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Nothing on the first page? What happened to you guys?

I don't remember the movie ending like this...

Pretty sure flu season is going to be a fun one, there will be LOTS of 'Ebola' cases...

One thing I've been wondering, how many folks posting about Ebola would get an Ebola vaccine if available?

I've seen some of those same that are worried about the Ebola that have stated they would never get a Flu vaccine. I'm betting more folks die from Flu in the next 6 months than Ebola.

No vaccines, remember? Vaccines and flouride are bad for you.

Ebola is dangerous crap, but the genie needs to get out of the bottle in larger numbers to present an epidemic here. Instead of 1 or 2 people who are incubating, there needs to be a few more.

This was a good wake-up call. It also continues to expose our president for the kindergarten thug he really is.

He talks about junior varsity, as if he ever had the chance to actually make a JV team.

The movie's not over, it's just in intermission right now.

By the way, it is hardly hysteria to expect that our government should do everything in its power to keep Ebola out of America. Everybody knows that there are plenty of other diseases here that currently kill a lot more folks than Ebola. However, that is hardly a valid excuse to be cavalier about adding another horror like Ebola to the list.

Thank God!! For now.

Maybe the freaking stock market will now get back to normal and focus will be put back on the dude in charge and what he's doing with his EO pens.

Tuberculosis.

Thanks for raising awareness, dude!! Peace, love, vaccines!!

I can't find breathing masks anywhere!!

Of course I'm not looking either so maybe that's the problem.

This.

kwg

If I am exposed to the flu at work and get it, the chance that I die from it is less than half of one percent, and am likely to not even need medical care to survive.

Ebola, on the other hand, I am certain to need ICU care, will likely have to survive DIC by receiving the massive transfusion protocol, and still have a decent chance of dying.

Apples, meet oranges.

There's some perspective for ya! Well said.

Maybe people have figured out that during the early stages of infection ebola is actually hard to transmit to other people...

Ok probably not, but the lack of any new cases being reported has calmed the ebola hysteria down temporarily. If we have another case reported the panic will fire right back up.

Yes, it was.

If an Ebola vaccine comes out, it will be some hurried-up affair that will probably kill more people than any Flu vaccine ever has.

I had my Flu shot about a week ago. Maybe it will protect me from the Flu and maybe it won't since it's specific to the type of Flu the drug company thinks will be most widespread, but doesn't cover all of them.

That or the MSM has been told to stfu about it until after all Obama's pards get re-elected.

It's too bad for many we don't have some hysteria about that, of course, if it isn't going to kill a few million of us it's no big deal.

Illegal aliens only kill about 20 of us a day, so we take the attitude blacks did years ago in Africa going to the croc infested river to wash. There's no big chance of any one person being chomped if a whole bunch jump in the river at the same time.

It's interesting that the Feds (with or without Obama's "leadership") finally put some air travel restrictions in effect yesterday. Restrictions that probably should have been put in place 4-6 months ago at least.

Just because the media isn't peeing their pants over this issue doesn't mean it's gone away. The efforts to control the outbreak in west Africa are still ongoing, and from what I can glean out of the press (mostly international outlets, US press is virtually useless for anything outside of Kardashian-class "news") the inflow of dollars and personnel from various outside nations, including the USA, is making some positive headway in that regard.

Domestically, we are still waaaaaaaay behind the curve. Control of infected persons trying to come into the USA is still a joke. There WILL be more infected people coming into the USA yet.

And hospital preparedness is still woefully inadequate. Yesterday my hospital's DON came back from a regional Ebola-preparedness meeting and told me that when she raised the idea of setting up triage units outside of hospital ER's, the group was stunned and amazed at this idea... and these are supposedly some of the leading lights in Infection Control in Texas!! She said that when she pointed out to them that having Ebola patients come into our ER's would paralyze the hospital for several days, some of the attendees looked like they were gonna pee their pants.

The plain fact is that even though there have been position papers and expert forums since the fall of 2001 discussing the FACT that America would and could be paralyzed by determined attacks on our Emergency Medicine infrastructure, NO ONE has taken even the first rudimentary steps toward securing our nation's ER's. The Charlie Foxtrot that happened at Dallas Parkside will inevitably be repeated, and I predict MANY times, before the Powers That Be get their heads out of their collective ass and mandate (and fund) a true emergency preparedness program for our nation's hospitals.

A lot of us have yelled until we're hoarse about the illegal problem and yet the government is going full throttle in the opposite direction. I think a whole lot of people think it's a really big deal and are against it, but are just yelled out.

Well said.