<p>That sounds a bit overly dramatic. Doubt the professional medical office cancellations will last a long period of time. Could affect cash flow, but don’t see the practices rolling up their sidewalks at this point.</p>
<p>@emilybee: what if we put employees of homeland security on the front lines? It seems this is much more their problem/issue. They should be the buffer between a possible infected person and a healthcare provider.</p>
<p>Belated thank you to everyone who tried to answer my questions about why the nurses may be getting better and how treatment in a first world country differs from Liberia. </p>
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<p>More frustration on my part with how news is gathered and presented before important facts are verified.</p>
<p>The latest on the above situation:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/18/ebola-dart-station-dallas-monitoring/17503345/”>http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/18/ebola-dart-station-dallas-monitoring/17503345/</a></p>
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<p>Initial reports said she vomited on the platform and had a low grade fever.</p>
<p>The above linked article states:</p>
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<p>So which is it? I’d say spitting and vomiting are significantly different acts.</p>
<p>Forget Contagion . . . it’s Arachnophobia!!! <em>insert scream</em> 8-X </p>
<p>Glad to see Amgen stepping up to the plate!!!</p>
<p><a href=“http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81710140/”>http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81710140/</a></p>
<p>“what if we put employees of homeland security on the front lines? It seems this is much more their problem/issue. They should be the buffer between a possible infected person and a healthcare provider.”</p>
<p>Eh? I am really not clear what you are saying. You want the health care provider to give instructions to a Homeland Security employee on what needs to be done and have the Homeland Security employee perform the task? Seems like a pretty wacky idea to me but if you think it’s a good idea you should email your representative and suggest it. </p>
<p>“The latest on the above situation:”</p>
<p>Oy. </p>
<p>I just got an email from a friend in S Korea. Her bf is in Dallas this week (he is in the military stationed in SK) and he told her it’s “full scale insanity” in Dallas. </p>
<p>I’m out of town this weekend, and when I am in town, I am not omnipresent, in every corner of the city, but I have observed zero insanity in Dallas.</p>
<p>I wonder what he’s referring to in particular and if it’s related to that incident.</p>
<p>From Dallasnews.com:</p>
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<p>Just so frustrating…the way this is written, it almost seems like the woman wanted attention or perhaps is mentally or emotionally not 100% healthy.</p>
<p>But I have a big issue with the many false statements released to the public before all facts of the case were obtained. </p>
<p>“I wonder what he’s referring to in particular and if it’s related to that incident.”</p>
<p>I have no idea, only that it’s what he said. </p>
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Excellent question… why aren’t the ShoeNazis stepping up for cross-training and making a stab at an honest living?</p>
<p>They are too busy responding to our last bout of national hysteria.</p>
<p>Catapult, if you want to criticize the TSA as an agency, it’s a free country, criticize away. But frankly I think it’s totally uncalled for and petty to insult the workers who are only doing the job he/she was hired to do. </p>
<p>The price of airline stocks suggests that probably isn’t true.</p>
<p>With a little thought, you can imagine imagine where they may have to, though: the same people they’ve been looking for these last few years, the ones intent on bringing down a jet with an old ladies Depends or a bag of breast milk, decide to fly over an incipient Ebola patient. </p>
<p>The possibilities seem endless to me and would merit real hysteria. Likely even here.</p>
<p>I’m sure there a significant number of duly conscientious TSA employees performing a full days work, hayden. It’s the mission that’s the problem, as the post one minute after yours suggests.</p>
<p>Btw: kudos to you for remembering that I considered going with ‘catapult’ when I signed up years ago. You still keep up with Hindoo and the rest?</p>
<p>I was hoping this “national hysteria” brings down airline ticket prices. No such luck! Looks like 10-20% higher than last year.</p>
<p>Oil’s bumping $80 so we’ll have to start looking at the usual suspects, Igloo.</p>
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<p>No, no, and one more no! “Possible” means not diagnosed yet, and a “possible” case needs to get diagnosed or dismissed ASAP. I would leave the diagnostics to medical professionals, not TSA. As we already seen, arming even the honest, hardworking TSA people with a medical device does not do anyone any good because they lack the training and the skills needed to handle a medical device (In case anyone is wondering, I firmly believe that those X-ray scanners were in fact medical devices, and that’s why they were fairly quickly pulled from the airports while the public was given some fuzzy explanation that the software was inadequate). </p>