Administration. Mostly paperwork for cardiac surgeons. But I’m in with the clinicians and get involved with enough random shit that apparently I often seem like the right person to ask those sorts of questions.
FWIW, I do have a degree in biology and am taking grad courses at a shool of public health, so there’s that.
You might think, by the way, that being in the middle of an actual Ebola epidemic would make epidemiology lectures less boring. Somehow you would be wrong.
All my suspicions were true… Idiots
You’re still paranoid. Please isolate yourself from the world for 90 days.
Ahhh so a desk job. Got it. 
@Wil
Not that paranoid bro… No need for isolation. More bothered by the fact these fools were taking the situation to lightly. In situations like this one, they wait till the last minute to start getting hospitals ready to deal with this stuff…
If this shit was happening close by your area you would be a little precautious…
Bolded for emphasis. Dude, read some virology peer studies on ebola, as well as notations from when it first emerged and was identified. Look at the ppe that the studies on biohazards (ebola is level 4) state is MANDATORY for dealing with it, and look at what the cdc CHEERFULLY says is okay for use. All this stuff is still just a google search away, probably because the ptb think everyone is so stupid that they won’t do some reading on their own, and will just allow themselves to told what to think and feel. The media-approved experts (who have been instructed to minimize this so as not to cause a panic similar to the swine flu panic, which cost around 300 billion due to the ensuing economic slowdown) are the ones telling us things that are contrary to established precautions to be taken against ebola, while experts in other countries like Germany are expressing concern that those findings are apparently being disregarded, and we’re being told that Ebola has somehow become kinder, gentler, and easier to manage and contain upon reaching our shores. Look what it’s doing in Africa: Only one of these scenarios can be true for it to race through those places and infect so many people every week
1: Africans are living like Re5’s majini, eating raw bush meat and drinking bat blood, and their greetings consist of poop-sharing, surprise sex, and deep-tongue kisses, even for casual passers-by.
or
2: this shit is as easily spread as the common cold, making it far more dangerous, and accounting for how it seems to actually be spread more easily than the cdc claims. Virologists have said the only worse scenario is AIDS going airborne, due to it not killing you so soon, giving it more time to spread.
Based on what you’ve seen, which is more likely?
I have nothing to gain from you knowing a larger extent of the shit we may all be in for. I don’t get jollies out of scaring people. The media and those who control it want you calm and complacent, because if the truth got out, people’s reaction would disrupt a lot of business as usual. People would be stockpiling supplies left and right, causing shortages. Society would basically break down. People who think they have ebola would flood hospitals. That’s what the media is trying to prevent by not telling the truth. They hope to contain and possible eliminate the threat. The way things go in these situations is they fail, and only inform us when nothing more can be done and we’re on our own. Then comes the late, frantic attempts at stocking up, looting, riots, panic, etc. When more and more cases emerge in the upcoming months, don’t be surprised when what you’ve been told by the CDC and Frieden gets “walked back”.
Hospitals are the most profitable businesses in a lot of cities and towns where they are. When they charge 3 times what the hospital’s own price list says a procedure should cost, and the ridiculous-for-the-medical-field compensation of their executives, I don’t want to hear “budget constraints” as an excuse for not having the gear to fight this shit.
bet those Dr.s just leave them nurses hanging out to dry. Dang egomaniacs
Politics gets in the way with how the budget is distributed within each hospital.
I think I’d go more with “unprepared,” and “untrained.”
From going from being a normal nurse to treating a highly infectious deadly virus is being thrown into the deep end. And many hospitals don’t have the correct equipment or protocols yet… which is fucking worrying.
Is it time to start running away from Texas? 
MEDICAL RESEARCH ORG CIDRAP: EBOLA TRANSMITTABLE BY AIR - http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/14/CIDRAP-Confirms-Ebola-Transmittable-by-Air
^^WOW, for fucks sake. GGPO
FEAR! Front page of HuffPost:
http://i.imgur.com/ePWefG5.png
Amber Vinson, Dallas Ebola Patient, Says CDC Gave Her Green Light To Fly - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/15/amber-vinson-cdc-ebola_n_5993486.html
its time to run away from the world.
Ebola OP.
im legit scared for my health
AND WHY ARE SO MANY ACTS OF GENERALLY STUPIDITY HAPPENING? YOU WORK WITH AN EBOLA PATIENT AND GET ON A PLANE? WHY???
That article states that it can be transmitable, not that it is. Shit had me fucking scared for a while.
This isn’t new, however, the cdc lost points. I know they can’t start a panic on purpose or by accident , it would actually make things worse.
But whatever. Transmission rates are still at 2.5 per person. (Mathematically this is scary still.). Which means the vector hasn’t changed.
I have a 5230 3m mask but that wouldn’t be enough…
This was already proven and documented in 2012 in a Canada study involving monkeys in cages separated from each other on opposite sides of the room. Airborne transmission is why people are still getting infected while wearing the facemask and goggles. Lets see what else the cdc is lying about. Don’t think they didn’t already know this. Airborne transmission makes this the scariest of all vectors.
Doctors, nurses, local law enforcement, EMT’s, etc. and even hospitals are the usual first responders. EMT’s and law enforcement officers were the first ones on the scene immediately after the sarin gas terrorist attack in the subway of Tokyo, Japan. The hospital staff in Tokyo became first responders when civilians self admitted themselves after being close to the sarin gas attack.
EMT’s, local police, and firefighters were the first responders (and not equipped or prepared) for the 9/11 Twin Towers terrorist attack. We can have all the plans in place but we won’t know if it’ll work until something actually happens. Disaster preparedness and emergency management officials can only learn, mitigate, and prepare for the next attack, natural disaster, or disease outbreak.
Nurses are furious, may picket, over inadequate Ebola training - http://www.vox.com/2014/10/15/6982347/ebola-nurses-furious-inadequate-training
Dallas nurses cite sloppy conditions in Ebola care - http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Dallas-nurses-cite-sloppy-conditions-in-Ebola-care-5823351.php
The article states the Associated Press managed to get access to the Liberian Ebola patient’s medical records. That is a huge fuck up too.
No Obama, the protocols didn’t work. The CDC, hospitals, and hospital staff (nurses) noticed a breach of protocol. According to the nurses in that Dallas hospital, there was no protocol for handling Ebola patients.
Why does Obama look 20 yers older than I remember him looking?