Hazmat-Trained Hospital Worker: Here's What No One Is Telling You About Ebola

[Luddly Neddite]

Ebola is brilliant.

It is a superior virus that has evolved and fine-tuned its mechanism of transmission to be near-perfect. That's why we're all so terrified. We know we can't destroy it. All we can do is try to divert it, outrun it.

I've worked in health care for a few years now. One of the first things I took advantage of was training to become FEMA-certified for hazmat ops in a hospital setting. My rationale for this was that, in my home state of Maine, natural disasters are almost a given. We're also, though you may not know it, a state that has many major ports that receive hazardous liquids from ships and transport them inland. In the back of my mind, of course, I was aware that any hospital in the world could potentially find itself at the epicenter of a scene from The Hot Zone. That was several years ago. Today I'm thinking, by God, I might actually have to use this training. Mostly, though, I'm aware of just that -- that I did receive training. Lots of it. Because you can't just expect any nurse or any doctor or any health care worker or layperson to understand the deconning procedures by way of some kind of pamphlet or 10-minute training video. Not only is it mentally rigorous, but it's physically exhausting.

Interesting article.

Read the rest at the link.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

THIS SUNDAY: The “Meet the Press” summit on Ebola. There is no epidemic in America, but there is an outbreak of hysteria. What clarifications do you need from the experts we've gathered? Tell us here, on Twitter, or Instagram using #MTPSummit

 

[Gracie]

There wouldn't be much hysteria if ebola was not BROUGHT here by tards going THERE to "help" then bringing it back to share with the rest of us...and the tards that refuse to stop travel for awhile until those tards that went there were cleared after a month or two of being free of being carriers.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

No, the hysteria has been caused by media. Everyone wants to be first with the non-existent news of Ebola before the public gets it figured out or there's a new thing to panic about.

People are stupid. They believe what they're told to believe.

 

[Rikurzhen]

People are stupid. They believe what they're told to believe.

But you're smarter than the stupid people, right?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

People are stupid. They believe what they're told to believe.

But you're smarter than the stupid people, right?

Yep.

But, all that means is I hafta be smarter than you.

Now, get back to your painting.