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Smoove_B wrote:

RunningMn9 wrote:This is a completely fabricated panic. It's insanity.

That's would I would expect an Ebola Czar to come out and say. Repeatedly. To news organizations. On TV. On the Twitter.

LawBeefaroni wrote:Ebolazar

LawBeefaroni wrote: Oh, and on the Surgeon General, he's probably to valuable to use on a sacrificial post like the Ebolazar.

Captain Caveman wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:Rip is right. Enough of this rationality and common sense. I'm going to panic instead.

The cool thing about disease-panic is that you don't leave the house to do it. Quite the opposite. That suits me just fine.

Ebola outbreak = more time for gaming? Blackhawk is right. Who's emphasizing the positives in all this? I'm going to start an Oprah-inspired Ebola appreciation diary.

Kraken wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote: Oh, and on the Surgeon General, he's probably to valuable to use on a sacrificial post like the Ebolazar.

So valuable that the job can stay open for another year and a half?

Smoove_B wrote:Never thought I'd live to see the day an Emergency Operations Center is activated because someone vomited near the Pentagon.

Brian wrote:

msduncan wrote:Good article from Huffington post.

Ebola is brilliant.
It is a superior virus that has evolved and fine-tuned its mechanism of transmission to be near-perfect. That's why we're all so terrified. We know we can't destroy it. All we can do is try to divert it, outrun it.

The Ebola virus is easily killed by soap, bleach, sunlight, and high temperatures or drying. Machine-washing clothes that have been contaminated with fluids will destroy Ebola virus. Ebola virus survives only a short time on surfaces that are in the sun or have dried.

RunningMn9 wrote:A local pharmacy was shut down today for an hour because they reported that a customer was showing signs of having Ebola.

An elementary school teacher in Maine has been placed on leave for 21 days, the incubation period of Ebola, after she visited Dallas to attend an educational conference. The teacher did not come into contact with anybody who had tested positive for the virus, but did stay at a hotel “exactly 9.5 miles away from Texas Health Presbyterian,” where Ebola patients have been treated.

Smoove_B wrote:

RunningMn9 wrote:A local pharmacy was shut down today for an hour because they reported that a customer was showing signs of having Ebola.

I see your local pharmacy story and raise you one teacher suspended with pay in Maine because she attended a conference in Dallas:

An elementary school teacher in Maine has been placed on leave for 21 days, the incubation period of Ebola, after she visited Dallas to attend an educational conference. The teacher did not come into contact with anybody who had tested positive for the virus, but did stay at a hotel “exactly 9.5 miles away from Texas Health Presbyterian,” where Ebola patients have been treated.

Sounds like it's time to just wall off Texas and cut our losses.

Smoove_B wrote:

RunningMn9 wrote:A local pharmacy was shut down today for an hour because they reported that a customer was showing signs of having Ebola.

I see your local pharmacy story and raise you one teacher suspended with pay in Maine because she attended a conference in Dallas:

An elementary school teacher in Maine has been placed on leave for 21 days, the incubation period of Ebola, after she visited Dallas to attend an educational conference. The teacher did not come into contact with anybody who had tested positive for the virus, but did stay at a hotel “exactly 9.5 miles away from Texas Health Presbyterian,” where Ebola patients have been treated.

Smoove_B wrote:

An elementary school teacher in Maine has been placed on leave for 21 days, the incubation period of Ebola, after she visited Dallas to attend an educational conference. The teacher did not come into contact with anybody who had tested positive for the virus, but did stay at a hotel “exactly 9.5 miles away from Texas Health Presbyterian,” where Ebola patients have been treated.

LawBeefaroni wrote:If it turns into a disaster, you'll pull his quote and by god, he hedged just enough not to be wrong.

Smoove_B wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote:If it turns into a disaster, you'll pull his quote and by god, he hedged just enough not to be wrong.

So, when you don't go to meetings, does that help build plausible deniability?

$iljanus wrote:

Smoove_B wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote:If it turns into a disaster, you'll pull his quote and by god, he hedged just enough not to be wrong.

So, when you don't go to meetings, does that help build plausible deniability?

Hey, Ebolazar doesn't do meetings. All information flows toward him via his minions.

Participants:
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Nancy Powell, State Department Ebola Coordinator

Secretary Kerry named Ambassador Nancy Powell to lead the Ebola Coordination Unit at the Department of State. In this role, Ambassador Powell will lead the State Department’s outreach to international partners, including foreign governments, to ensure a speedy and truly global response to this crisis.

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Ambassador Powell most recently served as U.S. Ambassador to India. Prior to that, she was the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources. Ambassador Powell previously served as the State Department’s Senior Coordinator for Avian Influenza, a role for which she was honored with the Homeland Security Service to America Medal in 2006.

A New York City hospital is running Ebola tests on a healthcare worker who returned to the United States from West Africa with a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, the city's Health Department said on Thursday.

Preliminary test results were expected in the next 12 hours, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement.

The patient being treated at Bellevue Hospital is a healthcare worker who returned to the United States within the past 21 days from one of the three African countries facing the Ebola outbreak, it said.

NYT wrote:Even as the authorities worked to confirm that Mr. Spencer was infected with Ebola, it emerged that he traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the subway on Wednesday night, when he went to a bowling alley, and then took a taxi home. The next morning, he reported having a temperature of 103 degrees, raising questions about his health while he was out in public.

A doctor who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients was in an isolation unit in New York City on Friday after testing positive for the virus, becoming the fourth person diagnosed with the disease in the United States and the first in its largest city.

Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, was quarantined at Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, six days after returning from Guinea, unnerving financial markets amid concern the virus may spread in the city. The three previous cases were in Dallas.
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Meanwhile, Nina Pham, one of two nurses infected with Ebola after treating the first patient diagnosed with the disease in the United States, was declared virus-free.

A nurse who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital after returning from West Africa where she treated Ebola patients said Wednesday that she's prepared to go to court if the state of Maine tries to quarantine her.

Kaci Hickox spoke to NBC's "Today" show and ABC's "Good Morning America" from Fort Kent, where her boyfriend is a senior nursing student.

She said she has so far abided by the state's voluntary quarantine. She had no contact with anyone Tuesday and will have no human contact again Wednesday, she said.

"I don't plan on sticking to the guidelines," Hickox said on "Today." "I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health."

Her lawyer told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Hickox isn't willing to cooperate further unless the state lifts "all or most of the restrictions."

Hickox, who volunteered in Africa with Doctors Without Borders, was the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine for people arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport from three West African countries.

Her lawyer told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Hickox isn't willing to cooperate further unless the state lifts "all or most of the restrictions."

Zarathud wrote:I have no sympathy as long as it's a reasonable policy with a scientific justification. You can't quarantine everyone, but a medical worker who was exposed? Yes.