Ebola outbreak in West Africa

[Sava]

humans screw over everything.

[Colon™]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/15/opinion/robbins-ebola-fear/index.html

Navarro has rejected every student application from Nigeria, a country with 174 million people and 20 cases of Ebola.

[Elok]

You are all more likely to die by lightning travelling up the power cord of your computer and electrocuting you while you jerk off to the babe thread than you are to die of ebola.

Uh-oh. I don't visit the babe threads. Should I? Will that protect me from the Ebola?

[The Mad Monk]

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/23221

“Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, October 16, as a precaution. We learned today that an SMS staff member traveled home from Dallas on Frontier Airlines Tuesday on a different flight, but perhaps the same aircraft, as the Texas nurse with Ebola.

This circumstance came to light late in the day and we have been working since then to get as much information as possible from public health authorities. Although we believe what the science community and public health officials are telling us about the low risk of possible transmission of the virus through indirect contact, we are nonetheless taking the unusual step of closing the dual school building for Thursday so that we can have the schools cleaned and disinfected.

Meanwhile, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District confirmed that it was made aware that a teacher who works at Cranwood School may have come into contact with a person diagnosed with Ebola virus. City Health Officials have assured officials that students, staff, and families were not at risk, but CMSD has taken several precautions to ease any concerns about safety at the school. Overnight, the school is being cleaned with a bleach-based cleaning solution in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CDC.

I thought there would come a point where watching Ben crap himself pointlessly about Ebola would stop bring funny, but nope..

Ben isn't the one panicking there.

[Guynemer]

Uh-oh. I don't visit the babe threads. Should I? Will that protect me from the Ebola?

Well, I haven't gotten Ebola yet, what does that tell you?

[ricketyclik]

I must admit that I can understand Ben's concern wrt the school thing. Without spending time in them as an adult it's hard to appreciate just how poor children and adolescents' personal hygiene is, their degree of personal contact, and what germ-infested surfaces there are in schools. When I worked in them I got into the habit of avoiding touching anything unnecessarily, and washing my hands every time I passed a tap, which was often as my desk was next to the sink in the Maths staff room.

[DaShi]

Ben doesn't care about kids other than molesting them. He's just trying to use them to promote his fear-based agenda.

[Hauldren Collider]

Well, I haven't gotten Ebola yet, what does that tell you?

As a statistician(-in-training) I'd like to endorse this particular form of inference

[Ben Kenobi]

I must admit that I can understand Ben's concern wrt the school thing. Without spending time in them as an adult it's hard to appreciate just how poor children and adolescents' personal hygiene is, their degree of personal contact, and what germ-infested surfaces there are in schools. When I worked in them I got into the habit of avoiding touching anything unnecessarily, and washing my hands every time I passed a tap, which was often as my desk was next to the sink in the Maths staff room

We are a significant locus for disease distribution. Not just between children to staff, but from children to their families. One child can pass it onto other families that wouldn't otherwise face exposure.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'll just point out that if he'd followed a normal routine instead of hiding out like some bizarre fugitive he probably wouldn't have caught it in the first place.

Who's hiding out? I specified unnecessary travel.

[Lorizael]

I'm gonna be about a mile away from an Ebola patient later today. I may have never had this much implicit faith in my government before.

[Colon™]

I live in the city were Ebola was discovered. Beat that.

(Congolese and West-Africans not allowed to reply)

[Sava]

I've toured an infectious disease testing lab and have been within arm's reach of ebola (behind glass).

[kentonio]

Did you get to wear one of those awesome suits?

[Sava]

No.