EBOLA, too close for comfort

[billt]

The local news website Planet Princeton reported that Snyderman and others drove for takeout food last week.

They violated the quarantine to go to lunch?   

[kmitch200]

They violated the quarantine to go to lunch?   

Yep.
NBC put out a statement that "some of their crew" violated the quarantine.
What they/she failed to mention was that one was the Doc...AKA NBC's Chief Medical Correspondent.

[tombogan03884]

The best information I've ever found for the general public was in the Tom Clancy novel "Rainbow 6" .
At the time I read it I double checked it on line for accuracy and of course being a Clancy novel it is in language you can understand with out 8 years of Med school.
And NO, it is not generally airborne, unless projected like by a sneeze or cough.

[brushmore]

A local new station is devoting a half-hour to calming the panic that many of their viewers are experiencing by  doing a bunch of reports.

I have a little news for them.


Sometimes, panic is the correct response.

I don't think it's time to panic yet.  Being very concerned is certainly appropriate.  It is interesting that the family of the guy who came here with ebola aren't sick yet, just the nurses who took care of him.  That gives me hope this can be contained IF we are smart about this.  Unfortunately that's a big if because of a huge lack of leadership when it comes to the government.

[billt]

The disease itself does not cause me to panic. The Administration handling it DOES.

[Sponsor]

[PegLeg45]

The disease itself does not cause me to panic. The Administration handling it DOES.

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[Hazcat]

The disease itself does not cause me to panic. The Administration handling it DOES.

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[Solus]

It is frightening that I can even remotely see this as being true....

Report: CDC Told Nurse Who Contracted Ebola She Could Board Plane with Low-Grade Fever

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reportedly told Amber Joy Vinson, the second nurse at the Texas hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan to come down with Ebola, that it was okay for her to fly even after she told the CDC that she had a low-grade fever.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/15/Report-CDC-told-Texas-Nurse-Who-Contracted-Ebola-She-Could-Board-Plane-with-Low-Grade-Fever?utm_source=e_breitbart_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+October+16%2C+2014&utm_campaign=20141016_m122628767_Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+October+16%2C+2014&utm_term=More

[alfsauve]

I don't think it's time to panic yet.  Being very concerned is certainly appropriate.

I agree Brushmore.   

The real question is in something like this slowly developing contagion is when is that time?  Forget Ebola, consider any contagion, where is the line that takes a situation from mild concern to full hunker down mode?   At what infection level is it time to panic?

WHO has 6 phases of an epidemic and Phase 4 would seem to be the one that is the indicator we're in really deep do-do.  Widespread community outbreaks.  Or as they say.

The ability to cause sustained disease outbreaks in a community marks a significant upwards shift in the risk for a pandemic.

Now the problem is, I suspect governmental agencies will downplay and fail to report such a shift under the guise of preventing panic.

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[tombogan03884]

The disease itself does not cause me to panic. The Administration handling it DOES.

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Do any of you remember the TV mini series of Steven King's book "The Stand"  ?
I don't see this administration acting any different than they did in that.