Ebola and Work assignments
10-12-2014, 08:24 AM
#11
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Ebola is an RNA virus. RNA viruses have a common characteristic - they mutate with high frequency. Not influenza level, but significantly more often than most.
The longer this infection is allowed to persist, and the more hosts it infects in divergent environments, the higher the likelihood that it is going to a more communicable form, or God forbid, airborne.
If that happens, the 1918 flu pandemic - where every house had someone sick, and bodies were actually stacked up on sidewalks outside houses, because the mortuaries were full up - will pale in comparison.
The longer this infection is allowed to persist, and the more hosts it infects in divergent environments, the higher the likelihood that it is going to a more communicable form, or God forbid, airborne.
If that happens, the 1918 flu pandemic - where every house had someone sick, and bodies were actually stacked up on sidewalks outside houses, because the mortuaries were full up - will pale in comparison.
10-12-2014, 09:35 AM
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At the hospital, the sheets of the patient muse be safely removed, transported and destroyed according to Level 4 Biohazard protocol.
I'm absolutely SURE that will happen with airline seats, and magazines, and tissues, etc.
Also, why are level 4 protocols on place for a non-airborn disease?
I'm absolutely SURE that will happen with airline seats, and magazines, and tissues, etc.
Also, why are level 4 protocols on place for a non-airborn disease?
10-12-2014, 10:03 AM
#15
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Originally Posted by CrimsonEclipse
Also, why are level 4 protocols on place for a non-airborn disease?
Nothing spreads like fear...
10-12-2014, 09:08 PM
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The same people telling us not to be afraid, not to panic, and not to be "science deniers" about ebola always respond to ebola situations wearing hazmat suits. When the people telling me not to be worried about ebola stop worrying about ebola, then I'll stop worrying about ebola.
10-12-2014, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by nocturnalmishin
Step away from the Faux News.
