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lyra|1413748950|3769478 said:I'm sorry, but the US and North America in general, are fully capable of handling the ebola cases that might pop up here. It's expected that there will be some. The countries in Africa are not equipped enough to deal with it, and that's why THEY are having such a horrible time with it. Send donations, don't just sit and say NIMBY!! Seriously, we are sending troops and medical workers and supplies there to help. Contain the problem at it's source, don't worry about something happening here that can't be handled. It can be handled here. The people who have been infected on US soil are all doing well with treatment.
Absolutely. Our healthcare system is not overwhelmed, it is under-executing. All this has done is show us the areas where we need to up our game. FAST. As several of our PS members who are either in or around the healthcare world have pointed out, it's long past due for hospitals and doctors/nurses to start taking basic sanitation protocols seriously again. They've gotten very sloppy, and I can't for the life of me understand why. Maybe the specter of ebola, as scary as it is, will start making health workers take this stuff seriously again.
As a bit of a tangent, I was talking to my aunt last night, and she said she'd be sick with some upper respiratory and vicious sore throat crud for about 2 weeks now. She said she'd gone to the doctor, who actually cultured her throat. He found nothing bacterial. SO......he gave her these monstrously sized amoxiycillins. He found nothing, yet gave her an antibiotic anyway. And we wonder why we are at the end of working antibiotics. Doctors have a bunch to answer for, for helping create the post-antibiotic world we are now entering.