wags wrote:Luis,
Living 15 clicks from Gatwick and knowing someone who travels to Gambia regularly sought of raises the alarm bells. Gambia is free of it at the moment but it is surrounded.
The predicted map was not great news, seems the UK is most likely with Belgium, USA and Germany.
21 day incubation period is really bad news, only the virus itself which appears pretty fragile and not an aerosol means it is beatable, but are the powers able to get their act together quickly. The vaccine is the solution but that may take time as well. I am thinking of secondary affects as well. May get sudden panic buying, and that could be a real problem here. They may be saying things to keep things from becoming unpredictable.
All true.
But they may be also saying things to keep things predictable.
So, which way to go ?
"Chicken soup and prudence don't hurt" as we say around here, so of course if you have someone close who travels to where "it" is rampant, maybe best to avoid getting near him for one never knows. I myself - today - had to meet with a client who yesterday returned from Angola, where he stayed for these last two weeks. I kept contact to the civilized minimum (shake hand in, shake hand out, no touchee nothing and my suit is now dry cleaning, after I undressed it in my bathroom and put it inside a plastic garbage bag) besides having brougt along to the meet a flask of something the wife had bought for the (ahem) "Flu pandemic" and washed my hands thoroughly afterwards when I got to the car, and later on, naked in my house, a good body rub ... I have to confess to these sillynesses !
But hey, "Who has an asshole, has Fear" as we also say here. So, sure.
Question is - are we facing something like the HIV virus, or is it airborne ?
EVERYONE says it isn't airborne. That it can only get at you if you "exchange" or get "in touch with" body fluids.
Now, this Spanish nurse thing (precisely today) is a curved ball, so to speak. It seems she was "full metal jacketed", meaning, completely bio protected while treating the Ebola patient ... and even so, she got it. How come ?
Needs figuring out. And it will be, make no mistake. Simply too big an issue to be "uncertain". Either she was fully jacketed, or not.
And there are already some reports that things (ahem) were not exactly kosher inside that hospital regarding the bio jackets.
IF - and only IF - this thing is airborne, will I run for the hills.
Then again, my call is (a) it is not airborne, and (b) this all will be over soon.
Only thing missing is a big pharma's drug being marketed, to clinch it.