Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[Fate]

You don't need BSL 4 level gear (e.g. spacesuits) to treat Ebola patients. You need an impermeable gown, latex gloves, a hood, boots, and goggles. The nurse apparently did not follow proper procedure when taking off her PPE if she in fact touched he face with a gloved hand.

For most people, it's pretty fucking hard to resist touching their faces. The impulse will be there no matter how much training you go through.

If you've ever scrubbed into a surgery or performed a sterile procedure, you'll realize that it's fairly easy to suppress that need with training. We operate on patients with HIV and hepatitis C (highly contagious blood borne viruses) every day and don't think anything of it.

[CountDeMoney]

No clinical environment is 100% risk-free, PPE standards at not.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

No environment is 100% risk-free, PPE standards or not.

FYP

[CountDeMoney]

Like Ed's bathroom. BSL-4.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

You have to nuke that shit from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

[CountDeMoney]

Some people have a bathroom fan.  Ed has a negative pressure incinerator.

[Maximus]

If you've ever scrubbed into a surgery or performed a sterile procedure, you'll realize that it's fairly easy to suppress that need with training. We operate on patients with HIV and hepatitis C (highly contagious blood borne viruses) every day and don't think anything of it.

Or even if you've worked with hazardous or disgusting materials. It's easy to remember not to touch your face when your gloves are covered in shit or viscera.

[Eddie Teach]

Easy to forget too.

For the record, rubbing your eyes when you've been chopping jalapenos is a very bad idea.

[Fate]

A Dallas Sheriff Deputy just showed up at a Frisco, Texas ER with Ebola-like symptoms. He had some sort of contact with Duncan per early news reports. They just rolled him into my hospital. Looks like this is just out of an abundance of caution, but we probably won't know until tomorrow if he tests positive or negative for the virus.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Jalapenos are nothing.  Habaneros will keep you from ever doing it again.

[lustindarkness]

A Dallas Sheriff Deputy just showed up at a Frisco, Texas ER with Ebola-like symptoms. He had some sort of contact with Duncan per early news reports. They just rolled him into my hospital. Looks like this is just out of an abundance of caution, but we probably won't know until tomorrow if he tests positive or negative for the virus.

Remember to shoot for the brain, and in a prolonged zombie apocalypse, crowbars and axes do not need to reload.

[Maximus]

Remember to shoot for the brain, and in a prolonged zombie apocalypse, crowbars and axes do not need to reload.

Woodcutter's axes tend to get stuck in skulls. Try to get something with a wider blade, like a sparth axe. Or something like a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i240YgsA_rs.

[lustindarkness]

Remember to shoot for the brain, and in a prolonged zombie apocalypse, crowbars and axes do not need to reload.

Woodcutter's axes tend to get stuck in skulls. Try to get something with a wider blade, like a sparth axe. Or something like a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i240YgsA_rs.

Truth.

[mongers]

Time to spy out a secure location with a good water source and prepare adequate supplies for a 3 week stay? 

[Eddie Teach]

Time to spy out a secure location with a good water source and prepare adequate supplies for a 3 week stay? 

Yeah, this'll be over in three weeks.