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originally posted by: GreenMtnBoys
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I'll tell you one thing if I have to take care of an Ebola patient they better pay me hazard pay of atleast a couple $100 an hour on top of an increase in my life insurance policy!!!! Or I'll quit!
originally posted by: Olivine
a reply to: MagesticEsoteric
Hello to you neighbor.
I found what I was looking for: the tail numbers and subsequent flights of the 2 planes Mr. Duncan was aboard in Dulles & Dallas.
abc7.com...
originally posted by: Kentuckymama
What rights do we, as parents have to keep our children home when we feel the situation is too close to home? When I walked my kids to school this morning I asked the principal about this. She said that as far as she knows nothing has changed or been said. Kids are allowed to miss 3 schools days during the school year with no excuse from the doctor. After that, the truancy officers will be notified. They are pretty harsh in this area about truancy. They have been known to put parents in jail for kids missing too much school.
If cases began showing up near my area, I want my kids home. Will they put me in jail for this? Would exceptions be made due to the seriousness of ebola?
originally posted by: sickofitall2012
a reply to: GreenMtnBoys
If I was still working in the hospital, there is not enough shift-diff In the world to get me to go in his room.
And your right about the isolation. When more get sick, and they will...many more
In fact, there aren't enough isolation rooms, at least not the kind of rooms they need for this virus.
I keep thinking of his first ER visit. He was symptomatic. No one knew for 2 days,so that means that it was business as usual for 48 hours. I know how lax the ER housekeeping can be. I tested my fellow techs one time by marking a pillow case in xray with a sharpie mark. I went in the next day and the mark was still there. 24 hours worth of patients and no pillow case change. Inexcusable. I reported the incident, but no one cared.
Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson, asked why no agency had removed the contaminated goods, said that was not his department’s responsibility. Members of his staff went into the apartment only to administer tests and not to help the family clean up, he said.
Dallas officials say they are coordinating the response to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. -- but with a healthy dose of federal help.
"Dallas County will act as the lead agency," he said, "but when it comes to planning, those decisions will be made with the advice and counsel of our partners with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]."
originally posted by: Jansy
Some extremely intelligent individual said, on one of the (disturbingly MANY) Ebola threads, that arrogance is what will be the undoing of the USA.
I heartily agree. I think our government officials thought (complacently) that it "can't happen here."
"Oh, look at our infrastructure. Look at our advanced technology. We are so much better equipped than those poor 'third world' African nations. We're fine. No problem."
The events of the past couple of weeks have proved that mindset wrong, at every turn. Because the fact is, this country is just as full of stupid, careless, or ignorant people as Liberia or Nigeria or Sierra Leone. (I won't even go into criminally negligent...but I could.)
I think it is up to individual citizens to do whatever they can to protect themselves. I'm grateful for ATS because I know that here, amidst the doom porn and wild conspiracies, I will get good information. I've always believed in being prepared for emergencies and crises. I am not as worried about the virus itself (my immune system is so frail that if I was exposed I'd probably be dead in a week) but I do worry about the breakdown of services, the panic and the violence that I fear are coming because of this...
Thanks everyone for trying to stay on top of this and sharing as much information as you can!
originally posted by: Doodle19815
a reply to: stellawayten
How do you sanitize a school though, really? Could you possibly imagine having that job? Books, undersides of desks, seats, bathroom nooks and crannies, walls, pencils, toys for the younger ones, and on and on....
I can't believe anyone did a thorough job in under a week.
originally posted by: Olivine
Well this attitude could be a problem:
Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson, asked why no agency had removed the contaminated goods, said that was not his department’s responsibility. Members of his staff went into the apartment only to administer tests and not to help the family clean up, he said.
From this dallasnews article
Yet, in an article posted by the same news outlet only 5 hours earlier, I read this:
Dallas officials say they are coordinating the response to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. -- but with a healthy dose of federal help.
"Dallas County will act as the lead agency," he said, "but when it comes to planning, those decisions will be made with the advice and counsel of our partners with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]."
I don't want to pile on, but this is ridiculous. Two many "partners" and "teams" and not enough decisive, pro-active decisions and actions being taken.