I don’t care how many badly-done instructional videos the CDC sends out. How brain-dead do you have to be to take the gloves off first??? In fact, how brain-dead do you have to be not to take the gloves off so they’re inside out when you do? These are highly-educated, highly-trained people, and my husband and I knew better when we were just treating our dog for skunk-spray this summer. Stupid gets old really fast.
We don’t know the circumstances at this point. Obviously mistakes were made, and may have been made at more than one level/location. Humans are flawed; they make mistakes. In this case, the mistakes have been costly, but they are not near epidemic proportions. Also, especially for deadly diseases, mistakes are more often made at the beginning of the disease’s appearance. After we get more familiar, new regulations become easier to follow, as they become more commonplace.
Whether Ebola, which is new to the US, or smallpox, which used to be common but hasn’t been seen in so long, are the cause, the first people to be exposed are the most at risk. Unfortunate, but true. This does not mean that the disease cannot be contained, nor does it portend an epidemic.
Biocontainment is a lot like dealing with nice things like VX nerve agent. The diffrence is that if you screw up removing your protection with VX, in less than a minute or two, you’re dead. But, the exact same “safety procedures” apply.
I’ve been around nerve agents, as has my son, and am still ticking. What I learned around chemical agents DID carry over into my years as an EMT, my son’s time as a paramedic and dealing with chemical agents, and my daughter’s training as an RN…
But I’ve also spent time around marketing, interpretation, and generating propaganda (for good or bad) and what I see in America today is a panic spread freely, and it has a lot to do with the mentality behind drinking way too much TEA. (It’s the mindset, not the details.)
OmqR-IV.0 over 9 years ago
1st. – Stop the hysteria. Then get some real advice:
How to avoid catching Ebola.
dogday Premium Member over 9 years ago
I don’t care how many badly-done instructional videos the CDC sends out. How brain-dead do you have to be to take the gloves off first??? In fact, how brain-dead do you have to be not to take the gloves off so they’re inside out when you do? These are highly-educated, highly-trained people, and my husband and I knew better when we were just treating our dog for skunk-spray this summer. Stupid gets old really fast.
dogday Premium Member over 9 years ago
Given what goes on around here lately, if that zombie is looking for brains, no worries: he’ll starve to death in short order.
Observer fo Irony over 9 years ago
@Dogday88How can a dead zombie starve to death?
I Play One On TV over 9 years ago
We don’t know the circumstances at this point. Obviously mistakes were made, and may have been made at more than one level/location. Humans are flawed; they make mistakes. In this case, the mistakes have been costly, but they are not near epidemic proportions. Also, especially for deadly diseases, mistakes are more often made at the beginning of the disease’s appearance. After we get more familiar, new regulations become easier to follow, as they become more commonplace.
Whether Ebola, which is new to the US, or smallpox, which used to be common but hasn’t been seen in so long, are the cause, the first people to be exposed are the most at risk. Unfortunate, but true. This does not mean that the disease cannot be contained, nor does it portend an epidemic.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Biocontainment is a lot like dealing with nice things like VX nerve agent. The diffrence is that if you screw up removing your protection with VX, in less than a minute or two, you’re dead. But, the exact same “safety procedures” apply.
I’ve been around nerve agents, as has my son, and am still ticking. What I learned around chemical agents DID carry over into my years as an EMT, my son’s time as a paramedic and dealing with chemical agents, and my daughter’s training as an RN…
But I’ve also spent time around marketing, interpretation, and generating propaganda (for good or bad) and what I see in America today is a panic spread freely, and it has a lot to do with the mentality behind drinking way too much TEA. (It’s the mindset, not the details.)
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
^Hmm, related actually to your last paragraph; how many cancer cases, and rate of disease, since Bush dumped all those DU munitions on Iraq?