North Carolina Tar Heels

[sardis]

World Cup loses out to the Olympics? The Winter one at that.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2022-oly ... up-2014-10

[Bklyn]

ISIS is gonna run the Qatar World Cup, so it will happen when they damn well want it to.

[Jungle Rat]

I hope your playing

[eCat]

this kid passes out on a slingshot ride, comes to, and realizes he is on a slingshot ride - passes out again, and does it one more time for good measure

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[Bklyn]

Hilarious.

[eCat]

can you imaging waking up and realizing you are 200 feet in the air on some fucked up ride?

[eCat]

Dallas commissioners have set a meeting tomorrow for 2pm under the assumption (as tweeted out by the local NBC affiliate) they are going to declare a state of emergency.

the fear driving it is due to the lack of precautions taken by the nursing staff dealing with the ebola patient who died. With the second nurse getting on a plane while having a fever and nasty rumor going around she isn't the last medical professional that will come down with it, Dallas officials are going to take these steps to get things locked down.

[AlabamAlum]

It was a clusterfuck. Lotsa mistakes made in Dallas.

/Cue Jeff Goldblum giving his Chaos Theory speech in Jurassic Park.

[eCat]

I am glad this is happening in Dallas - because it will show other cities what to do or not to do if it shows up.

Quite frankly I'm stunned it hasn't shown up in any city other than Dallas by now.

[AlabamAlum]

The shame is a lot of reasonable people in Dallas objected to the plan Dallas Presbyterian put into to effect. No mandatory training for staff? Mandating minimum standard protective wear? No mandatory seclusion or travel restrictions for close-contact staff? No warning alarm system for the EMR when a symptom cluster presents?

That said, I think it will be okay.

[eCat]

The Belton, Texas, school district notified parents late tonight that three of its schools will be shut down Thursday after it came to light that a couple of students were passengers on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas — the same flight Ebola victim and nurse Amber Vinson was on.

[eCat]

seems to me we need to move this ebola threat out of the hospital and treat these people externally.

The reality is that no one is going to trust that hospital in the short term - and you have to wonder how many patients are going to receive inadequate care because of the perceived threat of ebola - by either not going to the hospital or making decisions to go to other hospitals.

I'd treat ebola patients outside the hospital and keep the staff separate. High cost I know, but this hospital, right or wrong, was the first test of our health care system to fight it - and it failed.

The patient wasn't admitted immediately - and the guy was a poster child for Ebola threat, he ultimately died and at least 2 nurses are now infected, one with gross negligence by getting on a damn airplane.

Honestly, can you imagine a hospital doing any worse?

[crashcourse]

as long as ms vinson was not shitting all over herself or throwing up I dont think anyone on that flight is in danger

that said I'd hate to have been in the same row as her on that flight

[eCat]

as long as ms vinson was not shitting all over herself or throwing up I dont think anyone on that flight is in danger

that said I'd hate to have been in the same row as her on that flight

its more about the damage that has been to trust the "local" health care professionals in this country to not only treat ebola but be willing to commit to the necessary precautions to prevent it from spreading.

so far they are- 0 for- in both instances

[crashcourse]

"Honestly, can you imagine a hospital doing any worse?"

yes I can. most would have been on par with how that hospital performed. you just dont budget hazmat suits for everybody/training for ebola pateints etc etc when there hasnt been a case yet. very few hospitals have had any training on ebola and even after the first pateint showed up I doubt most hospitals in america are ready to handle a potential ebola pateint.

those nurses certainly came in contact with the deceased body fluids. my guess is they improperly took off their protective gear after they were done cleaning him up. amazing thing is how many of these nurses are screaming that impoper precautions were taken in that ER when that pateint came back. they should be screaming at themselves as nursing often timnes makes those decisons on fluid/wound/respiratory etc etc what kind of precautions needs to be taken

[eCat]

Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reportedly confirmed that they gave Ebola patient Amber Vinson permission to fly on a commercial plane Monday, even though she had a low-grade fever, according to several reports.

Vinson, 29, is the second medical worker to contract Ebola after having close contact with deceased Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

[crashcourse]

I saw pics of her walking onto the plane and onto the ambulance

If i were ms vinson i would sell my antibodies to the highest bidder

[eCat]

the first year Dallas is a good team and the town is going to be evacuated

I think its safe to say God hates the Cowboys

[eCat]

The 3-day window of Sept. 28-30 is now being targeted by investigators for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the key time during which health care workers may have been exposed to the deadly virus by Duncan, who died Oct. 8 from the disease.

Duncan was suspected of having Ebola when he was admitted to a hospital isolation unit Sept. 28, and he developed projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea later that day, according to medical records his family turned over to The Associated Press.

But workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas did not abandon their gowns and scrubs for hazmat suits until tests came back positive for Ebola about 2 p.m. on Sept. 30, according to details of the records released by AP.

[hedge]

"he developed projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea later that day"

This kinda reminded me of Rat...

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