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Whoa!!
2/2 white, 0/1 black, ?/1 asian
What’s crazy is that they didn’t kill the dog. They will probably give the dog better treatment then that black guy Duncan.
This thread depresses me every time I come here. This disease scares me shitless
It’ll have you literally shitless, too. You’ll be so dehydrated you can’t even poop properly. And you’re most likely going to die in WORSE agony than that.
Do whatever it takes not to get this thing, trust me.
It is that bad.
I was getting on the B train and this chick started coughing up a lung. I jumped out. Them ebola magnets are going to have to step their zoning game up if they want to infect me.
this thread and ebola topic isn’t good for my state of mind
and if there were to be an outbreak in the uk, it’d most likely be local for me to, mega sigh
Another fucked up thing that’s going on is the medical records and the personal life of the nurse is being revealed to the public. That is an invasion of privacy and a possible HIPAA violation.
It wasn’t even her fault. She needed an enclosed, pressurized suit, not a facemask. NONE of our hospitals are set up to deal with ebola patients (or ANY third world airborne population-culling contagions) safely. That’s why people have been catching it here and in Africa. It IS airborne as proven with monkeys in 2012, and only pressurized suits with oxy tanks and multiple levels of decontamination will keep you safe. That’s how unprepared america is for this: disregarding previous research and listening to people and organizations doing their part to not cause a stain on the Pres’ “no domestic disaster” record, while they pray to god the lid doesn’t blow off and reveal what they’re doing.
You completely missed my point.
It wasn’t her fault that her name and medical records are being released to the media and public. The issue I’m trying to address is her privacy and medical records are now being compromised by the media. This is a HIPAA issue now.
I understand the public and the media want to know what’s up but her medical records/information are now being released all over the news. Unless she personally gave out the information to the media and/or there is a public safety exception to the privacy of someone’s health information, the hospital and the media should be investigated for HIPAA violations.
As for the CDC and mainstream news media, broadcasting someone’s medical records and referring to the patient by his/her name to the public is a irresponsible way to handle an epidemic.
All granted, but these are extraordinary circumstances. For instance…
"…or there is a public safety exception to the privacy of someone’s health information…"
Goddamn right.
The privacy of one person does not come before stopping a pandemic before it happens.
You people are moronic. Complain bout how people throw away their rights, or that we live in some dystopia, where government is intrusive. How quickly you act the same way when there’s a threat, proving you are no better.
My sister said one of her co workers got sick…they isolated her for “Ebola” over the weekend. False alarm, if there’s an outbreak, I’ll die. My brothers and sisters have no sense of proper medical hygine, and it’s a small place. Nice knowing you SRK.
NBC journalist and healthcare advocate who voluntarily quarantined herself in isolation because she and other crew members were exposed to Ebola…broke Ebola quarantine guidelines: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/nancy-snyderman-ebola-quarantine_n_5981154.html
In other words, she was in voluntary isolation for 21 days but determined that she was healthy enough and symptom-free to secretly leave quarantine and made public contact by going to a restaurant.
NOT A DOCTOR ANYMORE BUT A JOURNALIST AND HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE!
We may have a better healthcare system than a lot of other countries but we do have some dumb citizens out there who would do absolutely anything for media attention.
She must think she is a cut above the rest, jumping ship 1 week into her isolation. Ebola takes 2 - 21 days to show symptoms, are these even set in stone? Is she an expert on the virus? Hope NBC makes an example of her tbh.
That’s fucked up, I would expect that sort of behaviour from a child, what a piece of shit.
She’ll still have a job after this too
screening and voluntary isolation units rely too much on a good nature. people will lie and get out of isolation because its inconvenient or they’re thinking about themselves.
Freedoms HAVE TO get dialed down in this kind of debacle, crying out about civil rights be damned.
Precluding any spread of the virus is already impossible, so it’s flat-out pragmatism at this point if any suppression gets done.
…If restrictions aren’t eased after this shitstorm, THEN there’s a problem. For now, though, it would save lives that need not be risked at all, assuming actions of that sort were taken.
Right now, It’s a question of how heavily quarantined things get.
Not civil right infringements.
lol
No medical facilities outside of biohazard research centers have the necessary ppe required to safely deal with ebola.You’re right to be worried.
…I mentioned ‘pandemic’ to get across how bad it COULD get.
I didn’t want to be close to right about how it WOULD get, in the event that it gets worse.
**No chances whatsoever **should be taken about this, with that news in mind.
Holy fuck. You guys don’t even know.
hahaa, industrial chemists working with relatively innocuous chemicals (compared to ebola) wear more extensive ppe than european health workers (that chick is wearing her sunglasses, hahaa, dude is touching himself with his gloves - no seals from ppe to skin, dust mask instead of breathing air, need multiplelayer of gloves to properly degown). I wouldl be surprized if US counterparts dont take more reasonable precautions (we had video of the transfer of ebola patients from africa to atlanta and they had more appropriate ppe and took more appropriate precautions, apparently). Still think the US has substandard health care system?
also the classical and everpresent example of fearmongering leading to an unnecessary, irrversable erosion of rights with popular support? check.
hahaa
"irreversible"
Yeah, no. That’s not how it works. lol