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Planning an overseas trip? Better get a flu shot now
By adamg on Mon, 10/13/2014 - 4:18pm
WCVB reports it's Code Red Hazmat Day at Logan Airport, where a plane arriving from Dubai has basically been quarantined as health workers in moon suits escort out several passengers with flu-like symptoms. None of the five, the station reports, were from West Africa.
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Our healthcare system rocks
Despite all the naysayers and complaints about America's and MA's healthcare system, this shows how we're still the best in the world bar-none. If you are feeling sick and enter the state we'll send a team of heatlhcare workers to your seat! No need to call a doctor or even leave your chair; we're on it.
They Should Use Registered Nurses As Flight Attendants Again
hmmm...
Just thinking outside the hazmat suit for a second, what are the chances Al Qaeda could purposely & unknowingly infect individuals or attempt to send their own infected suicide agents to the US? I'm sure someone in a windowless office has already crunched the numbers on this but it seems worth asking.
Suicide Ebola agents
I was thinking the same thing. There are suicide bombers, why not suicide Ebola-infected agents? Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it bears looking into.
Because it's a kind of a dumb way to get people sick, that's why
You're not infectious until you show symptoms and if you have symptoms, you're either not going to be moving around much or be so obvious that it's going to be like those scenes in Monster, Inc. when the monsters are exposed to children - or that scene on the airplane at Logan today: You'll be put into isolation faster than you can vomit on somebody. Now that we're into full panic mode, no hospital is going to repeat the Dallas mistake and let an infected person just walk out.
They'd have much better luck with measles or the flu - both of which kill far more people than Ebola.
This was the subject of Clancy's Executive Orders
This was the subject of Clancy's Executive Orders
Here goes the hysteria again
Is this going to happen every single time someone exhibits "flu like symptoms"? With my allergies I'd be dragged off every plane, bus or train I ever got on. Is Dubai a hotbed of Ebola?
Like I said
Like I said in the previous Boston Ebola thread yesterday..
Boy I can't wait for Cold and Flu Season to be in full swing. Its going to be a nightmare and a lot of people thinking everyone has Ebola.
The vomit express
In the next few weeks I can see a passenger on the T who has the flu or in drug withdrawal starting a stampede when they get sick on a train
If I cough a lot
...can I grab a seat and have nobody sit next to me?
The B and E lines
on Halloweekend are going to be fun.