Official Ebola update thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get that. I'm not the vomit poster, btw. I did post that Jeff should provide his opinions under a different username. What was the point of creating this site if not allowing free discussion? I do agree there should be management, and generally he is reasonable, but this issue has struck a nerve with him...and, that okay. But, it's incredibly unprofessional to both manage a site and interject your strong inion constantly. I think you need to Log in under a different name with the commentary. It is professional and facilitates the process of free speech. Plus, you also don't have people thinking your deleting posts because you don't agreed with the content. It's unprofessional.

Anyway, I don't want to derail the conversation. I won't mention this again.

Unprofessional? This is Jeff's forum, he can do what he thinks makes sense.

Sure, he can do what he wants. And then other people can think it's unprofessional. He has the license to do what he likes, but that doesn't mean he's right.

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Gaslighting again I see. It doesn't work on me

Being alert and aware protects us all. In criminal situations, in health situations, in everyday situations. That's just fact

I agree that being alert protects us all. But, posting multiple times about an African vomiting is not simply being alert. It is being pretty crazy. You never answered my earlier question. Do you plan to post multiple times about every African that vomits from now on?

I posted on e. You deleted it. I posted again. You deleted it. But you left that fact out in your post. Because you love to gaslight

You keep using that word (or maybe you and others). It does sound fancy, I'll give you that, but an anonymous discussion board is not the right place for it. Go to a different board with user names, maybe you can get gaslighted there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Fox) news anchor delivers the Ebola message everyone needs to hear. Seriously.
http://fox13now.com/2014/10/16/news-anchor-the-ebola-message-everyone-needs-to-hear/

Well it is already outdated. They are now saying the one healthcare worker had symptoms before she got on the plane. To say this is the end is ignorant. I agree that there is no need to panic, but there is also a more than zero percent chance that someone else in the US could get it. And unless people start taking this seriously and taking personal responsibility to not expose others, it could spead here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, why are you deleting posts about the Nigerean man who died on route to JFK after vomiting profusely in his seat?

Please post messages like this in website feedback so that this thread does not get derailed (as it would have been by posting a message about a guy who didn't have ebola).

Determined by a cursory walk-on by CDC, not testing

Are you going to react this way to every African that vomits from now on? Nigeria has had practically no ebola. This is part and parcel of your and others' attempt to generate mass hysteria of the "everything has changed" style illustrated in a post above.

It's here now. Being prepared means staying alert. There is now a lecel 4 virus in this country that the CDC is being lax about. Everything has changed, my friend.

Being alert and aware is always prudent. In bars, in your home, walking outside. Read The Gift Of Fear. It highlights the balance quite well

Had i not been alert and aware, I would have not noticed the man following me in my car. I would have not noticed him hide his car behind a gas station row of pumps when I deliberately stopped at a populated convenience store. Worse yet, I could have dismissed my rational mind as hysterical, and allowed him to follow me home. Police tell me that without my rational, quick thinking, I would be a statistic today. So yes, I trust myself

Liberals like yourself adopt a laisse faire attitude about everything, making you dangerous to others. Then you gaslight by saying they are hysterical. I can't imagine being so naive - or so cruel

Listen, I consider myself liberal, at least in many aspects,
and I totally agree: handling too lax on all fronts, CDC all over the place, Frieden needs to go, etc etc.
Totally appalled by the handling of the entire outbreak domestically and internationally.
I'm for limiting travel to the three countries, slowing/holding visas until this is under control, REAL quarantine (not I will call you from my vacation kind of quarantine)

Obama should have been on the phone with European leaders and through whichever countries flights are routing to the US MONTHS ago, not last week, to discuss how this could be handled in scenario X. The Europeans are just as behind.

I want to appeal to all sides to stop bringing "liberals think this" and "conservatives think this" into this!

It is really counterproductive - you need to think of what's the best way to handle this, and go forward, from a virology standpoint, not a political standpoint.

Same here.

[Anonymous]

He knows people are aware that Obama is a huge mistake and he is not the kind of person to accept that he has been wrong to the very core of his beliefs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nurse who flew may have had ebola symptoms for *days* before flying.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/us-ebola/index.html

Thomas Eric Duncan had symptoms for days and was in close quarters with many family members, but none of them got sick. It doesn't seem likely that casual contact on a plane in the very early stages of the illness is too much of a concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He knows people are aware that Obama is a huge mistake and he is not the kind of person to accept that he has been wrong to the very core of his beliefs.

LOL. Hit your head when you fell off the crazy bus this morning?

Just SFTU so we can go back to our regularly schedule freak out over Ebola. Message Jeff directly if you want to harass him.

[Anonymous]

Ebola scare at the pentagon. Taken to Virginia Hospital then Inova Fairfax. On arlnow website. I don't know how to look link it.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:He knows people are aware that Obama is a huge mistake and he is not the kind of person to accept that he has been wrong to the very core of his beliefs.

I have been criticizing Obama from nearly the first day of his presidency. I have never hesitated to criticize him when it was deserved. In this case, however, I applaud his refusal to bow to hysterical mobs. That said, I am now declaring a moratorium on political posts in this and other threads in the Health Forum. There are multiple ebola-related threads in the Political Forum. Some posters have been posting the same thing in both places. From now on, talk about the disease here and politics there. I will be removing posts that do not conform to these guidelines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ebola scare at the pentagon. Taken to Virginia Hospital then Inova Fairfax. On arlnow website. I don't know how to look link it.

http://www.arlnow.com/2014/10/17/developing-ebola-scare-at-the-pentagon

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He knows people are aware that Obama is a huge mistake and he is not the kind of person to accept that he has been wrong to the very core of his beliefs.

I have been criticizing Obama from nearly the first day of his presidency. I have never hesitated to criticize him when it was deserved. In this case, however, I applaud his refusal to bow to hysterical mobs. That said, I am now declaring a moratorium on political posts in this and other threads in the Health Forum. There are multiple ebola-related threads in the Political Forum. Some posters have been posting the same thing in both places. From now on, talk about the disease here and politics there. I will be removing posts that do not conform to these guidelines.

Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

What's up with all these ebola healthcare workers going to far and away places
http://wtop.com/267/3724126/Health-care-worker-who-handled-Ebola-specimen-is-on-cruise-ship

[Anonymous]

Another healthcare worker is being quarantined on a cruise ship. This is like a bad movie!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nurse who flew may have had ebola symptoms for *days* before flying.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/us-ebola/index.html

Thomas Eric Duncan had symptoms for days and was in close quarters with many family members, but none of them got sick. It doesn't seem likely that casual contact on a plane in the very early stages of the illness is too much of a concern.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ebola scare at the Pentagon now: http://www.arlnow.com/2014/10/17/developing-ebola-scare-at-the-pentagon/

Patient is at VHC.

The article says she had visited Africa recently. Africa is a huge continent, I hope they at least clarified what part of Africa.

I can't imagine what this years cold and flu season is going to be like.

The article said Sierra Leone -- center of the Ebola crisis