The Hospital trade unions are going bananas.
Watch closely, folks. This is how it will play out here sometime in the future, with the liability attorneys following CLOSE behind.
The plan is to get the global population down to 1/2 million people, any way they can do it.
I predict this is not going to go well for Spain
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...
It should be pointed out (via Brit press this morning) that Spain only has ONE hospital in the country with level-4 capability, as prescribed for containing Ebola situations. Oddly enough....this was NOT the one that they sent the Spanish priest to. It begs questions about incompetence of both medical management and political leadership who allowed this to occur.
But onto a bigger issue. There are only ten hospitals in the US which have level-4 capability. You can figure that once you get past three-hundred patients...our system is then maxed out.
Finally, the Brit press says that the Spanish authorities finally came to the apartment/house of the nurse involved here....twelve hours after they noted she had Ebola...to sanitize her place. I could understand it taking three or four hours to get the “A-team” in place, but you have to wonder if they even had a process ready to go. And then....they killed the nurse’s dog as part of the process. An odd note...does Ebola cross over into animals? And if so...would we have to put down entire herds of cattle in the US, if got out of control?
Waiting for that who thinks “fudge it. I’m taking out as many as I can.”.
How does a nurse not call the hospital and tell them that she has been immersed in Ebola and thinks she may have it, and tell them that she needs to either be told a time to come in directly for examination, or at that she needs to least be kept apart from everyone while waiting to see a doctor.
Don’t these people read a newspaper, talk to each other, discuss what is going on in the medical news and discuss what huge thing they have been personally involved in during the last week and so on?
The lack of people talking to each other is really surprising.
This is from today at Dallas' THPH with their potential second Ebola patient. They should be well practiced in Level 4 protocol. Note to the doctor/nurse's hubby - no neck hickies for the wife tonight.
I finished up a week in the hospital last Monday PM. Got a sense that the hospital folks are sweating this. I had Fox news playing in my room. Staff members kept slipping in to watch TV with me instead of Oprah next door.
Ebola seems to cause incredible stupidity in health care workers.