Curious: good thing I like to drive everywhere

Maynard: note to self: avoid Cleveland and Dallas!!!

ITM: My understanding is that this shit is transferred by bodily fluids. In that case unless she pissed,sneezed snot,spit,puked or whatever,other passengers should be ok. I hope she didn't join the mile high club and eat a big hamburger....nevermind

Homer: he coughs in his hand then turns the door knob to the bathroom then you touch it then we all die....

Riverrat: I think their protocols for handling this stuff suck if the healthcare works keep getting it. It sounds like they really don't know what they are doing.

weave: I work in a church. I know one way this will spread. Imagine someone on this flight is a "true believer." They develop symptoms. Confessing a condition is giving in to the enemy. Therefore one must claim a healing from God and have faith you are OK. And just to be sure, go to a church healing service and let people pray for you and lay hands on you. God will heal you. No need to go to a hospital. I feel better already!

weave: Well rat, there's a lot of healthcare workers involved in dealing with a patient and they all aren't getting ill. But with something like this, even an error rate of 0.01% is enough to create a big problem.

Riverrat: Two in one hospital on one case is too many.

BigJay: Holy HAZWOPER Batman!

deez: pretty skeery. apparently using normal protective equipment isn't enough for the end stages of ebola, and they were not properly instructed on that while taking care of the guy in dallas. from what i read the secretions, and body fluids, etc are just pouring out of the person. they should have been double gloving, gown, everything. i think presby is a pretty reputable hospital, but they just weren't prepared along with 99% of the hospitals out there.

Riverrat: The CDC says there are really only 4 hospitals in the country that can handle ebola cases. Regular hospital isolation procedures aren't good enough for this stuff. The guy should never have been admitted to that hospital.

deez: he should have never been allowed to leave liberia. i don't understand why they're letting anyone leave that country without going through some sort of quarantine. and maybe they need to change their screening questions to include have you been exposed to anyone with ebola type symptoms, not have you been exposed to anyone with ebola. that guy had helped take care of someone with it, but at the time, they didn't realize that's what it was because she was pregnant. although you would think ebola would be the first thing they would check for being as there have been thousands of deaths already.

snippy: heres the numbers if ebola keeps going the way it has for the last several months. hunter s thompson used to say that its almost always 10 times worse than they say it is. Ebola spread rate at current trend Mar, 2014 - Infected: 104 Dead: 62 Apr, 2014 - Infected: 194 Dead: 116 May, 2014 - Infected: 360 Dead: 216 Jun, 2014 - Infected: 670 Dead: 402 Jul, 2014 - Infected: 1,247 Dead: 748 Aug, 2014 - Infected: 2,319 Dead: 1,391 Sep, 2014 - Infected: 4,313 Dead: 2,588 Oct, 2014 - Infected: 8,022 Dead: 4,813 Nov, 2014 - Infected: 14,921 Dead: 8,953 Dec, 2014 - Infected: 27,753 Dead: 16,652 Jan, 2015 - Infected: 51,621 Dead: 30,973 Feb, 2015 - Infected: 96,016 Dead: 57,610 Mar, 2015 - Infected: 178,590 Dead: 107,154 Apr, 2015 - Infected: 332,177 Dead: 199,306 May, 2015 - Infected: 617,849 Dead: 370,709 Jun, 2015 - Infected: 1,149,199 Dead: 689,519 Jul, 2015 - Infected: 2,137,510 Dead: 1,282,506 Aug, 2015 - Infected: 3,975,768 Dead: 2,385,461 Sep, 2015 - Infected: 7,394,928 Dead: 4,436,957 Oct, 2015 - Infected: 13,754,567 Dead: 8,252,740 Nov, 2015 - Infected: 25,583,494 Dead: 15,350,096 Dec, 2015 - Infected: 47,585,299 Dead: 28,551,179 Jan, 2016 - Infected: 88,508,656 Dead: 53,105,193 Feb, 2016 - Infected: 164,626,099 Dead: 98,775,660 Mar, 2016 - Infected: 306,204,545 Dead: 183,722,727 Apr, 2016 - Infected: 569,540,453 Dead: 341,724,272 May, 2016 - Infected: 1,059,345,243 Dead: 635,607,146 Jun, 2016 - Infected: 1,970,382,153 Dead: 1,182,229,292 Jul, 2016 - Infected: 3,664,910,804 Dead: 2,198,946,482 Aug, 2016 - Infected: 6,816,734,096 Dead: 4,090,040,457

snippy: i bet most the airlines are gonna eat shit pretty soon when peeps panic and refuse to fly anymore.

KingHade: ^Most airlines already operate in the red... Thanks deregulation!

Fleedle: Flights are cheap

Deleted User: The cat knows.