OT - Anyone in Dallas ? EBOLI

dldawes1

Anyone with an update on the Eboli event?

Any firsthand info on happenings in the city?

Griffin

Geez....what do you want to know? There's updates on every tv channel and every radio station every 2 minutes here in Dallas. I can tell you I don't have it. And that my wife was at Presby (the hospital where its all going down) just last week, but in a different building than the one the guy was in. Nobody is panicking. Seems like the news is just blowing it all out of proportion.

Griffin

To me, its gotten to the information saturation point now. As soon as somebody says ebola, my mind kinda tunes it out and wanders off in a different direction. Actually, my mind does that a lot. Damn ADHD. oh look...a squirrel!!

Lmidkiff

I live in Dallas. I agree the news blows it out of proportion.

BRush00

Just heard on the news this AM (up here in Canada), that the patient was "languishing in a room for hours, with several other patients, prior to being quarantined"..... I suppose that could've just meant the ER waiting room, but still kinda creepy to hear.

Griffin

I told my boss last week that I wasn't feeling good and I thought I should probably go home. Thought it mighta been a touch of the ebola. He laughed and said get back to work.

 

Skiddymarker

Griffin said:

I told my boss last week that I wasn't feeling good and I thought I should probably go home. Thought it mighta been a touch of the ebola. He laughed and said get back to work.

You have to watch what you say, know your audience, as you know your boss obviously. Some folks don't have much of a sense of humour. 

Years ago I was returning from Chicago to Toronto with some defective armature parts to be evaluated in our Canadian Lab, when asked what they were by the Canadian border guard, I replied in my best just had three beers on the plane voice, "machine gun parts". So began the longest two hours of my life. 

Stay safe and hope all is going well with Mrs. G and her bump.  

nolaegghead

The fear mongers are beating on drums.  This type of virus will not spread in a developed nation.  I'm glad the CDC recanted it's absolutely inappropriate statement to the effect: "protocol was broken by the nurse, but we don't know what that was".   EF whoever that was.

Griffin

@Skiddymarker yeah, I know my boss. We joke around. When USA was playing in the World Cup I handed him a copy of that Day Off To Support USA Form that was going around. He got a laugh out of that as well. He said that if he could leave, then I could, but since he couldn't, get back to work.

Eggcelsior

nolaegghead said: The fear mongers are beating on drums.  This type of virus will not spread in a developed nation.  I'm glad the CDC recanted it's absolutely inappropriate statement to the effect: "protocol was broken by the nurse, but we don't know what that was".   EF whoever that was.


@nolaegghead, it has already spread, twice. True, that "broken protocol" statement was wrong because there was no protocol in place to begin with. Also, the current issues are nowhere near what the media is purporting them to be. Hell, malaria has killed more people in a month than Ebola ever has and they aren't crusading over that.

The most recent patient was on a full flight the day before testing positive, with symptoms. Think of how many common surfaces are on a plane and in the airport. All that nurse had to do was wipe her moist brow then touch the seats as she got off, a handrail in the jet way, or the bathroom handle. Person behind her touches the same spot on that seat and then rubs the sleep out of their eyes. Yes, this method of transmission risk is low but nevertheless, it exists.

Smokinpig

Crazy that she was even allowed to fly. You would think for safety sake that would have monitored these folks for the 21 days and not allowed them to travel for this reason alone.

GATraveller

Channel 2 Action News has confirmed that the plane that carried the latest Ebola patient flew in and out of Atlanta before being decontaminated in Cleveland.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0PijNCEwo  

KSwoll

Just sayin, lol

Legume

For the most part, those first three are choices, what we do to ourselves.  death by a thousand cuts (or grams of fat, sugar, cigarettes, ...)

fishlessman

i thought it was a new online head shop
eBowla

bud812

Load the bowl & they will come... At least my friends will.  

henapple

I thought it was Spanish for a bowling alley. [-X

Eggcelsior

henapple said:

I thought it was Spanish for a bowling alley. [-X

I misread it as E-boli.

Mail-order Stromboli via the internet.

Bojangles

Eggcelsior said:

henapple said:

I thought it was Spanish for a bowling alley. [-X

I misread it as E-boli.

Mail-order Stromboli via the internet.

I thought it was the lovechild of Ebola and E. Coli....

Someone alert the media!!!!

RANT!! RAVE!! PANIC!!!!!!

JohnInCarolina

stemc33

Legume said:

For the most part, those first three are choices, what we do to ourselves.  death by a thousand cuts (or grams of fat, sugar, cigarettes, ...)

If it wasn't those top three, it would be some other top three. Fact is, we'll all die from something. Pretty sure it's unavoidable. I'd rather die eating a jelly donut than die stressing out about the top three causes of death. The undo stress staticians place on people is ridiculous. Germs scare the crap out of me jelly donuts do not.

nolaegghead

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!  AIEEEEEEE!!!  NOOO NOOO NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Skiddymarker

nolaegghead said:

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!  AIEEEEEEE!!!  NOOO NOOO NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Damn Nola - brought back an acid flashback of Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock - The Vietnam song.....I'm still laughing! )

nolaegghead

HAHAHA....That's my Owen Meany voice!  It's true though, immortality hasn't been discovered yet, (nor disproven).

logchief

"Be the first one the block to have your boy come home in a box"  Orange Sunshine, Window Pane or Blotter?

Skiddymarker said:

nolaegghead said:

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!  AIEEEEEEE!!!  NOOO NOOO NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Damn Nola - brought back an acid flashback of Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock - The Vietnam song.....I'm still laughing! )

"Be the first one the block to have your boy come home in a box"  Orange Sunshine, Window Pane or Blotter?  I'm hearing enough Ebola, not sure it'd make a good rub or smoke.
:-\"

Eggcelsior

stemc33 said:

Legume said:

For the most part, those first three are choices, what we do to ourselves.  death by a thousand cuts (or grams of fat, sugar, cigarettes, ...)

If it wasn't those top three, it would be some other top three. Fact is, we'll all die from something. Pretty sure it's unavoidable. I'd rather die eating a jelly donut than die stressing out about the top three causes of death. The undo stress staticians place on people is ridiculous. Germs scare the crap out of me jelly donuts do not.


Nothing really scares me. Something is going to get me tomorrow or at some point in the future. I like to be aware of what could get me because it's fun.

JohnInCarolina

Every day is a gift.  The time we all have is short.  

Mickey

Getting close to home. Three Belton Texas schools closed today for cleaning over Ebola flight a few days ago. Belton is between Dallas and Austin on I-35. 5 miles from me. This was on local tv late last night after a conference show telling about local Belton Family on airline with nurse. I own 10 apts in Belton and called my insurance guy. There is NO coverage for this if your house is hit like you are seeing. Talking about a cleaning bill in the $50k mark if you want to protect yourself.

dldawes1

Time will tell.....it always does !!!!

I was just curious how much local folks were reacting. 

I'm pretty laid back, yeah I did the window pane, blotter, and Mr. Natural (along with anything else that would get me high), back in my younger days...I guess there's not much that excites me anymore !!!!

Thanks for the input folks !!

StillSmoken

Reminds me of the SARS problem in 2002-2003.

tksmoke

Obviously, not enough marketable news in the world.  Media needs to sell CocoPuffs.  Ebola is serious, but c'mon now.  I'm not cancelling my travel plans to ground zero - leaving Monday.