07:51 – I had a dream last night. The US House overwhelmingly voted to impeach Obama for malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, and treason. The vote in the US Senate was along self-interest lines, with all of the Republicans and every Democrat who didn’t want to be lynched voting for conviction, for a total of 100:0 favoring conviction. Obama was stripped of his office, his pension, his assets, and his citizenship, and sentenced to be tarred and feathered, then keelhauled, and then transferred to West Africa to work in an Ebola ward. Mrs. Obama was sentenced to go with her husband to West Africa, where she would be responsible for feeding ridiculously inadequate lunches to school-age Ebola patients. President Biden immediately imposed a complete travel ban to bar anyone who had visited the stricken areas from entering the US.
13:53 – Barbara and I are about halfway through season three of Hart of Dixie on Netflix streaming. It’s a farce, set in rural Alabama. I wouldn’t watch it if it were just me, but it does have a lot of cuties.
As we were watching an episode last night, I commented to Barbara that I was surprised to learn that Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. That’s what my elementary school teachers taught me all those years ago, but since 1973 I’ve thought they’d been lying to me. “In Birmingham they love the guv’nor. Boo, boo, boo. Now we all did what we could do.” I guess that’s why I constantly play that riff on my air guitar the whole time we’re watching the show.
Biden? The guy who has been around absolutely forever? He’s a walking talking advertisement for term limits.
Biden is like unto the Indestructible Man or sumthin. Keeps on tickin’.
A longtime pal down in Delaware has told me of several incidents over the decades where he’s lost his shit down there and had major blowup episodes; well-known in those parts that he’s bipolar. But he sent a nice letter to Mrs. OFD when her first husband got killed in a car wreck in ’92 and has suffered grievous losses himself, while also seeing his son serve in the Sandbox combat, which is highly unusual for political types. Ima gon give him a pass for now. Plus his current wife is a cute doctor and she works pretty hard for vets.
Mostly overcast here on the bay so fah; I still have a red light on the internet LED on the new router/modem and if it’s still there later today I’ll be on the horn to Fairpoint again. Off shortly to go pick up HRH at the Canadian border crossing and let her have the cah for the weekend, I guess; Mrs. OFD will be back with the Toyota tomorrow anyway, at least according to the latest “plan.”
I see you have mellowed over the years, I remember when nothing less than a public execution would have been dreamed. By the way pass me some magazines I am out.
Magazines as in reading material or otherwise?
I have both up here. But the otherwise kind tend to get lost during kayaking and canoeing expeditions on the 130-mile-long, 400-foot-deep, lake and associated many hundreds of square miles of watershed.
Dr. Bob’s sentencing guidelines are in accordance with a more merciful and compassionate aging citizen of our “Republic.”
It’s obvious that you smoke a pipe. That’s known as a “pipe dream”.
Years ago Bob was visiting, I fell asleep during witch time I hollered pass me some magazines I’m out he tossed me a guns and ammo, I replied not that for my 45 so he got up went to the gun cabinet returned with some 45 mags gave them to me at witch time I resumed snoring so he told me
Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
Although, if Ebola does get loose in the US, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see Obama impeached. They did it to Clinton for lying about having sex with an intern, and obviously Obama’s responses to the Ebola threat (or his lack thereof) are a lot more serious than that.
I am very disappointed with the performance of the Speaker of the House, but in my opinion, he is the only person in the chain of command who has at least a snowball’s chance of determining the difference between his posterior and a hole in the ground.
Fred is the only guy I’ve ever known who wore a pistol while he was taking a shower. (I am not making this up, seriously.) At least the pistol was stainless steel and the shoulder holster was Cordura rather than leather.
Speaking of which, I just mentioned Fred in the Defense chapter, although not by name. You’re the “friend who sold me a Remington Model 788 in 1979”. Bet you regret not holding on to that one. Of course, I regret not holding onto the Golden State Arms HK41 with scope that I sold you for, IIRC, $900. That thing is worth at least ten times that now.
I thought Obama chose Biden as insurance against impeachment. Who in the Republican Party would want Biden to be the President of the United States? But at some point the President made some comment that made me realize Obama didn’t figure out that Biden was the court jester of his administration until after he had taken office.
still have a 788 in 22/250 and many model 700 s in various calibers also like my blr take downs
Added note those are mostly for hunting for serious issues I have HK ar and fn models
“Fred is the only guy I’ve ever known who wore a pistol while he was taking a shower. (I am not making this up, seriously.) At least the pistol was stainless steel and the shoulder holster was Cordura rather than leather.”
Yeah, I remember. You said he’d watched the shower scene in Psycho once too often… 🙂
Oh my goodness! How appropriate!
http://xkcd.com/1435/
Especially the hover text.
Yes, Ebama XXXXX Obola XXXXX Obama is incompetent at best.
One of Biden’s sons got bounced from the Navy Reserve earlier this year for failing a drug test. He got a waiver to get in last year at age 43 due to a youthful drug incident. He also got a waiver due to his age. (IIRC, unless you are a doctor, a language specialist, etc. the max age is mid-30s.)
His other son is a JAG and spent a year in Baghdad in 2008-9.
Chefs on FN right now. Gal says kale is best deep fried. Admits it’s an issue.
“Watchdog: Obama to bring non-American Ebola victims to U.S. for treatment”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog-obama-to-bring-non-american-ebola-victims-to-u.s.-for-treatment/article/2554956
Really?
@Lynn McGuire: Some of the conspiracy theories put forth in the past in these comments, like the ones about the elites wanting to kill off all but a small servant population, aren’t seeming quite so tinfoil-hatty now, are they?
Obola appoints political operative as ebola Czar.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/17/obama-to-appoint-gore-recount-lawyer-former-vp-chief-of-staff-as-ebola-czar/
‘Hellava job there Brownie”.
Bob, that line about loving the governor in Birmingham is about not judging southerners on the actions of George Wallace.
Don’t forget the song also has the line “Montgomery’s got the answer” near the end.
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/04/15_things_we_have_to_explain_a.html
The bad thing about Montgomery is that the people living there in Lower Alabama have gotten far too used to taxing the people in Upper Alabama for their
petstate tax projects. The major population centers in the state are Birmingham and Huntsville with Mobile a distant third. That usually means that suchpetstate tax projects are funded primarily by the citizens of Jefferson County and Madison County, not the citizens of L.A.I, personally, have been present for more than one lively discussion about the need for a fifty-first state, along the lines of Virginia/West Virginia. We would then have Upper (not North) Alabama and Lower Alabama. Of course, then the argument turns to whether Huntsville or Birmingham should be the capital.
Birmingham proponents say population should carry.
Those of us who live in Huntsville say we have history on our side since Huntsville was the first state capital before it all went south to Montgomery.
Besides, we have more missiles at Redstone than they do in Birmingham…
Finally — somebody in the press brings up the airborne transmission issue:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/six-reasons-panic_816387.html
The entire CDC ought to be dismissed immediately. They have not protected anybody from a damned thing. Send ’em to West Africa with a one-way ticket, if they are so cock-sure of themselves.
Obola appoints political operative as ebola Czar.
Dkreck, you have to remember the old adage “when all you have is a hammer, all problems begin to look like a nail.”
When you are a politician, all problems whether scientific or medical have a political rather than a scientific or medical solution.
Yeah, I got that in 1973 from the “boo, boo, boo” part. I never did understand why so many people think of this as a “conservative” track. It always sound libertarian to me. LS was pro-civil rights, and I’d bet that was true in all respects.
Thanks for the link. The writer sums up my own thoughts on the matter perfectly.
Just carry a magic clipboard to protect yourself.
“…the elites wanting to kill off all but a small servant population, aren’t seeming quite so tinfoil-hatty now, are they?”
Not to me, they’re not; I don’t wear a tin hat but I have seen and read enough by now to know full well the globalist elites would love mass die-off in the world and see the overall pop reduced by at least two-thirds. Leaving themselves and a drone/servant/serf class to keep things running and overseen by a managerial elite. Not only not tinfoil-hatty but a glimpse along the lines of “The Hunger Games,” and other dystopian fiction of the last few decades. It may be fiction, sure, but writers don’t generally get their creative juices and ideas out of thin air.
One other quick point; we have been getting most of our nooz from the MSM concerning the Ebola stuff, ISIS, elections, the NSA, etc., and I don’t see how we can blithely sit here and believe that it’s all good bumf. They tell us whatever they wanna tell us, about everything, and then we form various opinions and take various actions on that basis. They may say, for example, that they have Ebola under control and are taking all possible steps, etc., but what if they’re not? So far it looks pretty bad in terms of control; why not let it rip? Wipe out a few million useless mouths. ISIS? Hell, they got a bunch of our weapons and associated systems already off the Iraqi forces; why not let ’em get a few nuke warheads and run ’em across our laughably open southern border with the streaming multitudes?
But even then, see, we’re getting the info from clearly tainted sources. What if indeed they ARE containing the Ebola stuff? But sowing FUD at every opportunity anyway?
We are taking steps here to hang on in the face of the usual severe weather crises and power outages that we would have to deal with anyway; combined with active defense systems and measures in case such a period lasts for longer than anticipated and other streaming multitudes or just a few desperate stragglers seek to avail themselves of our hospitality without our say-so.
As I said earlier, I live in Huntsville along the banks of the Tennessee River. Considering the fact that until in the pre-EPA days when TVA brought in the tiger mosquito to eradicate the malaria mosquito this was the malaria capitol of the U.S., I have an even bigger worry than airborne transmission.
Can this strain of ebola be transmitted by mosquito and other blood-sucking insects the way rocky mountain spotted fever and the avian flu can be transmitted?
Is the CDC even bothering to investigate the possibility?
@SteveB; would they even bother to tell us if they were? And would that be the truth? We don’t know, do we?
The CDC has thus fah, according to MSM reports, natch, not exactly covered itself in glory.
Taking a page from the SteveF playbook here: if a regime was going to intentionally spread a dangerously lethal organism into its general population for whatever nefarious reason, how would this regime have gone about it differently?
Obola appoints political operative as ebola Czar.
Dkreck, you have to remember the old adage “when all you have is a hammer, all problems begin to look like a nail.”
When you are a politician, all problems whether scientific or medical have a political rather than a scientific or medical solution.
The new Obola Ebola czar is in place to scam out the money (lots of money!) that Congress is going to appropriate for Ebola. Ron Klain did a great job of scamming money out of the Obama Stimulus program that pridefully did not spend a penny on shovel ready projects.
@medium wave
During the last 10 years of my wife’s life due to her job, I had more contact with politicians at a one-on-one level than the average common citizen.
Do I believe that politicians are capable of the things conspiracy theorists accuse them?
Absolutely, if it will further the politician’s personal agenda, power or money accumulation.
I feel the only things that have protected the average citizen so far are:
1.) Your average politician is incompetent. This is why he went into politics instead of getting a real job.
2.) Your average politician will stab other politicians in the back even quicker than he will stab his constituents in the back.
As you should. Everyone should. I’m awesome. Everyone says so. Except my wife, but she’s probably just jealous of my awesomeness, so you can ignore anything she has to say on the topic.
Good points, SteveB; incompetence and mutual treachery. That explains a lot.
And yes, I will ignore whatever bad things Mrs. SteveF might have to say about the awesome Mr. SteveF. Hard to believe she would, though; the awesomeness must be overpowering. As is the playbook; also explains a lot.
What if our globalist elites, for example, were intent on getting lethal expansionist military power to a horde of fanatic psychopathic hadji bastards in the Middle East? How would this regime have gone about it differently?
Can this strain of ebola be transmitted by mosquito and other blood-sucking insects the way rocky mountain spotted fever and the avian flu can be transmitted?
I have wondered this myself. Mosquitoes love me. Forget sitting next to someone on a bus, is Ebola transmitted by those blood-sucking vampires, like malaria and bird flu?
OFD, I can readily see ebola + a large dose of FUD = a stampede to beg congress to take away even more
toilet paperconstitutionally guaranteed rights than after the World Trade Center.Follow that by martial law.
Follow that by invoking the Emergency Powers Act in 2016. Call off the elections and send Congress home until the end of the crisis that will never end.
President Obama for life.
After all, the man studied under tutors taught by Richard J. Daley. Daley’s tutors were taught to be masters of FUD during the Capone days.
The above scenario sometimes keeps me awake nights…
Well this would have been a better choice and even palatable to Obola.
http://www.generalhonore.com/
Go to http://scholar.google.com/ and search for “ebola mosquito”. This’ll give you a whole honkin’ pile of peer-reviewed papers and the like. Harder to read than a similar search on a common search engine, but the results are less likely to be ill-informed and panicky speculation by knuckleheads.
One of my cousins posted this:
I have decided that with regard to the whole Ebola thing to simply stick my head in the sand.
Which, I assure you, is a far better place than the CDC and local government agencies have theirs.
“Well this would have been a better choice and even palatable to Obola.”
And thus might have indicated a seriousness on the part of this regime to get the situation under adequate control.
“Follow that by martial law.”
If this comes about it will be because the regime has created a situational crisis of such proportions and horror that the masses will beg for it and be quite happy with it. If a regime was casting about for test cases and rehearsals for such a thing, gee, how would they go about it, do ya think?
What if our globalist elites, for example, were intent on getting lethal expansionist military power to a horde of fanatic psychopathic hadji bastards in the Middle East? How would this regime have gone about it differently?
You know, Nobolabamarama is SO incompetent, that his tactics to bring down the US are now pretty much hard to disguise. All but the hardest core liberals around me are now questioning what is going on. If it is true that he has been thinking of bringing non-Americans to the US for Ebola treatment, that really nails it. Intentionally bringing that disease here. Hell, not locking out flights from Ebola-infested countries is guaranteed to bring it here — as it already has.
That item of actually importing Ebola sufferers is not getting a lot of press play, but the appointment of a lawyer bud of Biden’s with ZERO medical experience as Ebolabamarama czar is a spit on and a finger to every citizen of the US. How long until our Congress starts impeachment? This is nuts! What does it take? Somebody in Congress contracting Ebolarama?
He says he hugged and kissed first line health care workers caring for Obolorama patients. Really? Really?? He ought to be quarantined! Along with clipboard guy for being so incredibly stupid. We need somebody this stupid as President about as badly as we need an Ebola outbreak. And clipboard guy ought to be in jail. Surely such open stupidity endangering the lives of others is a felony.
And while we are at it, throw that CEO of the air ambulance company who claimed clipboard guy “ensures an even higher level of safety for all involved,” in jail. He is terminally stupid, too.
Well, we have to question now whether it is actually outright stupidity and incompetence here, or is it all deliberate? Can it be, perhaps, that they’ve found it’s not really Ebola, or that it’s Ebola but it’s not actually dangerous or contagious? We don’t really know, do we? Only what they choose to tell us.
As for spitting on us and giving us the middle digit, why, that’s been de rigeur here for many decades now. Murkan history buffs know it was first done by Generals Washington and Lincoln in ye old Commonwealth of Maffachufetts (that’s Benjamin Lincoln,not the other warmongering thug and Chief Thief), and Boy Hamilton and Washington out in ye old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
“Apocalypse Now: Preppers Are Gearing Up for Ebola”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/17/apocalypse-now-preppers-are-gearing-up-for-ebola.html
“It’s showtime for the Doomsday set. As the lethal virus crosses America’s doorstep, prep kits and gas masks are flying off shelves and fringe survivalists are going mainstream.”
“Jason Charles knows the exact moment he will lead his wife and five kids out of their Harlem home, pile into a car, and take off for the wilderness. It will be not long after Ebola reaches the population of New York City, hospitals overflow, and looting begins—when the first riots break out on the streets of Manhattan.”
If you are in Manhattan now then it is too late already if Ebola floods throughout the population.
I am very bothered by the fact that Doctors Across Borders currently has sixteen infected members. And nine dead doctors and nurses. These people are not stupid yet they have lost 25?
“If we don’t all die from nuclear blasts, radiation, and nuclear winter, it will be because of the humanity and common sense–both of which are missing in Washington–of the President of Russia.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/10/paul-craig-roberts/putin-speaks/
“If you are in Manhattan now then it is too late already if Ebola floods throughout the population.”
Or Houston. Dallas. Los Angeles. Boston. Montreal.
Those with any kind of similar symptoms fleeing to the countryside will likely be turned away at best and shot otherwise.
I live next to the third ring around Houston. Also known as the Grand Parkway.
http://www.grandpky.com/
I am already outside of Houston. The city proper that is. But the question is, in the case of Ebola, where does one go? Ebola looks to be communicable as all get out and have a 70% death rate with hospital treatment from an early stage. Untreated, probably 90%. Can you go anywhere in the continental USA that will conceivably not be affected?
“The Walking Dead” TV show exhibits the problem that there is nowhere to go that has not been affected. And, the enormous problems to the cast and crew is not only the walkers but their fellow humans. There are survivors all about, looking for resources also.
“But the question is, in the case of Ebola, where does one go? Ebola looks to be communicable as all get out and have a 70% death rate with hospital treatment from an early stage. Untreated, probably 90%. Can you go anywhere in the continental USA that will conceivably not be affected?”
So we’re told. And so we’re told that it’s Ebola. Yet we have the vids online now of Clipboard Guy, and then Barry talkin chit bout hugs and kisses and so on. Could they be that stupid and careless? I suppose so, but if it’s really Ebola and really that lethal, WTF? Amirite? Sumthin don’t jibe here, sportsfans.
Chuck W said on 17 October 2014 at 16:52
Finally — somebody in the press brings up the airborne transmission issue:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/six-reasons-panic_816387.html
Yeah! For some reason, the impression has been created that passing on the disease takes direct contact with bodily fluids – including maybe skin sweat. There’s also an impression that if it isn’t limited to that, then it’s maybe also airborne droplets of liquid.
Of course, it isn’t limited to that! It can be solids. That’s obvious, but it seems to have been overlooked – or at least the lifetime outside the body seems to have been judged as for HIV which is not very infectious anyway, and which “lives” as little as tens of minutes when it encounters hostile conditions outside the body. NOT! Ebola is incredibly infectious, and quite robust. Can live several weeks as a solid – in or as dust. Certainly, it could be dust stirred off dried blood, vomit, shit, piss, or sweat on those piles of bedding and dressings in the hospital. It could be dust from dried sweat on an airline, train or bus seat, a doorknob, crockery or cutlery – or just drifting in the air; and then inhaled or ingested or touches a moist body surface – like the eyeball or an open wound.
Honestly, Ebola can only be avoided by complete isolation – either of the infected person, or of the one contacting them (as by those isolation suits). The CDC has excellent principles and protocols for avoiding contacting and contracting the infection, and I don’t think it’s fair to blame the people who become infected for a “breach in protocol”. However, people adhering to those protocols (or the people writing-up the protocols) have not adequately comprehended airborne transmission. Yes, it can be as simple as people knowing what is necessary, but failing to communicate it adequately. People walking past infected bedding in a corridor, or “clip-board man”, have almost certainly been adhering to protocols which didn’t take into account airborne transmission. This sort of thing is just going to happen until we get on top of the possible methods of transmission.
And we need to establish quarantine stations which will seem at first to violate current human rights. People must be incarcerated, and stay that way for a month. That will ensure that no-one who is infected gets out, but of course many who are not infected will be exposed. Tough! The way it doesn’t violate their rights is that they don’t have to stay! They can be deported if they aren’t infected already.
I wonder if the people who stayed at home on election day in 2012 are happy. They could have voted against this jerk but didn’t.
“Beware of the fake prepper”
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/fake-prepper/
I wish that I was surprised. Two legged varmints are the worst thing out there.
“Prepping works as planned. Until it doesn’t”
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/prepping-works-as-planned-until-it-doesnt/
I never thought about your bug out place changing character in just 5 years as the economy downtrends. The dude has got some wise thoughts about doing a better job of choosing a bug out location.
Outside life ate up quite a bit of time for me.
Lynne made the comment:
I am very bothered by the fact that Doctors Across Borders currently has sixteen infected members. And nine dead doctors and nurses. These people are not stupid yet they have lost 25?
Add to that number at least two Texas nurses who for the moment can be considered not to be stupid but just ignorant for the sake of argument.
It took a while to find the quote I was looking for. It was in the story that Brad linked to on Thursday.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/06/354054915/firestone-did-what-governments-have-not-stopped-ebola-in-its-tracks
Firestone immediately quarantined the woman’s family. Like so many Ebola patients, she died soon after being admitted to the ward. But no one else at Firestone got infected: not her family and not the workers who transported, treated and cared for her.
In that story they admit they knew nothing about how to deal with an ebola outbreak, yet total amateurs managed to deal with the crisis without any of their clinic (not hospital) personnel getting ill and were able to extend their care to the areas surrounding their plantation. They knew nothing about how to contain a contagious outbreak other than the tried and true method of quarantine, yet they managed to get all the protocols right and are still treating the remaining 3 young patients in their care.
The only difference I can see is that instead of AMA and CDC approved tyvek gear with hoods, surgical masks and gloves their solution was to use the on-hand chemical spill hazmat suits (and, one would presume, their hazmat decontamination showers before disrobing).
And to top it off, these people wearing the hazmat suits had no “clipboard man” to see for them and give them instructions.
Face it, in a chemical spill situation, a “clipboard man” would be a major liability rather than an asset as they would have to drop everything and rescue him rather than deal with the emergency at hand.
NOTE TO THE CDC: If the CDC approved gear has limited visibility and requires a seeing-eye dog, then re-design the hood to at least minimum OSHA specifications for operator safety! Hazmat teams did so years ago.
Of course, such chemical hazmat suits are designed to keep fumes and chemicals from penetrating and have their own self-contained breathing gear. They function in a way that is quite similar to the way a space suit functions and are based on protective suit designs developed by Marshall Space Flight Center for NASA employees who had to deal with such things as fueling a Saturn V with hydrazine.
Total amateurs can safely pull off a stunt like this with the “wrong” gear and no training, yet professionals who supposedly know what they are doing and have the “right” gear get ill.
In my mind this raises the question: Are we even dealing with the same virus here?
What would explain this dichotomy? Perhaps one is natural grown ebola from out in the wild. Perhaps the other is military grade ebola. Military grade viruses of course come with fully developed vaccines for the material handlers and important state officials without whom *koff, koff* the country could not function AND DO NOT behave in the manner in which the root virus from which they are developed behave.
In this scenario, ask yourself this question:
If Obama and his cronies were already vaccinated and wanted to do a little dog and pony show for the great unwashed masses, why not go ahead and hug and kiss potential carriers who have been exposed to the disease?
Exactly.
There’s something really fishy about this whole deal so far.
“I wonder if the people who stayed at home on election day in 2012 are happy.”
Apples and oranges. I stayed home but it didn’t make me happy. Elections here are a total farce, but many who otherwise ought to know that by know still don’t get it. Why bother, if the choice is made for us each time between Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the results get worse every four years regardless. I absolutely and categorically refuse to validate their chicanery and the miserable consequences that ensue, here and around the world.
I’ll say it again; the system here is very badly broken and needs to be cleared away; it will involve much pain and suffering over decades ahead but there is no other way out of this. We recovered from the Revolution, the War Between the States, and both world wars, plus the Great Depression and we should be able to recover from this as well, but the jury is out and I won’t live to see it all, only the beginnings.
For those die-hard voters and election junkies, ask yourself this: will Tea Party Ted Cruz save Murkan Civilization? He’s actually a Harvard and Princeton guy and his wife is an executive with Goldman-Sachs. Think a rerun with Bishop Mittens is the answer? Good luck with that. And meanwhile my current issue of American Conservative magazine has articles describing Obummer as a moderate Republican in the old Rockefeller mold and HILLARY! as potentially the greatest President ever. We’re lost.
For the time being.
You think Mittens or McCann could have been worse?
Sure. Coulda been MUCH worse. McNutter wants us to get heavy into World War IV. Mittens wants to bomb Russia. Either one is likely to kick off a nuke conflagration. At least this asswipe in the WH has only continued the rotten local messes in the Middle East and of course made those worse, but we’re not at war with Russia or China as might otherwise be the case with the two “Republican” jerks.
Lynne made the comment:
Dude, that is the gurlz spelling of Lynn (and highly advocated by me). I am not a she-la!
The only difference I can see is that instead of AMA and CDC approved tyvek gear with hoods, surgical masks and gloves their solution was to use the on-hand chemical spill hazmat suits (and, one would presume, their hazmat decontamination showers before disrobing).
Fox News just had a picture of the nurse Pham in her protective gear. She had a huge hole in her neck below the head piece and the tyvek coverall:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795480/texas-presbyterian-nurse-cared-ebola-stricken-colleague-reveals-protective-suit-gaping-hole-neck.html
Ebola looks to be communicable as all get out
Not really. It’s well below colds, flu, etc.
Yes.
The real issue is that ebola, at least this strain, seems to be one hell of a lot more easily communicable than the authorities are admitting to.