The Goat Pen

Ya knew that was coming. One day the Homer will figure out the right thread.

Shit just got real...................

Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. has admitted a patient with possible symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus "in an abundance of caution," it said in a statement on Friday.

The patient, who had recently traveled to Nigeria, is in stable condition and is being treated in isolation, a hospital spokeswoman said, adding that she could not provide additional details about the case because of patient privacy.

Time to thin the heard.

To soon?

I hear it's too late.

So HUH has a scare? Interested to see how this plays out. This is how the thriller movies all start...

Too bad the ebola couldn't start thinning the herd with BRM. That would buy the human race a couple of centuries...

Bklyn wrote:So HUH has a scare? Interested to see how this plays out. This is how the thriller movies all start...

meh.

Ebola is spread pretty much the same way HIV is spread. Now if you should be so unlucky as to have someone who has Ebola spit in your mouth OR you work in the healthcare field and you are around Ebola patients all the time, then you are more likely to get exposed to their body fluids in ways other than sex. That's pretty much it. Ebola is not airborne.

innocentbystander wrote:

Bklyn wrote:So HUH has a scare? Interested to see how this plays out. This is how the thriller movies all start...

meh.

Ebola is spread pretty much the same way HIV is spread. Now if you should be so unlucky as to have someone who has Ebola spit in your mouth OR you work in the healthcare field and you are around Ebola patients all the time, then you are more likely to get exposed to their body fluids in ways other than sex. That's pretty much it. Ebola is not airborne.

Not exactly. Ebola is contact. But, currently, it has a shorter window and you are (currently) only at risk when the contact us with a sick person, which drops the R-0 reading to a much lower point.

I think this cheerleader has ebola

http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2014/ ... ir-photos/

Very bad photoshop.

Definitely Photoshop, unless she was cheering commando.

Bklyn wrote:Definitely Photoshop, unless she was cheering commando.

Enlarge it. It's obvious.

so I just finished enrolling in my healthcare for 2015.

I had pretty much prepared myself for the worst so whatever they hit me with wasn't going to ruin my day. Tto summarize it, for an HSA with $750 spending contribution from the company on a 85/15 plan after $4K deductible, a dental PPO with copay, a vision PPO with copay, life insurance at 3X and accidental at 8X , plus 100K life on the spouse is going to cost me about $6800 a year and that includes me dropping $1600 of my own pre-tax into the HSA.

That's an increase of $800 over last year with me adding a better vision plan and dropping $100K down on life insurance.

that's about a $3500K a year increase since the ACA.

I know there are a bunch of people out there that are going to have it worse than me, so I can't decide if I should look on the bright side or be pissed at what I could have done with that $3500 (ok, realistically it would probably be $2900 if things kept going the way they were with average year over year increases).

But that is also going from an HMO with no deductible and a $20 copay to an HSA with a $4K deductible which is a huge swing.

....and you're contributing to deficit reduction.

I know some guys that are dropping like $6K into the HSA and using it as a retirement plan because they've maxed out company matching.

I'm not sure I fully understand the upside of that unless you just want a tax break in April but they think its meaningful.

Who needs insurance these days anyways? The government will cover it.

eCat wrote:I know some guys that are dropping like $6K into the HSA and using it as a retirement plan because they've maxed out company matching.

I'm not sure I fully understand the upside of that unless you just want a tax break in April but they think its meaningful.

HSA is pre-tax, right? That, right there, is enough to utilize it to its fullest. Especially because it never resets.

An interview with the man who discovered Ebola

he spreads some concern - and education about why Africa is so ill equipped to deal with this virus..

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/o ... t-outbreak

Probably because they are Africa.

Swear to god I said the exact same thing as Rat before I saw his response.