Are you wearing a hazmat suit?

Are you wearing a hazmat suit?

  • Yes, I am protecting my fellow citizens from ebola.

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • No, I have a callous disregard for my fellows and hope they all die bleeding from the eyes.

    Votes: 14 87.5%
  • Total voters
    16
Timsup2nothin

Timsup2nothin

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Journalism at its finest, as exemplified by the morning news/talk shows. This morning they approached the ebola situation from two fronts.

Did the nurse who has ebola willfully and knowing she was sick fly from Dallas to Cleveland and back? Let's badger her family and make them deny it.

Did the hospital where she was infected just blatantly ignore the CDC recommendations for treatment of ebola victims, or did their two nurses get infected because the CDC recommendations are totally inadequate? This one ended when the director of the hospital pointed out that when the guy with ebola walked in he didn't have a neon sign over his head that said 'I have ebola'. Apparently there is a difference between diagnosing ebola and treating ebola, which accounts for me being able to walk into an emergency room without being instantly teleported into an isolation chamber. The 'journalists' are still trying to find a way to sensationalize that further.
 
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I never leave the house without mine. I also use it during my (increasingly rare) bouts of sexual athletics.
 
Ready for ebola-infected ISIS zombies:

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Gallows humor. :(

I got my flu shot on Tuesday and am very careful about physical contact with other people/things they touch, since far too many are careless about cold/flu germs. As for Ebola, I live a long way from the nearest airport and don't expect to be anywhere near international travelers any time soon.

Some people could very well panic if they saw someone in a hazmat suit, the way some newscasts are spinning this.
 
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^Me this morning in the train to work.

Seriously i am getting a bit paranoic too. If there are more cases i would consider to stop going to the pool. :shifty:
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Gallows humor. :(

I got my flu shot on Tuesday and am very careful about physical contact with other people/things they touch, since far too many are careless about cold/flu germs. As for Ebola, I live a long way from the nearest airport and don't expect to be anywhere near international travelers any time soon.
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Yay! All hail the flu jab! I'm sooo glad not to get flu any more.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Gallows humor. :(

I got my flu shot on Tuesday and am very careful about physical contact with other people/things they touch, since far too many are careless about cold/flu germs. As for Ebola, I live a long way from the nearest airport and don't expect to be anywhere near international travelers any time soon.

Some people could very well panic if they saw someone in a hazmat suit, the way some newscasts are spinning this.
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Gallows humor is the consolation prize we get for bad news. When life gives you viruses, make virusaide! Besides, I'm flying to Texas next week for my friends' wedding, so I'm in the sort of mood where I play Pandemic II more often than usual. ;)

Your comment and the fact I'm flying remind me I should really get a flu shot ASAP, as in tomorrow. The flu and complications from it are considerably more likely to kill me than Ebola at this stage. Not to mention driving to the airport. :eek:

Also, if a Halloween hazmat suit caused a panic, it would make for even more news! I'll refrain from wearing one on the plane though.
 
Viruses are acellular.
 
I was going to say - if only our new overlords had cells. But they're just dirty little cheaters without even having their own metabolism. Just a few proteins and a strand of RNA.
 
In previous weeks on TV I often heired people being worried about panicking.
And I often wondered what the hell was wrong with them. At least to me it seemed that no one saw reason to panic. It was just another mess going on in Africa. And I felt like those tv people were creating any sense of a panic themselves in the first place by constantly saying that people had no reason to panic.

So... when did you first think that you may need to panic. Was it perhaps after someone saying you should not?
 
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