I'm sure this is on everyone's radar now, but there is so much sunshine being blown up American's skirts in the news tonight. We have no worries, because this is the U.S. medical system? It was a U.S. medical doctor that saw this guy in his office and sent him home on the 26th so he could be in the public, symptomatic with what we now know was Ebola, for a total of nearly 5 days (and is now in critical condition). There are probably another handful of people he infected in those 5 days, including (possibly) people at that medical facility that sent him home. We just don't know it yet. And we'll have to wait 21-42 days to know for sure.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your top (U.S.) news story of the day? > http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140929-dallas-county-health-officials-cdc-team-headed-to-dallas.ece?hootPostID=b260717dd73ff15c9eaa34b0cb970876 > > and here's a live traffic shot of roads leading out of Dallas: > http://goo.gl/hb3ffA > > (Not really. That last part is my dark humor showing.) > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, here is your top news story of the day which probably won't be >> mentioned on any news program. >> http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola >> >> This story pretty much commits the journalistic sin of "burying the >> lead" which in my opinion is THIS: >> CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Treatment and Policy) declares >> that "Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an >> aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of >> experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important >> feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings." >> Earlier in the article they said, 'We recommend using "aerosol >> transmissible" rather than the outmoded terms "droplet" or "airborne" >> to describe pathogens that can transmit disease via infectious >> particles suspended in air.' >> >> Holy crap. >> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I think it is somewhat amusing (but not) when we think that mankind >>> has everything under control and is at the height of their >>> technological and scientific prowess. >>> >>> 9/11 was one of those slackjawed days, as we watched two of the >>> tallest architectural achievements of mankind collapse to the ground >>> under a pretty low-tech attack, with so many innocent people inside >>> them. Another slackjaw day for me was watching on radar as Category >>> Katrina took dead aim at New Orleans and realizing that we were >>> looking at the real possibility of the destruction of an American >>> metro area. Yep. More or less. >>> >>> And now, I'm slackjawed at the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The game is >>> over, people. This is going to kill hundreds of thousands of people >>> (at a minimum) before it is all said and done. And, if either of the >>> two strains currently going at it in Africa, mutates to be >>> air-transmissible we are looking at a world wide pandemic. Mankind has >>> no central authority to manage resources to fight a disaster like this >>> one. Ebola is currently killing at a rate of 80-85%. Male SURVIVORS of >>> Ebola are spreading the contagion through their semen for AT LEAST 7 >>> weeks after the date of their infection. It is hitting in the area of >>> the world least able to deal with it. >>> >>> This guy is right on: >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html?_r=0 >>> >>> -- >>> Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs >>> look like photographs. >>> ~ Alfred Stieglitz >> >> >> >> -- >> Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs >> look like photographs. >> ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
