Ebola

[WoodyO]

I didn't read a single word of it, but I'm sure it was a good story.

 

[PICK3]

Your mom thought it was a cool story

my mom thought dick

 

[AFeedz]

oh god, everyone who gets to know me knows I really wanna be a prepper. lolo

But don't let myself get that far, I just like to talk. It's interesting to me to think about different scenarios and disasters like this have always morbidly fascinated me. Watching the questions the reporters asked Josh during the white house briefing this week. It's like a real life movie only the actors are way less competent. Remember back in the day when the disaster movies.. think Armageddon... and they always portrayed United States like AMERICA FUCK YEAH SAVIOR OF THE WORLD then you realize IRL it's nothing at all like that and no one is coming to save you, because they can't.

Honestly though guys, do you not know any nurses? I'm close to a lot of nurses and even if those of us out and about aren't gonna get this tomorrow...read The Hot Zone. The nurses and our hospitals are not prepared for this yet and they are uneasy and if something doesn't change, there will be no one to treat anyone. They have kids and families too. We aren't prepared for more than a handful of cases here and what happened in Dallas is frightening to think that they thought we were so prepared and our healthcare system so superior and come to find out, only 4 hospitals in the US are equipped to deal with this. Most of us are anxious of the idea of puking up our liquified digestive system, not being able to get pain meds bc you can't insert a needle, and well honestly, your vagina can disintegrate. I'm just saying.

I know lots of people in the medical field. If I were a nurse at this point though, I would take it upon myself to read everything I could about ebola and about the regulations and safety measures health workers should be using.

The first nurses who got it get a pass (barely) because it was unexpected. Honestly at this point, if any nurse, doctor, etc. is contaminated treating someone in the US, it's their own fault. They can't blame the hospital anymore like nurses in Dallas are doing. It's their job, they should be doing follow up on their own. Plenty of jobs require that you continue learning pretty much forever and nursing is one of those jobs.

Funny thing is, even with the first nurses, if I was told I had to treat someone with an infectious, potentially deadly disease, I can't imagine myself taking someone's word on what to do or winging it like they did. I'm sure as hell I'd find out exactly what I had to be wearing and what the guidelines were with the CDC, which none of them did. It's ridiculous to me they aren't more accountable with all the "they never taught us this. They didn't prepare us. Etc" They knew what they were treating and they chose not to go get answers. Should the answers have been given to them? Yes, but that doesn't excuse not going to find them when they weren't provided.

Is that mean? At every job I've ever had, I'm expected to do and know things that people won't show or tell me. It's extra work than it could have been, but you do it cuz it's your job - and you'd think they'd be more inclined to do so considering lives are at stake. I blame them as much as I blame the hospital for not giving them proper training.

 

[AFeedz]

I did read only 7-8 beds in the US are ready for an Ebola patient though. Hopefully after this first failure, our shit is together enough that we don't need them.

 

[-SD-]

Your mom thought it was a cool story

Dorothy Mantooth is a saint

 

[caligirl85]

Dorothy Mantooth is a saint

lololol

 

[miplank]

I know lots of people in the medical field. If I were a nurse at this point though, I would take it upon myself to read everything I could about ebola and about the regulations and safety measures health workers should be using.

The first nurses who got it get a pass (barely) because it was unexpected. Honestly at this point, if any nurse, doctor, etc. is contaminated treating someone in the US, it's their own fault. They can't blame the hospital anymore like nurses in Dallas are doing. It's their job, they should be doing follow up on their own. Plenty of jobs require that you continue learning pretty much forever and nursing is one of those jobs.

Funny thing is, even with the first nurses, if I was told I had to treat someone with an infectious, potentially deadly disease, I can't imagine myself taking someone's word on what to do or winging it like they did. I'm sure as hell I'd find out exactly what I had to be wearing and what the guidelines were with the CDC, which none of them did. It's ridiculous to me they aren't more accountable with all the "they never taught us this. They didn't prepare us. Etc" They knew what they were treating and they chose not to go get answers. Should the answers have been given to them? Yes, but that doesn't excuse not going to find them when they weren't provided.

Is that mean? At every job I've ever had, I'm expected to do and know things that people won't show or tell me. It's extra work than it could have been, but you do it cuz it's your job - and you'd think they'd be more inclined to do so considering lives are at stake. I blame them as much as I blame the hospital for not giving them proper training.

tl;dr

 

[-SD-]

Chicks think this is a gotdam english composition class and shit

 

[AFeedz]

You're jelly cuz your state is infecteddddd.

 

[-SD-]

You're jelly cuz your state is infecteddddd.

Am starting to get concerned