jlf1961
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Joined: 6/10/2008 From: Somewhere Texas Status: offline
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If I point out a little known fact. There are four, repeat four, public hospitals in the US with the proper facilities to contain Ebola, in Nebraska, Montana, Maryland and Georgia — have the combined capacity to treat fewer than a dozen Ebola patients at one time. Now, I got a bit curious when I heard they were tracking down every passenger on that plane, so I called my doctor, really neat guy, worked with infectious diseases before deciding to move back home and become a gp. They tell you that ebola can be transmitted by vomit or diarrhea, a man who survived the disease can transmit it in his sperm, it can be transmitted by sputum (spit) and sweat. Due to the quick spread since the outbreak started, some specialists, while admitted the virus dies within hours of landing on a surface, it may be possible to be transmitted by droplets from a sneeze or cough. As for the bio hazard suits, each type of suit has a rating, and hospitals without the facilities to handle something of this magnitude rarely have the highest rated bio hazard suits. In point of fact, the only suit that is garuanteed to be 100% safe is one that is plugged into an air hose and is over pressurized. Leaving the containment zone, the suits are sprayed with three sterilizing agents, including bleach, a high concentration of hydrogen peroxide, as well as two others. The suits are removed as one piece and then immediately incinerated. Risk of accidental infection .00001 %. This outbreak is the largest in the known history of dealing with the virus, more people have been infected than all previous outbreaks combined. It has also spread faster than any previous outbreak. In the past, the virus had been contained within point zero where the first case was reported after WHO medical teams hit the ground. This outbreak spread past the point zero after medical teams were on the ground, and has jumped every attempt to contain it. At this point, I have a rebuilt deuce and a half and two pickups ready to get everyone in this house to another location. Call me paranoid but when something stops behaving like previous outbreaks, I get a bit concerned.
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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