Ebola: shit is hitting the fan

Yeah, it is bad. Just the numbers alone in Africa, plus those who are unaccounted for, are high; and now, it has begun to spread to the scientist and doctors who have gone over there to help contain it. In the U.S. there has been two people in, I think New York, who had contracted it after having been in the African hot-zone, but they were given experimental drugs and have gotten better. The have also been release after not showing anymore symptoms of Ebola; but who know, they might still be contagious. Then There a guy from Dallas -who has now died- and has infected a police officer who came in contact with him, along with a nurse.

There was also a brief period where the guy from Dallas came in contact with quite a bit of people -and those people probably came in contact with others- without anyone realizing he had Ebola. For the several days nobody knew about his condition, he could have made out with a hooker and the hooker is now out and about spreading Ebola to everyone. I live about a nine hours drive from Dallas and someone who has had fluid contact with the guy with Ebola could have already been to where I live. Not that I'm worried or anything, I just wonder how everything would be if it does become world wide.

Stores will begin to sell their items for a lot of money, people wearing mask everywhere. I bet the people who sell non-working gas masks and filters are going to make a lot of money out of it if it continues to spread. I wonder if this is going to be like the plague.

I haven't heard of anyone with a case of Ebola breaking out in Europe -that's because of the crap news. Anything over der?

 

Spain had a bit of an outbreak and a guy died in Germany but nothing properly serious

 

that sounded colder than it was meant to, basically, nothing big is happening and every so often, a hospital in London loses it because it thinks it has an ebola sufferer

 

You're wrong, it will be the apocalypse!

Onto more serious matters, I recently lost a person close to me. She was young and perfectly healthy until she showed symptoms of an illness for just a couple weeks or so before she died. Nobody knows why yet. It's unlikely to be Ebola, but with the talk of it spreading around, and the fact that there's a patient in Norway being treated for Ebola, I can't help but think that may have been the cause.

 

A black student was taken away a day after he arrived on the campus in Oryol:

 

My condolences. And who the heck knows, but I hope for your sake and everybody else over there that it wasn't Ebola.

 

Another nurse in Dallas has been diagnosed with Ebola -that makes two now. This nurse was on a flight from Ohio to Dallas, Texas, a day before she was isolated. Even though officials knew the nurse had been one of the ones who treated Thomas Duncan, the first man in Dallas to have the virus, and after her temperature was checked -coming on as unusually high- flight officials still allowed her to get on the plane. Pretty stupid. On that airplane, there were 132 other passengers that could have come in contact with her and the virus. Among those passengers were several teachers; and now, if they are dumb enough to do so, they might come in contact with their students.

Post-apocalyptic world: here we go.

 

One thing i noticed noone is talking about is the danger of a crash in patients

In the later stages of ebola you tend to bleed ALOT i mean out of every hole your eyes nose fingertips it is not nice and as you can imagine loosing that much blood tends to put you in to shock, And when you enter shock you thrash about spraying the place not nice but no media is talking of the risks of that?

 

I know this is kind of natural, but I think it's a bit sick that people think this is only getting serious because it is reaching out of Africa. It's been serious from the very moment it started. Let's just hope healthcare services around the world will be prepared.

 

There have been something like 70 hospital scares in America, where people isolate someone showing symptoms close to Ebola. The girl I'm seeing actually works at a hospital that had a scare yesterday. People are out there protesting today that it's all a hoax. Everything is kind of pretty fucked up when you think about the current state of events.

 

^There has already been 3 scares where I live this past week.

 

My colleagues at work just laugh at it and joke about it, as well as stating "Ebola has existed since, what, 1979? True, it's recently escalated drastically, but it's been escalating all the time. The media is just blabbering about it to have something to blabber about, and everybody's reacting so they have some excitement in their lives", or something along the lines of that. :noidea:

 

I've watched a few videos from USA and holy fuck that's a lot of fear mongering.

Guys, your media overplays the threats of ISIS and Ebola.

 

Yeah ebola is overrated in its current form. I even heard they have it locked down in Nigeria now. However if it mutates and becomes airborne (from what I understand this is possible but very unlikely) we have a whole other situation. But yeah, I haven't spent more than 30 continous seconds pondering ebola since it re-established 8 months or so ago. So no big deal.

 

It reminds me of the time the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan spewed out a little radiation. Here in the United States, the media blew the story up and made people freak out over nothing. There were stories on the news of people spending over $100 for some potassium-iodine pills on Ebay and Amazon on the belief that it would prevent them from getting radiation poisoning from the "scary radiation cloud from Japan."

"Really People," I thought to myself. "Don't you remember or have ever heard of something similar but way worse that happened in 86'? Chernobyl ring a bell?" It was pretty stupid -_-

If you mention radiation here and you tell someone that they're are being exposed to radiation all day and all night long, they will have a panic attack and begin telling everyone else. They seem to forget what the sun and everything else around them emits. I'm still interested to see how everything turns out. If it takes over the world, I hope to be a survivor so that I can roam the earth and have all the land to myself.

 

Guys I think you're right. A lot of people dies everyday of cancer, and nobody is so alarmed. There is no ebola in Spain, now. And well, It's true that Africa is in a bad moment. But not all the continent is infected! A really small part is infected. I'm not scared. Why have I to be scared?

 

A little?

Total incompetence and blatant lying lead to a mess that can be called a Chernobyl #2, actually hwell:



The main difference with Chernobyl here is that the fucking japs can't fix a problem to this day. This shit is still leaking radioactive crap into the ocean.

Worse still, this has caused another round of Atomic Energy scare. For example Switzerland cancelled their nuclear program because of that. Apparently the general population there is scared of tsunamis.

 

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Your right on this one -_-
yeah, your right, Fukushima has "spewed" more radiation than Chernobyl, and it still actually spewing it out. Chernobyl was a sudden burst of large amounts of radiation spewed into the atmosphere, all at once. So, it just depends how you look at it. You can say that Fukushima has spewed more radioactive junk over a longer period than Chernobyl (making it the winner), or you can say that Fukushima has spewed out less that Chernobyl because it hasn't released more radiation, overall (making it the looser). What I tried saying, originally, was that Chernobyl was more catastrophic.

Here's a chart that compares Fukushima with Chernobyl. I couldn't figure out how to link it to you so that the page automatically jumps to where the info was, but just find where it says "Maximum Level of Radiation Detected" and read from there to get the comparison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl_nuclear_accidents
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And the Ebola note: Many of the U.S. soldiers who recently went to West-Africa to aid in the treatment of Ebola will be returning soon to five U.S. bases to be quarantined and monitored for 21 days to make sure they have not contracted the Virus. One of those bases is located in the city I live in...yay . I couldn't find how many of those soldiers will be brought over here, but many of military personal who will be caring for them say they are ready for it. You know how well that's going to be (referring to movies).