HaHaHa! That's pretty good : )
Since my wife and I have a lot of ministers and veterans in the family, I realize there could be a small number of volunteers. Those volunteers might chose to stay in Africa however.
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Ebola Comes To USA
- Thread starter skychief
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HaHaHa! That's pretty good : )
Since my wife and I have a lot of ministers and veterans in the family, I realize there could be a small number of volunteers. Those volunteers might chose to stay in Africa however.
I was just thinking the Ebola survivors could be trained to care for other Ebola-inflicted in their own village or town. Of course they would be afforded the same PPE gear that other health care providers do, but they would have the peace of mind knowing they were doing for their own and not relying on outside help and the peace of mind knowing they cannot get sick.
If only this plan had been implemented 3 months ago, think of all the lives that could have been saved.
Guess what:
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/19/troh-duncan-ebola-statement/17575755/
Unbelievable, right?
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/19/troh-duncan-ebola-statement/17575755/
Unbelievable, right?
Also:
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Kindly note the people in badass hazmat suits, discussed above. Perhaps we are not doomed?
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Kindly note the people in badass hazmat suits, discussed above. Perhaps we are not doomed?
Note how Europe has decided to help the best way possible, by sending teams, and money to help stop the outbreaks where they are happening and where the resources are lacking, instead of isolating those countries and saying it's Africa's problem and not our own, which is what the US would have been doing had it followed the alamist's' calls for closed borders.
Note also the lack of an outbreak in the US or any other non western African nation, and the lack of cheap and tawdry electioneering and political point scoring everywhere in the world, including African countries, except for the United States of Hysteria.
Here's the list of total funding of contributing Nations in the fight of Ebola in the Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Region. (PDF)
http://fts.unocha.org/reports/daily/ocha_R5_A1060___1410201558.pdf
Not surprisingly, The United States tops the list with $90 million in donated funds., nearly 9 times that of the European Commission ($10.5 million). #2 Nation is UK with $16.2 million in funds donated to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
Not to mention the $750 million in resources to be spent in the next six months for the 4000 US troops deployed to fabricate field hospitals and emergency care stations.
The lack of insight and understanding of facts in some of the posts in this thread is truly astounding.
http://fts.unocha.org/reports/daily/ocha_R5_A1060___1410201558.pdf
Not surprisingly, The United States tops the list with $90 million in donated funds., nearly 9 times that of the European Commission ($10.5 million). #2 Nation is UK with $16.2 million in funds donated to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
Not to mention the $750 million in resources to be spent in the next six months for the 4000 US troops deployed to fabricate field hospitals and emergency care stations.
The lack of insight and understanding of facts in some of the posts in this thread is truly astounding.
Please note. The US is sending over 3000 troops to the hot zone. The US donates more money in aid to Africa than any other country in the world. France and Britain have travel restrictions.
Apparently we (USA) are securing the home turf first. Hopefully we will soon follow Europe's lead in Africa.
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I do find it hard to believe that the only hysteria is in the US. More likely, since other countries have more experience with partisan media (still a relatively new idea here) and are better at filtering out the more extreme opinions, hysterical opinions stay local instead of getting a worldwide audience like our media does.
I can't say I ever expected this kind of frankness and levelheadedness from Fox news, but it is very refreshing.
I think this is one of the WHO articles you refer to:
"With the number of people infected with Ebola escalating at an alarming rate in Liberia, the Ministry of Health, WHO and other partners are racing to train a sufficient number of health workers to care for Ebola patients while avoiding the risk of becoming infected themselves."
“We realized that we need a new training programme that will be able to prepare 400 health workers over the coming weeks to be rapidly deployed into the new and existing Ebola treatment units,” Invalid Link Removed
and I stumbled across this:
"The United Nations has begun training Ebola survivors to help respond to the soaring number of cases in West Africa, because people who've lived through the experience are now immune to the disease, UNICEF's crisis communications chief told reporters Friday." [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Well, I'm relieved to hear my idea wasn't so ludicrous after all.
Some folks commenting in this thread have raised the question of why there seems to be different standards when it comes to the PPE worn by health care workers who treat Ebola patients.
It seems reasonable to question it. imo.
Dr. Fauci (NIH Director) outlined some important things to consider regarding the higher level of protection required for health care workers in the US :
"While Fauci said he didn't want to "preempt" new protocols, he said they will go "a step further" than the previous World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines that the CDC had followed for years.
Those protocols, "worked very well for many, many years in approaching patients who have Ebola in the African setting, which is in a much less well-developed setting," Fauci said. But Ebola patients being treated in the U.S. often receive much more advanced treatment such as intubation to add or remove bodily fluids and hemodialysis, a method for addressing kidney failure, he said.
"The exposure level is a bit different particularly because you're keeping patients alive, because you have the capability," he said.
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This takes away the political element from the question and provides a practical, real-world explanation of the disparity.
It seems reasonable to question it. imo.
Dr. Fauci (NIH Director) outlined some important things to consider regarding the higher level of protection required for health care workers in the US :
"While Fauci said he didn't want to "preempt" new protocols, he said they will go "a step further" than the previous World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines that the CDC had followed for years.
Those protocols, "worked very well for many, many years in approaching patients who have Ebola in the African setting, which is in a much less well-developed setting," Fauci said. But Ebola patients being treated in the U.S. often receive much more advanced treatment such as intubation to add or remove bodily fluids and hemodialysis, a method for addressing kidney failure, he said.
"The exposure level is a bit different particularly because you're keeping patients alive, because you have the capability," he said.
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This takes away the political element from the question and provides a practical, real-world explanation of the disparity.
I'm still trying to figure out the best method for panicking over this.
I'll likely figure it out after work when I have some time to get a lot of beer in me.
I'll likely figure it out after work when I have some time to get a lot of beer in me.
It's stuff like this that just showed up in my Facebook feed that feeds the frenzy machine. I can't stand clickbait sites. This one just makes up blatant lies constantly.
