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Post by BeckyTech on Jul 12, 2014 5:31:53 GMT
Where did she or the article say anything about Central America? She didn't. But she's been posting scare stuff lately about diseases being brought over the border by those children. This seems in line with the rest of it. I may give Rainbow a hard time but I think I'm fairly friendly about it. Rainbow's on the extreme side, IMO, and I don't agree with her most of the time, but I when I open a thread I try to evaluate it on its own merits, whether I have agreed or disagreed with that person in the past. Neither her comments nor the article had anything remotely to do with the immigrant children, so I just didn't see the point in anyone's comments that were directed that way.
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Post by lucyg on Jul 12, 2014 5:34:40 GMT
No thank you on the handslap.
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Post by BeckyTech on Jul 12, 2014 5:41:40 GMT
No thank you on the handslap. I thought I was fairly friendly about it.
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 12, 2014 5:51:11 GMT
No thank you on the handslap. I thought I was fairly friendly about it. Well, she did say thank you back.
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oldcrow
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Post by oldcrow on Jul 12, 2014 14:06:45 GMT
I would be more worried about getting c-difficile. And where do you get that - well, you can probably pick it up in just about any hospital. Touch door handles, elevator buttons, chairs...... yep anything you touch in a hospital can be contaminated. And many times it is fatal.
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Post by AgnesDeux on Jul 12, 2014 14:36:50 GMT
I saw this link yesterday and didn't click on it because I thought it was a sarcastic remark about a man having a cold. Read it today and it still took me most of the article to realize it wasn't making fun of anything. Oops!
But wow, can the media ever hype things. I am thinking we should all stay in and never leave the house. But wait, don't most accidents occur at home? What to do, what to do...
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Post by lucyg on Jul 12, 2014 14:38:45 GMT
hmmph. If Rainbow says I owe her an apology for jumping to the completely unwarranted conclusion that she was obliquely referring to Those Children again, I will apologize. Otherwise, not so much.
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Post by M~ on Jul 12, 2014 20:29:02 GMT
If you deport the prairie dogs, are you going to send money to the host country?
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Post by Scarlet Ohana on Jul 12, 2014 20:35:24 GMT
Good grief... is she always such a debbie downer?? Great smiley. Very appropriate.
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Post by gar on Jul 12, 2014 20:38:13 GMT
Love the smilie too
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MizIndependent
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Post by MizIndependent on Jul 12, 2014 21:24:12 GMT
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Post by gar on Jul 12, 2014 21:33:07 GMT
I think almost the scariest factor in the Ebola cases are that the African people often don't believe Ebola even exists!!!!
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Post by craftykitten on Jul 12, 2014 21:37:32 GMT
I think almost the scariest factor in the Ebola cases are that the African people often don't believe Ebola even exists!!!! Really?! I thought it was just AIDS/HIV a lot of Africans don't believe exists? Gosh.
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Post by BeckyTech on Jul 13, 2014 1:45:11 GMT
I saw a documentary on Ebola a few years ago. They covered one particular outbreak, and the poor doctors and nurses were just fighting an uphill battle throughout. Not only were they fighting the disease, but local customs as well. In some of those remote places where an outbreak occurs, the people simply don't understand communicable diseases. Of course they take care of the sick people in their families plus their custom is to bathe and dress the bodies of the deceased immediately, but the newly deceased are still contagious. The doctors had such a hard time trying to get them to just report an illness instead of trying to care for them. What was interesting was that they did blood transfusions from a patient or two who had actually recovered into those that were still sick, figuring the people who were recovered had some immunity. The people they were treating were going to die anyway, so it wasn't like they were taking a big risk. (At the time they did it they had no proof that it would work, it had never been tried before.) It did work and saved several lives. Actually, if you go to YouTube and search for Ebola documentary, several show up.
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Post by Kelpea on Jul 13, 2014 3:24:01 GMT
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 13, 2014 4:47:09 GMT
I read the book The Hot Zone back in the 90s before the movie Outbreak came out. It was informative for the time. I hope Ebola doesn't make it here.
Kelpea, I agree. It isn't that there was a breach of the vials, but it shows that there is a lack of security around potentially devastating diseases
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Post by SabrinaM on Jul 13, 2014 5:37:12 GMT
My bgf in MS had a pet prairie dog. I used to have nightmares about that thing!!
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Post by mirabelleswalker on Jul 13, 2014 5:59:03 GMT
I saw a documentary on Ebola a few years ago. They covered one particular outbreak, and the poor doctors and nurses were just fighting an uphill battle throughout. Not only were they fighting the disease, but local customs as well. In some of those remote places where an outbreak occurs, the people simply don't understand communicable diseases. Of course they take care of the sick people in their families plus their custom is to bathe and dress the bodies of the deceased immediately, but the newly deceased are still contagious. The doctors had such a hard time trying to get them to just report an illness instead of trying to care for them. What was interesting was that they did blood transfusions from a patient or two who had actually recovered into those that were still sick, figuring the people who were recovered had some immunity. The people they were treating were going to die anyway, so it wasn't like they were taking a big risk. (At the time they did it they had no proof that it would work, it had never been tried before.) It did work and saved several lives. Actually, if you go to YouTube and search for Ebola documentary, several show up. I remember reading a long article about ebola many years ago and it said that the Africans would put bottles of bleach in front of their doors to prevent them from getting the disease. This way, as ebola was passing by the house, it would see the bleach and think, "Oh--I'm not going there...that bleach will kill me." Very hard to educate people whose cultural beliefs are so different.
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Post by Kelpea on Jul 13, 2014 11:55:41 GMT
Same, Freecharlie. That book stays with ya.
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