Posted on 09/08/2014 10:36:26 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
On a scale of 1 to 10 how Effed are we?
yeah I saw that. The headline is a little alarmist, otoh the consequences could be enormous.
Ebola in the US? Hope you’re prepped!
So do I. In fact, my daughter is going to work for a hospital in Clearwater at the end of this month (in the ICU, even). That means my two youngest grandchildren will be in Florida in addition to three siblings and their children!
CDC is now under the command of the Regime, and the Regime fears having its efforts to destroy America hampered in any way.
A question for my fellow FReepers:
Contrary to the ‘Party Line’ the Regime is spouting today, Ebola CAN be contracted from airborne microdroplets - this means Direct Contact Is Not Necessary For Transmission Of Ebola.
What if someone you know were to be employed at a hospital caring for Ebola patients?
Should you avoid any dealings with the potential carrier?
This hospital is probably pretty high on the list of places you would expect this to surface.
Not for Ebola. I have been repeatedly assure by FR experts that Ebola can not occur within the borders of the United States.
“Our diversity makes us strong!”
(just keep saying it to yourself)
True. My question is why didn’t CDC report this negative test result first rather than allowing itself to be in a position of cleaning up panicky reporting?
If you walk into a hospital with Ebola, you cannot expose thousands. That is not how Ebola works.
Geez, one headline without a story attached, that appears to be false has really brought out the Chicken Littlest.
I and my family all live in northern Florida, north of Melbourne to the GA line and here in W. Florida, between Destin and Pensacola..................
-1.
Not screwed.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/09/08/4335832/miami-hospital-patient-tested.html
By Daniel Chang
dchang@MiamiHerald.com
A Miami hospital patient showing symptoms of Ebola was tested for the deadly virus last week, but the results were negative, Miami-Dade health officials said Monday.
The patient, who was not identified, had been admitted to the county-owned Jackson Health System last week, said Matthew Pinzur, a Jackson spokesman, who declined to describe the patient’s symptoms.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/09/08/4335832/miami-hospital-patient-tested.html#storylink=cpy
Seriously. Ebola isn’t it.
Anything is possible in this chaotic world.
Thus my ranking of a 2 to 3 (with 3 being a worst case ).
Now, if it is airborne that would be a whole other kettle of fish. And in my opinion, the thing that worries me is that there is some super virulent bug hiding in the forests of Africa or Latin America or South East Asia, which will jump into a human host and be the son of the Spanish Flu. Some airborne virus that though virulent has a long enough gestation period, and you could see a third of mankind dying. Imagine the Spanish Flu ...which in 1918 killed between 25 million to 100 million people, at a time when mass air transport and mega cities were Sci - Fi. In today's world, that would kill billions.
Anyways, Ebola is a bad M@#$#, but what should be worrying people is the next bug that crawls it's way into an airport.
Uh...no, being retested.
Monday, Sep 8, 2014 • Updated at 1:42 PM EDT
A potential case of Ebola was being retested at a Miami-area hospital after initial tests came back negative, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
If you don’t have medical coverage, and need a full checkup, just walk into an emergency room, sneeze and say you just got back from Liberia.
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