Ebola In The Media

Where the hell is the 2thumbsup smiley thingy.

 

science has taken a back seat to fear and hysteria for sure. I was also wondering about how long Ebola can survive in bodily fluids deposited on a dry surface. I remember reading about how all the belongings of one of the nurses diagnosed were completely destroyed which left me wondering - was this an overreaction or completely necessary? Unless she was bleeding all over the place before she left her apartment why would it be necessary?

 

To instill fear...


According to the CDC...

 

I have this un-cold cough intermittent between stomach aches of quick shortness of breath. Like you see keeps me up all night; is that caused by the Ebola virus. Day's are O.K. with long sitting sessions.

 

At other times, they make statements to contradict this. Then they wonder why the public is confused.

 

Agreed. Ultimately it would be great if the heads of countries could get together to form a universal international response, but that will never happen.

 

The second Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while aiding Duncan was released from the hospital yesterday.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/health/us-ebola/index.html


The nurse who was kept in quarantine in NJ after returning from working in West Africa with Ebola patients, was released due to her protests. She returned home to Maine where the governor has sent state police to keep her quarantined there.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/29/ebola-nurse-maine/18105327/


US military personnel returning from West Africa have been ordered 21 day controlled monitoring.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/29/hagel-orders-21-day-quarantine-for-all-military-personnel-returning-from-ebola/

 

She plans to fight this in court.

Everybody seems to have forgotten that we've been sending doctors and nurses to fight Ebola for years, allowing them to return without quarantine, and no US Ebola cases have resulted. This is the third time that parts of Africa have gone through an Ebola epidemic.

 

I suppose that we'll see how ready the state is to impose mandatory quarantine on healthy individuals.

 

A neighboring county. where I live, has banned a teacher from school after she told students that her husband had just gotten back from Sierra Leone.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/ebola-concerns-prompt-teachers-removal-from-newton/nhtW6/



This link is to the letter students were sent home with today.

http://www.newtoncountyschools.org/Portals/0/newtoncounty/main/documents/infectious_diseases/Parent%20Letter%20regarding%20Infectious%20Disease.pdf

 

I've also heard media reports of some black kids getting beat up in school just for having a foreign accent, being told by bullies that they and their Ebola are not welcome in school. Some of them haven't been to a foreign country in years.

I like the press interviews that the nurse in Maine does from her house. She's doing a good job of explaining the situation very clearly, for those of us without a medical background. I shouldn't be surprised. Unlike CDC researchers and administrators, nurses are used to explaining things to ordinary people.

 

This is a story that was passed to me. It says that one of the boys lay crying in the floor with more than 10 attackers on top of him. Theses are pretty small kids.

Two African brothers who recently moved to the United States were attacked in school on Friday, NBC New York reports.

The boys, who are in sixth and eighth grade, were hospitalized after being severely injured by people who called them "Ebola,"




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/boys-called-ebola-attacked-bronx_n_6055406.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

 

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seems like a bad case of ordinary bullying to me. Not really an ebola related issue. You guys know kids say 'the darndest things' right?

 

Is absolutely is an Ebola related issue.

This is what the kids are feeling from what is circulating from media through family and friends. That's what this thread is about - Ebola In The Media.

When you are beating the shit out of a kid, trying to kill him and yelling "Ebola" to him while you are doing it, that is Ebola related.

 

I disagree. It has only become ebola related because it has reached the media. It wasn't ebola related on itself. If the bullies would have called the victimised kids an aidspatient it would not make it an aids related issue because of that either. And it wouldn't have reached the media anyway.

 

I gotta agree with asmo on this. When I was in school the foreign kids were picked on worse than anyone else. The kids relate Ebola to the African kids because they saw it on the news or heard it from their parents, sure, but if they weren't getting beat up because of Ebola it would just be something else. I doubt these kids even really understand what Ebola is.

 

My granddaughter is 12 yrs old and in 6th grade. She understands what Ebola is.

 

So? Does that count for every 12 year old kid then? When I was 12 kids used the word cancer and aids as insults (yes bad I know, but not the point ). Does that mean we were busy with aids and cancer? No not really. We were busy with provoking and insulting and going by associations like when a fellow kid had an unfortunate bald head he might get called cancerface. This is a serious issue when it comes to bullying and insulting, but it does not make it an aids or cancer related issue. Maybe it would be depending on the motives of why a kid would use these words. But when it is merely an association and to provoke, bully or insult it is a bullying issue and not really an ebola related issue. Unless of course it gets blown out of proportion and gets media attention for the wrong reasons. Then it could become an ebola related issue in the end because it was turned into one.

 

The boys came from Senegal in Africa in September. Senegal was on declared free of Ebola in August.

The beatings were Ebola related - This is Ebola In The Media.

It doesn't get any plainer.

 

Another neighboring county where I live -

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Two Dunwoody students who recently returned from West Africa were blocked from enrolling in DeKalb schools this week as a precaution against the spread of Ebola.
DeKalb school officials said the father worked for CARE, a humanitarian organization, as a finance controller in the Liberia/Sierra Leone office. He returned to the United States on Sept. 14 with his family and tried to enroll the children Wednesday at Dunwoody Elementary and Dunwoody High.
According to school officials, the family had a letter from CARE saying more than 21 days had passed since their return from the United States, which is beyond the quarantine period for Ebola. But school officials turned the students away because the district requires confirmation from the CDC or local health department, not from an employer, said spokesman Quinn Hudson.

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No new students from Ebola-affected West African countries, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and other affected areas in the United States, will not be enrolled or allowed to attend classes on school campuses without proper medical documentation and approval by the Superintendent.

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2014/10/16/dekalb-schools-sets-protocol-for-students-from-ebola-affected-countries/17365547/

These kids know what Ebola is and they are freaking out because the adults around them are freaking out.