Posted on 10/18/2014 7:36:43 PM PDT by richardskeet
GALVESTON, Texas - A helicopter met up with a cruise ship with a Dallas health care worker aboard who is being monitored for signs of Ebola in order to take a blood sample for testing prior to the ship's arrival Sunday in Galveston.
Carnival Cruise Lines released a statement Saturday which read, "Today we were advised by Texas health officials that they felt it was necessary for the health care worker currently on Carnival Magic to submit a blood sample for testing prior to the ship's arrival in Galveston tomorrow morning. As a result, a helicopter rendezvoused with the ship late this afternoon to facilitate the transfer of the sample.
(Excerpt) Read more at click2houston.com ...
...Their PM did more right than wrong, imho. But, there will be political repercussions, no doubt in my mind about that....
like the repercussions against mexico for detaining our marine???
You, too.
Repercussions for going against the administration. If the administration does not oppose then it’s ignored, downplayed or rewarded.
TY
Thanks for the link. It is as I thought it would be...a nightmare.
No ping list. If someone else wants to pick it up, feel free. I’ve just been commenting as it comes up while I work.
We’ll see by what greets the ship in Galveston tomorrow, as others have noted.
The whole travel industry stands to be ruined because nobody will stand up to that monster in the White House.
If she/he is not showing symptoms then why did the helicopter that picked up the blood not take the lab tech? The virus is supposedly not contagious if there are no symptoms so the flight crew would not be at risk. However, if there are symptoms they stand a chance infecting over 4000 people. This is insane.
I read on Twitter that Belize put out a statement saying 2 people with symptoms. Also read a few others say “ with symptoms”! It’s a cover up!
I’ve read the same thing about “showing symptoms” on Twitter, the CDC & our government may try to hide the truth, but with so much social media, people are going to talk.
(denied entry at Cozumel, MX also.)
But how did a lab supervisor get contaminated in the first place? personally handled sample, or? Did she tell anyone on board the ship where she worked and is this just hysteria or is she really symptomatic?
“A drop on a special platen by a technician and put in a little box would have allowed the world’s top virologists to examine it with google glass in hi-def first person immersion virtual reality”
Yes, blood like the Sampling Machine at the Hospital, it cannot be LEGALLY used for diagnosis, because it is not FDA-approved.
Meaning, they haven’t spent millions of dollars greasing enough palms in government to get it done.
It’s been said that either she or her husband shared the fact that she had handled vials of Ebola, some went so far as to call it bragging but some have taken issue with that description. And, that this led to considerable upset among passengers when she became symptomatic. Other reports say she’s not symptomatic. I can’t say how a lab supervisor could have gotten exposed, but do know that she was being monitored for exposure.
Report out of Belize says she’s symptomatic, our government saying nothing!
Stunning how much travel is being done by the very few nurses who came into contact with Duncan. Most nurses I know don’t make enough to take cruises more than once or twice per lifetime, and few fly around the US with any regularity... and yet we have 2 of the health care workers he was in direct contact with already flying to Cleveland and taking a week-long cruise, exposing thousands and thousands of people within days of their own exposure. Kind of coincidental, don’t you think?
Bttt
Your average nurse, with overtime, can easily hit $100K/YR. Overtime is plentiful. Many nights I have to say no to the nightly plead to come help out. A good average salary for RNs in Dallas is about $32-35/HR and Dallas has a much cheaper cost of living than many other major cities. (You can find 3BR houses in nice neighborhoods for $150K or less, for example.)
Add to that many nurses are either single with no kids ($100K for one person to live on is quite a bit of disposable income), or they typically live in dual income homes.
Now.
Add to that the fact that most nurses work 3 - 12/HR shifts per week and you have people with a decent degree of disposable income with quite a bit of flexibility in their work schedules (you can work S/M/T one week and Th/F/S the next and have 8 days off without taking a vacation day.)
Now. Add to THAT the fact that neither Frontier Airlines nor Carnival are particularly exoticly priced exclursions, and it’s not so far fetched as you would think. It doesn’t surprise me at all.
I’m a RN in Texas, we homeschool, and I do the “8 days off without taking a vacation day’ thing once a month. We normally take short vacation trips. In the last six months, we’ve dug for diamonds in ARK, gone to the Basketball playoffs in San Antonio, Moody Gardens in Galveston, Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels several times (annual passes) Disney World, Atlantic Coast, etc. Go back few years and we’ve been to Las Vegas, Sea World San Antonio (we used to have annual passes), Mexico, Laguna Beach CA, Disneyland, Springfield Mo, Kansas City KS, OK City OK, and on the Carnival Triumph out of Galveston. I like to travel. We’re going back to Disney World next month (we have annual passes).
Well, tests will tell.
So far the Dallas "outbreak" seems to be dying out.
We'll know in another 21 days....
Or perhaps we will know 'more' by Nov 5, 2014.
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