Posted on 10/08/2014 1:44:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Government: So stupid it kills.
This is not going well.
Is this the deputy? Can’t post Getty so scroll down 10 pictures. On the steps being passed by with clean up crew in hazmat suits.
Do a search. Duncan has relatives crawling out of woodwork. Several nephews, more sons, a mother, a sister and her family, a brother, etc. in the US. He was probably the last of the tribe to come here.
May that shaking have been right after his wife punched him hard, very hard.
“Probably walked through the puke.”
Or he touched something in the apartment, then touched his face, mouth, nose or eyes.
Also, he could have had a microscopic cut or paper cut on his hands when he was handling the eviction paperwork.
The real scary thing about this whole Ebola mess (and ISIS, et al) is every decision made from now to November 4 will be politically motivated and decided solely on how it will affect the election - not on the best interests of the American people.
There’s a picture in the HTPH of the doctor/nurse pushing the deputy’s gurney with haphazard protective clothing with her neck fully exposed.
It appears that he has some days or hours ahead. Behind the following link, there are some symptoms that many of you haven’t seen information about.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3211695/posts
...interesting days or hours ahead, even.
Dallas sheriff’s deputies upset about being ordered inside Ebola patient’s apartment without protective gear
By Kevin Krause kkrause@dallasnews.com
3:58 pm on October 3, 2014
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/dallas-sheriffs-deputies-upset-about-being-ordered-inside-ebola-patients-apartment-without-protective-gear.html/
Five Dallas County sheriff’s deputies who were ordered Wednesday to go inside the Dallas apartment where an Ebola patient stayed are now worried about their health.
And the sheriff’s association that represents them is not happy about the department’s lack of preparations and precautions before sending them.
Sgt. Chris Dyer, president of the association, said a lieutenant, sergeant and three deputies went inside the apartment to serve the containment warrant that asked the occupants not to leave. The deputies accompanied the county’s health director, Zachary Thompson, and its medical director, Christopher Perkins, to the apartment, Dyer said.
The deputies were not wearing any protective gear, not even latex gloves, Dyer said.
The sheriff’s department later took their vehicles out of service for quarantine and asked the deputies to remove and bag their uniforms and boots, Dyer said. But the deputies were not given any information about potential health hazards, he said.
“These guys are really upset,” he said. “Their families are really upset.”
Dyer said he asked that they all be sent home. He also asked his department’s second in command for a meeting Friday between the deputies and county health officials to provide information about the Ebola virus and to answer questions.
Dyer said the meeting with Perkins and Thompson went well and that his deputies feel better about their situation. They will take their temperature each morning and night for several days and seek medical treatment if they develop a fever or other symptoms, he said.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carmen Castro said: “We are simply taking extra precautions so our deputies have some peace of mind.”
Dyer also went to the Ivy Apartments on Wednesday night but did not go inside. He said he and another deputy stood guard all night to monitor the complex and make sure no one entered or left. There were no incidents, he said.
Dyer said he thought federal health officials should have taken control of the scene immediately. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have contained the entire building, he said.
“That may be overkill, but what’s a little overkill when you’re talking about something as serious as this?” he said.
He said the sheriff’s department did not follow its own procedures about coming into contact with potentially hazardous material.
“We went out there with no protection,” he said. “There was a lot of miscommunication and lack of communication.”la.
That's an interesting question...
miscommunication. Seems to be the excuse all around.
The key word is “yet”. Duncan’s relatives are in the downslope of the probability curve of getting the disease but not our of the woods. It took him 9-10 days to get symptoms and they are in day 10. A couple more will be a big relief.
You have no idea so stop declaring medical dogma.
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...
There are many variations in the immune system that make some people more able to fight off diseases than other people. Other variations make people more susceptible to diseases than normal. Because of those variations, our species is highly likely to survive if something highly lethal and contagious were to wipe (almost) everyone out.
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