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[Warpy]

1. Can we shove enough dynamite up the asses of Republicans

to get them to OK funding to get prepared to deal with this thing?

Doubtful. They don't care if we die. They don't care if they die. They won't vote to fund anything but the military as long as the Koch boys own them.

[kestrel91316]

3. What they don't realize is that the science deniers will probably die

in greater numbers than science advocates if push comes to shove and we have a lot of Ebola here. So there's that to hold out hope for........

[Warpy]

14. Oh, they'll all run squealing like piggies to the hospital

every time they have a bad case of indigestion unless they're the fanatics who try to pray everything they don't like away.

It's not an easy disease to catch unless you have close contact with a sick person. That means spouses and nurses are at the greatest risk.

After all, Mr. Duncan's family are two weeks out with no sign of the illness. The passenger who became ill on a flight to Nigeria didn't even have his seat mates catch it, although the flight attendant who had to muscle him off the plane did.

The problem with exposure to the blood and body fluids of a patient sick at home is that it seems this is so infectious that the smallest exposure can kill.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. " flight attendant who had to muscle him off the plane did. "

I think I missed hearing of this..can you point me to more info, pls. Warpy?

[bravenak]

2. As long as we die together.

[pinboy3niner]

4. I'm calling Congress! Right fucking now!

What exactly am I calling Congress about again? I must have missed it.

[Brother Buzz]

6. DUzy!

[pnwmom]

15. Restore the huge funding cuts taken from the CDC and the NIH. n/t

[KMOD]

5. wow

not exactly the replies I expected.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Perhaps you might have specified not prepared for what?

The midterms? Ebola? Isis? The Zombie Apocalypse? You haven't given us a clue.

[KMOD]

8. my apologies

Ebola

[pinboy3niner]

10. Oh, damn!

I had my money on the Zombie Apocalypse.

Welcome to DU!

[Brother Buzz]

12. I'm totally prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse

[Quixote1818]

9. Were we prepared when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Was it over when the French hit us on 9/11?

No it wasn't over!

Hell yes we can get prepared!

Hell yes we can do better!

Nothing is over until we decide it's over!

[Brother Buzz]

11. "What the hell are we supposed to do, ya moron?"

[pinboy3niner]

13. Forget it

He's on a roll.

[AverageJoe90]

16. Actually, we are indeed prepared, for the most part.

I would argue, instead, that it's not preparation that's the problem, but, rather, resources; the fact that only 4 hospitals anywhere in this country have all the most optimal tools in dealing with rare but highly diseases such as Ebola, should be a little concerning to most, I would think.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. or that 80% of nurses polled said they had NO training yet for Ebola.

Several weeks ago, National Nurses United began surveying registered nurses across the U.S. about emergency preparedness. Most of the nurses are telling NNU that their hospital is not prepared for the Ebola virus.

In updated preliminary results from nearly 700 RNs at over 250 hospitals in 31 states released Friday:

80 percent say their hospital has not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of patients infected by Ebola
87 percent say their hospital has not provided education on Ebola with the ability for the nurses to interact and ask questions
One-third say their hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection (face shields or side shields with goggles) and fluid resistant/impermeable gowns
Nearly 40 percent say their hospital does not have plans to equip isolation rooms with plastic covered mattresses and pillows and discard all linens after use, less than 10 percent said they were aware their hospital does have such a plan in place
More than 60 percent say their hospital fails to reduce the number of patients they must care for to accommodate caring for an “isolation” patient.

http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/national-nurse-survey-shows-hospitals-still-not-prepared-for-us-ebola/

[HereSince1628]

19. Well, we have plans. Was it Robert Burns who wrote

The best laid schemes o mice and men gain oft agley?