shush, no politicis on the list. Apparently speaking about the
incompetence and perfidy of the government is now partisan politics.
Listening to the head of the CDC this afternoon certainly allayed my
fears. They have top men* on it. Top men*.
* Generic reference, includes individuals who, could be who could be
classified as women as well...
On 9/30/2014 10:28 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
I'm sure this is on everyone's radar now, but there is so much
sunshine being blown up American's skirts in the news tonight. We have
no worries, because this is the U.S. medical system? It was a U.S.
medical doctor that saw this guy in his office and sent him home on
the 26th so he could be in the public, symptomatic with what we now
know was Ebola, for a total of nearly 5 days (and is now in critical
condition). There are probably another handful of people he infected
in those 5 days, including (possibly) people at that medical facility
that sent him home. We just don't know it yet. And we'll have to wait
21-42 days to know for sure.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
Your top (U.S.) news story of the day?
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140929-dallas-county-health-officials-cdc-team-headed-to-dallas.ece?hootPostID=b260717dd73ff15c9eaa34b0cb970876
and here's a live traffic shot of roads leading out of Dallas:
http://goo.gl/hb3ffA
(Not really. That last part is my dark humor showing.)
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, here is your top news story of the day which probably won't be
mentioned on any news program.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola
This story pretty much commits the journalistic sin of "burying the
lead" which in my opinion is THIS:
CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Treatment and Policy) declares
that "Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an
aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of
experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important
feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings."
Earlier in the article they said, 'We recommend using "aerosol
transmissible" rather than the outmoded terms "droplet" or "airborne"
to describe pathogens that can transmit disease via infectious
particles suspended in air.'
Holy crap.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
I think it is somewhat amusing (but not) when we think that mankind
has everything under control and is at the height of their
technological and scientific prowess.
9/11 was one of those slackjawed days, as we watched two of the
tallest architectural achievements of mankind collapse to the ground
under a pretty low-tech attack, with so many innocent people inside
them. Another slackjaw day for me was watching on radar as Category
Katrina took dead aim at New Orleans and realizing that we were
looking at the real possibility of the destruction of an American
metro area. Yep. More or less.
And now, I'm slackjawed at the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The game is
over, people. This is going to kill hundreds of thousands of people
(at a minimum) before it is all said and done. And, if either of the
two strains currently going at it in Africa, mutates to be
air-transmissible we are looking at a world wide pandemic. Mankind has
no central authority to manage resources to fight a disaster like this
one. Ebola is currently killing at a rate of 80-85%. Male SURVIVORS of
Ebola are spreading the contagion through their semen for AT LEAST 7
weeks after the date of their infection. It is hitting in the area of
the world least able to deal with it.
This guy is right on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html?_r=0
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