Breaking : The EBOLA PATIENT - Kent Brantly in route to US now. Will land in hours.

Here we Go!

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled ebola infected masses of coagulated blood boil infested humans begging for death as their organs melt away.

You betcha!

[link to hospitals.findthebest.com]

Holy shit, the plane flew over my community. Out taking a walk in the neighborhood and noticed a gray Gulf Stream style plane fly over and wasn't heading towards McCollum, it was in the path of dobbins. This was perhaps 11/11:15

holy shite. how secure can the trip from airport to hospital be? my god. God help us. This could be it. The ultimate Smite.

Are they going to parade him around the countryside?

Have him Spew some vomit and explosive diarrhea on folks?

Ohhh yea. I've seen this movie scenario before. Hopefully it works out and he gets cured and its all flowers and fucking peachy. This does sound like a bad idea all around. I swear its like the shotcallers all get around and are like "Alright folks what can we do here that would make the least amount of sense? I want the most retarded fucking decision we can come up with. I'm talking window licking retarded."

Watching CNN...it's already on the streets. Brantly is in an ambulance and it's on a major highway.

they should crush and melt that ambulance

Well, they have to cut back on the American population some how. First they killed all the good virus scientist now they are going to kill us.

Wow 20-30 minute drive, watching this now live, hope they don't have an accident. I'm sure they've thought about that and have it covered.

Wait, wouldn't you just love to be the next guy to ride in it with just a badly broken leg or something?

Me too...unreal we are watching Ebola willing brought to us.....

Prayers.

OR be the $9/hr ambulance employee having to de-contaminate it. WOW

There is a difference between "airborne" and "droplet" transmission as far as communicable diseases.


Airborne particles are less than 5 microns and can remain suspended in the air for quite some time, or mix with dust suspended in the air.

Droplets are >5 microns and will settle fairly quickly, so close contact (person has to be conversing closely with you, sneezing or coughing on you) is required for respiratory or (conjuctiva) mucosa transmission.

Ebola in the "wild" state is transmissible by droplets (and contact). Sure, it is a matter of semantics, as it still can be in the air, but not for long.

Only weaponized Ebola would be technically considered "airborne".


Here is a site that explains various categories of "precautions" used in the healthcare fields.


"DROPLET PRECAUTIONS
Droplet transmission involves contact of the conjunctivae or the mucous membranes of the nose or mouth of a susceptible person with large-particle droplets (larger than 5 μm in size) containing microorganisms generated from a person who has a clinical disease or who is a carrier of the microorganism. Droplets are generated from the source person primarily during coughing, sneezing, or talking and during the performance of certain procedures such as suctioning and bronchoscopy.

Transmission via large-particle droplets requires close contact between source and recipient persons, because droplets do not remain suspended in the air and generally travel only short distances, usually 3 ft or less, through the air. Because droplets do not remain suspended in the air, special air handling and ventilation are not required to prevent droplet transmission."

www.sfcdcp.org/document.html?id=68



BTW, I was a medical technologist in a microbiology lab of a large hospital when HIV came on the scene. There was a similar reaction on the part of healthcare workers and the public then.........no one wanted to take care of affected/infected patients. There were "witch hunts" and it was a time of fear in the medical professions.

What we learned is ........it is the folks you don't know are infected that will infect you.

We began using "universal precautions" across the board in health care after HIV and then MRSA came on the scene. Both to protect the healthcare workers and to prevent the spread of contagion to other patient's as heathcare workers go from room to room.

Before that era, people actually smoked in the lab while working with body fluids, some still used their mouth to pipette body fluids, and no one wore gloves when drawing blood, caring for patients, etc........we just washed our hands a lot. Our biggest fear at that time was contracting Hepatitis B in the lab.

Look how things have changed since then........Now we ROUTINELY wear gloves for any handling of blood or patient contact that might result in contacting body fluids. We wear gowns and masks with certain patient contact, and most hospitals routinely use various isolation procedures - (Standard or Universal precautions with all patients, the with certain patient populations, such as those with MRSA, RSV, Influenza, TB, VRE, etc, -Contact, Droplet, or Airborne precautions.)

Extrapolate how they may change now.........

Took it down 75, hate to be the oblivious people driving around it. Looks like the 4th car in the convoy is a Humvee. Couldn't see what exit they just took.

I will say I have NO problem with these Americans coming home to save their lives. I would expect the same. I really would. I just hope and pray that the people in charge of this are not fucking around. The human waste from the Ebola victims will be going down the regular sewers. Hopefully they will add bleach before flushing.....but, this Ebola is animal borne and rats live in sewers. This could be a real domino sequence.

Last Edited by rockhuff on 08/02/2014 12:11 PM

The fact that they are pushing a "100 percent" certainty that this is not a public risk, saying it is a bodily fluid transmit only.

-then their actions (ex: a tent bubble, negative pressure)

show otherwise.


Well then, this is like HIV, right? So why all the hoopla, why all the containment?


LIES thats why.

Witnessing the worst president in the history of the world!!!!! How does everyone who voted for this guy feel now? Did you ever think you'd see a day when we had a leader who would allow a disease like this into the country on purpose?

Same here.

unfucking real, they are driving him in a fucking ambulance down the highway??

Grady ambulance carrying it, looks like driver has some protection type suit on.

The Associated Press ‏@AP 1 min
BREAKING: US doctor infected with Ebola arrives at Atlanta-area military base; en route to hospital.

They are just trying to keep them comfortable, they don't know the outcome.

Actually just stopped at a stop light! No police escort!

Ambulance should have lights on and NOT stopping at lights. For God's sake. Sitting ducks for bad guys.

I'm just sitting here stunned, doctors claiming we are safe.....these two should have refused transport to the US....

Watching live. Regular highway and no escorts