<p>It does. When MSF collapses, THAT’S when we should start panicking. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/health/ebola-nurse/index.html?c=homepage-t”>http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/health/ebola-nurse/index.html?c=homepage-t</a></p>
<p>Not sure if this has been posted:</p>
<p>"(CNN) - Nina Pham was the first person to catch Ebola on U.S. soil, and now, 13 days after testing positive, she has been declared free of the deadly disease.</p>
<p>Her first order of business will be to hug her dog, Bentley, she said Friday."</p>
<p>Edit: HImom has already posted the same on post 2189.</p>
<p>Can you imagine?</p>
<p>There seem to be some here who focus predominantly on the impact on their wallet. Fortunately there are other more humanitarian folks who look at the bigger picture.</p>
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<p>You have got to be kidding.</p>
<p>Losing one’s business is a pretty serious side effect of an Ebola outbreak. You must have a job in the health care industry which is secure for life. Lucky you.</p>
<p>I wonder if Nina & Amber will be plasma donors for future victims. I imagine they have to get back to a certain baseline of health first – wouldn’t the internal bleeding caused by Ebola leave you anemic? Or maybe they never got to that stage.</p>
<p>And btw, since some of you seem to think that Ebola in the US is NBD, well guess what? The disease may not be a big deal, but the financial fall out is, so why are you not concerned about that?</p>
<p>“Alpha female?”</p>
<p>Strangely enough, no. She considers herself below every other human and dog. I don’t know why, we treat her like a princess. But she has a personality change when it comes to special toys and chewies. She sits there jealously guarding hers, and eyeing the other dogs, making a run to get the other one if the dog stops paying attention for an instant.</p>
<p>I’ll have to go to the pet store and get the Kong one and the translucent one. They would love it if it involves food!</p>
<p>Secure for life? Thats the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Healthcare is one of the least secure industries right now when a third party controls their income. Elsewhere, your costs go up, you raise your price. Doesn’t work in healthcare.</p>
<p>All that hysteria about all the doctors offices in the medical complex neat the Dallas hospital-- have any of them gone out of business as all the doom and gloom suggested? I’ll bet they are plenty busy.</p>
<p>Nope, doctors and hospitals will never go out of business.</p>
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<p>I think that is a really unfair- almost willfully dishonest- representation of the POV presented here. Please reference a post where someone, anyone, said Ebola in the US is “NBD.”</p>
<p>I didn’t say anyone said it, I said some people “seem to think” it. And yes, that is exactly how it comes across.</p>
<p>Re: post # 2228:
Tell that to AW, who forecast it in one of his doom and gloom posts. And sorry, but you are wrong. I know personally several Drs who have gone out of business, as well as hospitals that have shut their doors… Providers couldn’t afford the overhead and malpractice insurance. And Medicare loves to run doctors out of business by doing an audit, and if they find some I that wasnt dotted or T that wasnt crossed on some form, they demand reimbursement for years-- and now they have the capacity to suck it right out of the practitioners bank account. Including any personal accounts they also have at that bank. Practitioners go out of business trying to fight bogus claims of impropriety raised by third party auditors who get paid by how much money they suck back from the provider.</p>
<p>But this is off topic. </p>
<p>I would completely support a govt funded isolation for people who have deployed to work with patients in West Africa, and those who are treating people in this country for it. They are put up at a comfortable place for three weeks, with pay, and monitored often. I’d bet you that most people would be happy to do it as a paid and relaxing vacation, while protecting others. It would be much cheaper than the fallout from exposing others, and certainly safer. If someone gets sick from non medical contact with these healthcare workers, it’s going to change the picture entirely.</p>
<p>I don’t think ebola is a big deal in the United States.</p>
<p>How many cases are there in the United States? I don’t mean cases where Americans contract the virus overseas. How many cases develop in the United States?</p>
<p>Really, dstark? Why don’t you read the thread. Including the title.</p>
<p>In the Doctors Without Borders protocol for returning volunteers, it says that they will see that returnees are accommodated within 4 hours of treatment facilities if they don’t live near one.</p>
<p><a href=“Ebola: "Fighting a Forest Fire With Spray Bottles"”>http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-protocols-staff-returning-ebola-affected-countries</a></p>
<p>dstark, 2 so far, both nurses from Dallas, both better now.</p>
<p>Bay , you arent getting ebola. </p>
<p>This virus is a BIG deal, even in the US, if not only as a direct result of infection, but the secondary effects of fears, both the rational as well as the completely irrational. </p>
<p>However, I certainly am not going to ignore the vast amounts of information which has been gleaned about how this virus acts and how it is spread just to satisfy people who “seem” to crave drama because the truth isn’t exciting enough for them.</p>
<p>If you want to maintain your low risk of contracting ebola, you can volunteer your time and assistance to MSF related activities stateside. Why not walk the walk instead of talking the talk.</p>