Ebola patient in Texas has died

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Anonymous wrote:possible new case in TX: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/08/patient-frisco-ebola-suspect/16922477/

OMFG. So that huge statement of going in without protect clothes on could get this guy killed. I hope it's something else. FFS. just stop with the political correctness already. Because of course if he responds well to treatment because he got in early then who knows how Jesse Jackson will spin that.

By the way - everyone yelling he didn't know it was ebola. Ok fine - why the hell wouldn't he have said "I WAS WITH A PERSON WHO DIED OF MALARIA" on first hospital visit? MALARIA MALARIA MALARIA!!!! That would have gotten some attention too.

Sigh....

You can't catch malaria from another person.

No way you can justify your MALARIA MALARIA post no matter how you try and re-spin it.

Seriously, check your reading comprehension. No one is "spinning" anything. Someone retorted with a sigh and someone else responded that malaria isn't catching. What's with the eye roll?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain the "political correctness" issue? Germs don't follow politics.

They don't --but this disease is hitting African countries. If we have flight bans- we are racist

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You morons, it DOES NOT MATTER if he knew he was infectious or not. He can kill millions of Americans either way.


How can he kill MILLIONS of americans? Are you on crack?


Are you? Look at the projections for the countries in West Africa.


How about look at a map and see that the United States is not in West Africa?

The projections for west Africa are not that bad. This is easily controlled and projections for world wide Ebola is 20k by November....that's out of billions of people.

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Anonymous wrote:possible new case in TX: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/08/patient-frisco-ebola-suspect/16922477/

OMFG. So that huge statement of going in without protect clothes on could get this guy killed. I hope it's something else. FFS. just stop with the political correctness already. Because of course if he responds well to treatment because he got in early then who knows how Jesse Jackson will spin that.

By the way - everyone yelling he didn't know it was ebola. Ok fine - why the hell wouldn't he have said "I WAS WITH A PERSON WHO DIED OF MALARIA" on first hospital visit? MALARIA MALARIA MALARIA!!!! That would have gotten some attention too.

I have recently spent a lot of time with several people who have non-communicable illnesses. If, for some reason, I suddenly needed to go to the ER with a low grade fever and upset stomach, it would never occur to me to tell the E.R., oh, and by the way I recently visited my mother who has osteoarthritis, and one of my students is suffering from hay fever, and another has a sprained ankle, because I know that none of those illnesses are contagious. Neither is malaria.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain the "political correctness" issue? Germs don't follow politics.

They don't --but this disease is hitting African countries. If we have flight bans- we are racist

I suppose that's one way to look at it. Another way is that banning flights could worsen the already horrific situation by making aid even more difficult and by bringing panic to the people there. If large numbers of West Africans truly believe that hope is lost in their countries, then they will flee by any means, especially illegal ones. Does that seem like a good idea?

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How are they despoing of his body.

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http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-sponsored-by-five-119078/special-precautions-will-be-taken-with-12843300/

Thomas Land, a north Texas funeral director and an official of the Texas Funeral Directors Association, says there is a clear set of policies to follow.

"No embalming will be performed on individuals who have died of Ebola, and the casket will be hermetically sealed," he said.

The decision has been made to cremate Duncan's remains, officials said. The cremation will destroy the remaining Ebola virus, which will make it possible to return his ashes to his family.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain the "political correctness" issue? Germs don't follow politics.

They don't --but this disease is hitting African countries. If we have flight bans- we are racist

I suppose that's one way to look at it. Another way is that banning flights could worsen the already horrific situation by making aid even more difficult and by bringing panic to the people there. If large numbers of West Africans truly believe that hope is lost in their countries, then they will flee by any means, especially illegal ones. Does that seem like a good idea?

Except you can keep flights open for emergency personnel and medical aid.

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Anonymous wrote:possible new case in TX: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/08/patient-frisco-ebola-suspect/16922477/

OMFG. So that huge statement of going in without protect clothes on could get this guy killed. I hope it's something else. FFS. just stop with the political correctness already. Because of course if he responds well to treatment because he got in early then who knows how Jesse Jackson will spin that.

By the way - everyone yelling he didn't know it was ebola. Ok fine - why the hell wouldn't he have said "I WAS WITH A PERSON WHO DIED OF MALARIA" on first hospital visit? MALARIA MALARIA MALARIA!!!! That would have gotten some attention too.

I have recently spent a lot of time with several people who have non-communicable illnesses. If, for some reason, I suddenly needed to go to the ER with a low grade fever and upset stomach, it would never occur to me to tell the E.R., oh, and by the way I recently visited my mother who has osteoarthritis, and one of my students is suffering from hay fever, and another has a sprained ankle, because I know that none of those illnesses are contagious. Neither is malaria.

I don't know. If entire villages were dropping dead after hanging out with the one person who had hay fever, I might drop that nugget of information.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope people remember what this man did that resulted in his infection. He is dead today because he helped try to obtain medical care for a dying pregnant woman who was turned away from the hospital. He may or may not have known she had Ebola, but either way it was a pretty noble thing to do. What a tragedy.

Was he noble when he lied on the airport screening form prior to comming to the U.S.?

Was he noble when he failed to tell the hospital during his 1st visit where he had been and what he had done?

Was he noble when he returned to the apartment, while sick, and exposed the 5 children from 4 different school systems to his Ebola symptoms?

Sorry, he isn't a hero to me.

He wanted to LIVE.

So do tbe kids he deliberately exposed. Selfish. Evil

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Anonymous wrote:who is going to pay for his treatment?

Compassion and humanity are alive and well, I see.

Your compassionate politics is what has put this country in danger. Not so compassionate after all.

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Fair enough. But the family, who is possibly alleging sub-standard care, knows the details, and knows he was offered and given an experimental drug because they had to give consent. So first glance for the family should look pretty damn good.

Unless he gave consent himself (could have been before he took a turn for the worse). Still, the family must know. I suspect they didn't think anything was wrong with his treatment until Jesse Jackson told them there was.

Absolutely agree. It's so frustrating…let the family grieve and keep them out of that bullshit.

From what I read (will try to look later for link) he was not responsive at the time and the family had to actually give the consent.

I am no Jesse fan, but this not true. The family has been expressing concerns about his care for at least 3-4 days.

Wrong. They were expressing concern that they could not visit him (and when they saw him on camera they decided they coudn't deal with it) and that information was not being given. Because we have HIPPA in the US and his "family" is actually not.

Concern they could not visit? Clueless or stupid? Definitely dangerous

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Progressive Democrat, Dr. Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr., has also made it about race. Specifically, that whites created Ebola as a bio-weapon to kill Africans.

Hahahaha! Thanks, I needed that laugh.

Obama respects and is friends with him. So kinda nit funny, but very telling

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Anonymous wrote:possible new case in TX: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/08/patient-frisco-ebola-suspect/16922477/

This is no bueno. If you are the guy to deliver a quarantine order to the potential ebola case, wouldn't protective gear be a sensible consideration? :/

It was reported, again, that parents would not let their kids go to school with the child of the County Judge who reportedly entered the apartment without protective gear and rode in or drove the vehicle transporting the family to their new lodgings. One kid may have returned. I am all for demonstrating compassion and appearing calm. But the Judge's behavior was truly moronic-seeming in light of the fact that some experts have said, whoa, we can't rule out that this disease could be more easily passed along than we had assumed. I assume that the parents who removed the kids and the removed kids themselves have been the subject of endless ridicule. I never knew that Dallas was so dysfunctional.

They aren't. Luberals are.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain the "political correctness" issue? Germs don't follow politics.

They don't --but this disease is hitting African countries. If we have flight bans- we are racist

And there are about $100k worth of donated medical relief supplies sitting in a US port waiting to go to Liberia but you know what's holding it up?

Liberian politics. Petty third world Liberian politics. Google it.