With the Threat of Ebola...

[KiMB00P]

Since the Ebola virus has been found in the US and with the infected count doubling every 3 weeks, how bad does it have to be before you refuse to go to work? Hypothetically if you were a healthcare worker/provider?

I'm a pharmacy tech in a retail pharmacy.. If an outbreak occurred in our home country, would you ride through it? Risking yourself and your families to help others?

I'd hope that my corporation would provide hazmat suits xD But I highly doubt it..

 

[amoret]

Since it takes direct exposure to bodily fluids I'm not much worried about it. The main reasons that the spread has been so bad in Africa are cultural differences (personally bathing the bodies of relatives before burial,) hygiene, and lack of treatment facilities.

 

[eyerhere]

I dont think that direct bodily transfer of fluids is exactly true. If it is why did they wrap his car in plastic and powerwash the balcony infront of his apt. They just want to avoid the hysteria that would follow if we were told the truth. I think anybody coming from any part of africa should be quarinteined before being allowed into usa. I also think if an american is stupid enough to go there even for the right reasons, if they get ebola they should have to stay out. We can send anything they need.

 

[oxygen thief]

There's no reason to freak out.

 

[supertrunker]

Don't share drip tips?

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[DPGoyo]

Scary stuff!!!!

 

[wonkeypickle]

lol just the "scare of the year", personally i don't find this one as enthralling as swine or avian flu, but still fun enough to pop on the news and kick back

 

[Completely Average]

I dont think that direct bodily transfer of fluids is exactly true. If it is why did they wrap his car in plastic and powerwash the balcony infront of his apt.

First, it's not transfer of bodily fluids, it's contact with bodily fluids. Their fluids do not need to mix with yours like aids. Holding the sweaty hand of an infected person is enough to be infected yourself.

Second, sweat and vomit are bodily fluids, and touching a car with his sweaty hands or vomiting on the balcony leaves infected fluids behind for others to come into contact with.

 

[nyiddle]

LOL.

I love all the Ebola hysteria. It's like, humbling.. Or endearing or something. Even smart people are scared over this junk. Does nobody remember every year, EVER?! Your odds of dying from the flu are FAR higher than your odds of even coming into contact with Ebola, let alone succumbing to it.

 

[HauntedMyst]

In light of ebola, I for one, am not gonna get black out drunk again and risk waking up in the monkey cage of the Lincoln Park Zoo again with an adult female silverback stroking my hair and signing "You're my sweet sugar baby" to me again. I don't need another monkey loving disease. The rash from the last one lasted weeks. On top of everything else she didn't take the break up well. I told her, "Its not you baby, it me! I just don't think the whole cross species thing works in the big picture of my 10 year plan or when I'm not black out drunk." She screamed, shoved me in the moat and flung her poop at me. Wait, is ebola a monkey loving disease?