Posted on 10/16/2014 6:32:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'Who's the idiot with the clipboard?' Disbelief and panic as mystery man WITHOUT a hazmat suit helps second Ebola nurse board her plane to Atlanta, disposes waste and then climbs aboard (full title)
Man casually dressed in shirt and pants seen on TV walking with Ebola patient Amber Vinson
He carried a clipboard and walked alongside Ms Vinson and healthcare workers who were ALL dressed in Hazmat suits
He has been identified as a supervisor for Phoenix Air, the company that flew Miss Vinson to Atlanta
Miss Vinson walked onto the plane in Dallas and the man without protection also boarded the plane, flying with her to Atlanta, Georgia
Social media has dubbed him the 'clipboard man' -
As news helicopters swarmed over Dallas' Love Field on Wednesday evening to watch the second U.S. nurse to contract Ebola board a private plane bound for Atlanta, one lone mysterious man stood out from the pack.
Holding a clipboard and directing the transfer, the unidentified man seemed to be the only person on the tarmac without protective clothing, wearing just a button down shirt and slacks.
While Ebola is not an airborne disease, his presence so close to patient Amber Vinson's medical team sparked fears after he was seen grabbing a container and Hazmat trash bag from one of the workers' in full-protective gear and later boarding the flight.
He then flew with Vinson and the other Hazmat-suited medical staff to Atlanta and local television crews spotted him with the stricken nurse as she disembarked at the airport in Georgia to be transferred to Emory University Hospital.
When the plane landed in Atlanta, the man had still not donned any protective clothing and was seen openly interacting with Vinson and the other medical professionals caring for the nurse.
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I didn’t see him wearing any gloves when handling the bio-hazard bags. I wonder if he has had his bloodborne pathogens training this year. OSHA is going to have a cow.
Then everything was properly packaged. Like I assured for thirty years. Pick up any Ebola laden trash?
Also, an OSHA violation for handling a biohazard bag without protective gloves.
I never heard of it when I was doing it 14 years ago.
MY POINT EXACTLY!!
I'm sure this story will be investigated thoroughly by the MSM. /s
Us? The rubes? We get the “special vaccine”. The one loaded up with mercury, live cancer viruses, GMOs and other various goodies deigned to soft kill us immediately at the end of our productive years or sooner.
A candidate for the Darwin Award if ever I saw one. If I saw five guys in space suits handling someone on a gurney, I’d be more than a little worried about getting away from that scene!
“Will the flu symptoms increase the spread of Ebola?”
I’ll take a guess. First, I don’t think having the flu will make any difference if it goes airborne or not.
Having the flu first would probably keep one indoors and home and isolated, so that would help prevent spreading Ebola.
On the other hand, you may already be vomitting, coughing, etc. with the flu which would help spread Ebola when you first get it.
Ebola can survive for at least many hours in most cases outside the host. Up to six DAYS in some cases. So yes, one can pick it up from contaminated materials. Contaminated with bodily fluids that include spittle, sweat, cough and sneeze droplets, etc.
Reminds me of a H&S instructer I had once. He was out at the site and the guys were all doing there cleanup jobs. When lunch came around they cleaned up and got out of their suits.
One of the workers was found eating his sandwich back in the “hot zone” on a rock overlooking the creek!
“I thought that was okay because I’m not working.”
Probably the same mindset as clip-board guy.
I am guessing he is immune to Obola. Probably one of the survivors.
Either that or he is about to become the latest Darwin Award winner.
There seems to be so much stupidity with these people that, if I put on my tinfoil hat, it seems almost deliberate.
“I think that when you spread the Ebola around, it’s good for everybody.”
DANG!
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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