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Dallas: Workers Spray Ebola Patients’ Vomit Off of Sidewalk with Pressure Washer and No Protective Clothing (Photos and Video)
Ebola carrier Thomas Eric Duncan – the guy who brought Ebola to Dallas – vomited outside his apartment building.
A WFAA tv news chopper took the following photograph showing how workers are cleaning up the vomit:
Notice that the woman wearing sandals is about to step onto the run-off:
And here’s another screenshot showing a guy walking through the power-wash runoff:
Couldn’t they be tracking it on the bottom of their shoes as they
move around? What about the power-wash guys? Where did they go next?
That’s a pretty good way to spread Ebola … especially if experts are right that Ebola spreads through aerosols.
Similarly, the Ebola patient’s sweat-stained sheets were left on his bed for days without being removed … even though his family was quarantined in the same room.
As we noted yesterday, arrogance and carelessness may lead to unnecessary deaths.
Update: WFAA TV Dallas/Fort Worth Channel 8 news says that the Centers for Disease Control ordered the sidewalk to be power-washed:
Apparently, they didn't tell anyone to use protective suits, or to keep residents or passersby away while power-washing.
And from the casualness of the guys doing the power-washing, it is unlikely
that (1) they put any disinfectants in the power-washer or (2) they were even told what they were cleaning.
Heck of a job ...
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dumb, dumb, dumb, that's why, eh? catchy refrain. and this is imho the problem with our times
questioning authority - a good thing, imho - becomes everybody is entitled to an opinion - also a good thing - and then degenerates to "you are dumb, dumb, dumb" without even passing by at facts, or even expose a different opinion
if you had posted that ebola is too infective to be faced behind a simple spray of water, at least we'd be in the details. if you'd said that you want Dallas full of people in HazMat suits cleaning everything, we'd be talking about possible constructive solutions
but you bring a simple video, a weak insult and think you exercised your first amendment rights. worse, you think you contributed
go wash your hands, will you? oh, but this is too authoritarian, eh, telling you how to live. tell you what: viruses don't care about freedom
ebola was first identified in 1976. it did not spread (yet) over the whole greater landmass of this planet, not even the whole of Africa. though perhaps it had to wait until it got in a place where people know everything better
Heavens Ghordius, don't expose anyone to a different opinion!
It could go viral ;-)
sorry, nmewn. I am just a carrier of memes infecting my brain and forcing me to propagate them. in my defense, I seldom have an original thought, so I can't be called patient zero
on the other hand, sometimes fashion kills critters. the pubic lice, for example, is getting nearly extinct, in the first world. fine carrier of diseases, it was. so perhaps I should engage the Kardashians in a "How many times do Kardashians wash hands per day?" series
the only celebrity worth paying attention to right now is russell brand
lol...now there's something that will seize the publics attention ;-)
Remember, each administration is worse than the one before it.
$50 says those guys have literally NO idea what it is that they are actually cleaning up...
This reminds me of the SNL skit back in the day when (Dan Ackroyd) played Jimmy Carter and he went into Three Mile Island wearing his protective yellow boots and started mopping up the radioactive water...
The Pepsi Syndrome
They'd have to be able to speak English to know what they are cleaning up
The cleanup protocols in Africa look quite good even with limited resources.
This is just plain dumb!
Who is running the show in the US?
DARWIN THEORY will prevail, the dumb ones will die. ( USA).
Law suits in the making. Who sent them to do that job?
How can you have a law suit when the courts are shut down because all the judges and lawyers are bleeding out through their eyes? Just wondering.
DeadFred, Thanks for painting that beautiful picture this morning. You made me smile.
The perfect storm, then some fair minded folk that hang out here can step in and appoint ourselves. The odds are at that point anyone that was going to off anyone else is dead anyway.
Obama did it!
Obama: SoS: Spawn of Shrub
off topic, but I don't care...
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Massive spike in volume over 300,000. Love it. Stack up that phyzz, bitchez!
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Get your orders placed now for phyzz. You can wait to see if it drops to 16 or 15 or 10, but at the same time there won't be any supply and premiums might spike to 25% or higher just to off-set the downward paper price manipulation, so don't fucking wait to add to your stacks.
This has America's dirtiest jobs beat by far.
calling CDC...calling CDC, New Vector found.
Fxck CDC...useless bunch.
Useless? The dual-citizen head of the CDC says not to worry:
Aerosolizing dried bloody vomit with a powerwasher is the key. And these guys are experts, damn it! Who the hell is ZH to question advanced infectious disease control techniques?
CDC head Frieden is from the government and he just assured you. Hell, that's about as iron-clad as it gets. See here:
CDC director on Ebola in U.S.: "We're stopping this in its tracks"
They are kicking ebola's ass in every possible hiding place (except the dirt next to the sidewalk where the kids play - they can't powerwash that)