Another ebola goof, imho

[bae]

Let me axe Mr Bae this hypothetical quession, sence he is an Ivy-League First Responder and Actuary: What are your chances, statistically, of survival if you were in a car accident in Monrovia after getting stung by a bee and on the way to the airport to take the first flight to the USA--on a Malaysia Airlines flight hit by lighting over shark-infested waters? And---the on-board meal was PIZZA--piping hot, pepperoni, sausage and Canadian bacon & piled high with ooooey-gooey mozzzerrellla cheese? Then, what would your odds be? Just Curious.

Not enough information to develop a proper model. For instance, is celiac disease a potential issue, what with the pizza and all?

I still root for the Cleveland Indians, so there's *always* a chance.

[flowerseverywhere]

Well many people cared for the first ebola patient. The hospital was totally unprepared and it does not look like experts who had experience dealing with the disease were on site. Despite following the protocols given to them two nurses were infected. All of the experts say before symptoms there is little risk of infection. No other person who treated this patient and subsequently these nurses has become symptomatic.

Common on sense is to follow the protocols, learn from the mistakes the Dallas hospital made. Now an experienced team is to be dispatched immediately to an infection site.

Here is scenario #2. If someone tests positive for ebola immediately quarantine any possible person who came in contact with them. Shut down the subway or airport. Evacuate every other patient from the hospital. Lock in all the workers. If necessary station armed forces to keep the people in. Ban all flights from anywhere overseas. Shoot to kill at the southern border or by sea anyone trying to get into the country as they might have made their way to the US through an alternate route. Close the Canadian border. Accept no produce, food, electronics or consumer goods from overseas. Close the ports.

Where is the line to be drawn as to what is common sense? Listen to the news hysteria or disease experts?

[flowerseverywhere]

By the way, I worked in San Francisco as a nurse while they were figuring out Aids. There was all kinds of crazy going on. For an interesting story about aids read a very informative book by Abraham Verghese "my own country".

Perhaps some good good will come out of all of this coming to our shores. Vaccines and medicines are now on the fast track. Think of all the suffering that can be potentially avoided.

[befree]

....so happy to hear that the 2 Dallas nurses are doing well!