Ebola hysteria

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<p>I’ve been wondering if immunocompromised people such as HIV have a higher risk with Ebola. </p>

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<p>I suspect that by definition, please with low immunities have more susceptability to nearly everything. This is why they have to be especially careful of their health and exposures. I know that folks I am close to who have low immunities get sick more easily and for much longer periods of time than their “healthy” friends who have regular healthy immune systems.</p>

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<p>AND influenza is contagious before the patient even has a clue. </p>

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<p>Ebola is not like AIDs. For one thing, if a person contracts HIV, without treatment that person can expect to live an average of 8 years. Without treatment, a person who contracts Ebola can live around 2 weeks.
Another difference is transmissability. HIV is 12 times more transmissable during the first 2.5 months of infection. Ebola is exponentially most transmissible at the patient’s point of death.</p>

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<p>All this video of following patients as they are moved from facility to facility in vehicles to/from the airport reminds me of the OJ chase! Geez. </p>

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<p>OJ sounds right! While I find all this helicopter taping somewhat creepy, I think it is a good idea to let the public see this to control the fear and prevent conspiracy theory succeptible people from thinking she has been cut into pieces and used for medical studies, lol. </p>

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<p>New excuse for calling in sick… “gee boss, I would come in but I am nauseous and vomiting and bleeding from several orifices…”</p>

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<p>"…But I think I have Ebola" might be a bit less TMI. Eek.</p>

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<p>… “and my aunt’s best friend’s cousin’s brother-in-law knew someone who just got back from Liberia.”</p>

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<p>Forget Liberia . . . my aunt’s best friends’s cousin’s brother-in-law just returned from the midwest and may have flown on the same airline as the nurse with Ebola (not flight just carrier)</p>

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<p>If that doesn’t work try “My mom grew up in Akron.”</p>

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<p><a href=“http://wapo.st/1yIXr8j”>http://wapo.st/1yIXr8j&lt;/a&gt;

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<p>Dr. Richard Besser, an ABC News medical correspondent, who had been in Liberia, was asked by Case Western to give a speech by Skype.</p>

<p>Not looking so foolish now that 800 people are being monitored because of symptomatic Amber flying to Cleveland. </p>

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<p>But as of yesterday, only 7 confirmed. At this point, that matters, too. I’m sure most of us here agree with monitoring. It’s the wise path at this point, while we wait for info.</p>

<p>A lot of medical decision making is based on likelihood and charting out possibilities based on what-ifs. Those what-ifs aren’t conclusions.</p>

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<p>vent or not, it is a fact that ebola was brought here artificially, it used to be a law that would have taken care of such artificial spread to this country, this law was singlehandedly abolished about 4 years ago. There is no hysteria, there is a realization of the fact (but it is only one in many anyway) that the instition that was created for the sole porpose of protecting the citizens of the country, is refusing to do so, simply does not care to do so, becuase the purpose of it has changed…We just have to expect nothing, forget even demanding, it is no use…</p>

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<p>Say what? How was it brought here artificially? It was transmitted by an ill human.</p>

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<p>The president just appointed an Ebola Czar, Ron Klain, a lawyer who used to be VP Biden’s chief of staff, and whose resume includes involvement in Solyndra.
I think my hysteria level just went up.</p>

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<p><a href=“CBS News Poll: Public confidence in CDC nosedives since Ebola - CBS News”>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-confidence-cdc-nosedives-since-ebola/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This poll shows the complete loss of confidence in CDC. Is that hysteria or common sense?.</p>

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<p>It’s a public reaction. Does that mean it’s accurate? How many of those polled even know what the CDC is? And notice that churches and police aslo showed declined confidence.</p>

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<p>Don’t fret, scholarme. He sounds qualified to take this on.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/politics/ebola-czar-ron-klain/index.html?hpt=hp_t1”>http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/politics/ebola-czar-ron-klain/index.html?hpt=hp_t1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;