Ebola!
Posted on 10/30/2014 1:46:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Update: This story now has a happy ending. Just around the time this article went live — about 20 hours after nurse Kaci Hickox requested a pizza — a Bangor Daily News reporter tweeted this photo of the pizza being delivered. The company apparently did indeed get the Maine police's sign off.
First, it was Kaci Hickox, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders, who was held in quarantine at Newark Airport when she returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa — even after she tested negative for the disease twice. She is now in quarantine at her house in Maine for no apparently good reason, and was trailed by police Thursday when she went on a one-mile bike ride.
Now, it is Hickox's pizza is being held captive. ABC News reports that a local pizza place called the Moose Shack (it gets 2.5 stars on Yelp) would like to send Hickox a pizza. This is a very thoughtful thing for a local business to do for a nurse who helped battle a vicious pandemic.
While Hickox told reporters last night she would enjoy a pizza, it still hasn't been delivered. This is because the Moose Shack is still "in contact with the police department to see whether they can deliver a pizza." We're now at about 20 hours since the ask was made — and no pizza.
Yes, we've learned that Ebola can be transmitted in ways we didn't expect before this outbreak had begun. But it is literally impossible to imagine how Ebola could be transmitted in this particular scenario, which involves a health worker who has twice tested negative for Ebola and a pizza delivery person who has not recently traveled to West Africa. The risk of transmission is non-existent because nobody involved in the exchange has Ebola.
This is arguably the height of absurdity in how the United States has treated returning health care workers. Hickox came home from a harrowing experience and she just wants to get a pizza from a local place that she likes. And for some reason, the Maine police's response is not a clear yes, of course you should have access to a comfort food. So, hurry up and do the right thing, Maine: let Kaci Hickox have a pizza.
Make that 42 days.
I tried to think of a way to say that whiteout being chastised..You did it
Thank you I agree..F her and her selfish self-centered being
That article has ignorance up and down the print.
There is an incubation period of at least 21 days, where you show no symptoms and you test negative.....but you can still have it.
Idiots. She should be forcibly quarantined and the Dr. was negligent and should be in prison and or stripped of his medical permit.
Neither does he but its to late hes screwed no matter what the outcome of this,,,,,She gives the “C” word new meaning and he needs two grow some and let this B go
With all due respect to Jim Thompson, better California than Texas for Abortion Barbie. Hope she’ll take Jorge P. “La Raza” Bush with her too.
I’d pay money NOT to see it. Has to be a modern version of gazing at Medusa. Turn to stone at a minimum.
And if she does get Ebola, she’ll blame it on something they put on the pizza.....
I’ll bet the leftists are fuming over the “abortion Barbie” appellation. A far cry from most of us, who got a chuckle or a grin from their calling Sarah Palin “Caribou Barbie”.
Either way...he's not attending school right now but doing it on the web and no one has said anything about work.
Laying bets right now that she makes one of O’Bozo’s Maine fund raisers tonight....
Photo op, anyone?
“I believe she is a purposeful plant. These commie/LIBs will stop at nothing.”
She certainly is telling gov’t to bleep-off, without any consequences. Not a lot of people get away with that in America these days.
She did a presentation..."Contact Investigation of Healthcare Personnel to Maternal and Neonatal Tuberculosis"...Clark County Nevada.
Bet she was doing the same thing in Africa...not nursing or helping but research for her next paper.
Given what I know about MRSA, I can state unequivocally she’d be on her own, in that regard, for at least one year.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
I actually agree - as long as the pizza guy puts the pizza down more than 6 feet away from Kaci, he’s cool.
Gawd - I love Whataburgers...
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