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There's a petition on a website to have nurse Kaci Hickox's license revoked for refusing quarantine after working directly with Ebola patients in West africa.

Sure do...how is it that you fight a quarantine, but insist that I take a vaccination that apparently doesn't react well with me. If it did that to my arm, I only can imagine what would happen if I take it nasally. Are you afraid of the flu, but not Ebola? Does the thought of me sneezing haunt you in your sleep like the boogey man. At least if you were to catch the flu from me, you can take Tamiflu. What are you gonna take when Kaci gives you Ebola lol?

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If I were to catch the flu from you, it would likely kill me, since I am immunocompromised from asthma and cancer. Tamiflu wouldn't do didly for me; besides it's not my responsibility to medicate myself for your bad choices. Why do you think most hospitals require staff to get the vax or wear a mask during flu season? It's a conspiracy!

This was amusing in the beginning, but I find your comments tiresome and unprofessional. I guess you'll have to find someone else to play with.

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Sure do...how is it that you fight a quarantine, but insist that I take a vaccination that apparently doesn't react well with me. If it did that to my arm, I only can imagine what would happen if I take it nasally. Are you afraid of the flu, but not Ebola? Does the thought of me sneezing haunt you in your sleep like the boogey man. At least if you were to catch the flu from me, you can take Tamiflu. What are you gonna take when Kaci gives you Ebola lol?

You do realise that Tamiflu shortens the symptoms of influenza type illness by half a day don't you?

Have you heard of Spanish Flu in 1918.

Flu Is A Far Greater Menace Than Ebola In US - Forbes

I don't know if Forbes is a reputable site but you can find plenty of others.

May I inject a little humour into this;

And also some seriousness.

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Since when has asthma immunocompromised anyone? Cancer, sure, but asthma? I don't ever recall asthma compromising my immune system, my lungs maybe, but not my body's natural ability to fight (let's say) an infection in my arm or leg. It's amazing that you care about contracting something now, but could care less about people who are arguing the same exact thing about Ms. Kaci and the uncertainty of what to do to contain Ebola. This boggles me? And out of curiosity, before you were REQUIRED to get annual flu shots by your employer, how many times did you actually contract the Flu? I caught mine at work from a patient who I begged the doctor to test for, but no one believed he had it because it was summer and "not flu season." After three days of giving him hugs and reassurance because he didn't know what was happening and at that time all his tests were negative, we would eventually test him for flu and find him to be positive. Three other nurses caught the flu, and those three were vaccinated.

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I like that poster Grumpynurse. I really hate that situation in Africa. It seems like there is always something of catastrophic nature happening to a continent of soooo many.

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. . . They tried her method of letting asymptotic people run free and self report....

I don't cite Wikipedia for most things, but occasionally it's just right for here.

"In mathematical analysis, asymptotic analysis is a method of describing limiting behavior. The methodology has applications across science. Examples are

  • In applied mathematics, asymptotic analysis is used to build numerical methods to approximate equation solutions.
  • in computer science in the analysis of algorithms, considering the performance of algorithms when applied to very large input datasets.
  • the behavior of physical systems when they are very large, an example being Statistical mechanics.
  • in accident analysis when identifying the causation of crash through count modeling with large number of crash counts in a given time and space."

I don't think that quarantine is the kind of limiting behavior this is talking about.

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However, Kaci has been in DIRECT contact with patients who are at their most infectious. I have also heard from sources that her roommate had contracted the virus.

Ummm, no. She was properly garbed. And the roommate does not have Ebola.

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It can be if the virus can remain infectious on surfaces up to 50 days.

And if my grandmother were a teapot she could whistle.

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GrnTea, no disrespect but Hun this topic has been beaten to death so much so that the horse has made its way far past heaven. If it's not apparent by now it should be, but my opposition is the only thing keeping this thread going. Honestly this thread was past it's prime the day after it was posted, but I continued to engage random posts because it was (at first) interesting to see the same passion reciprocated in an opposing poster. Now, it's becoming redundant and repetitive. I'm sorry I don't have more for you ;).

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I have also inadvertently parked in someone's vomit, walked through someone's cough cloud lol, urinated so hard that I had splash back :yawn:, forgot to wash my hands before eating, bit my fingernails while my hands were dirty, shook some questionable hands, took a sip of the wrong drink, and the list goes on. I live normally when I go out.

And yet ... you (and your baby) have lived to tell the tale. I since there are no reputable reports of fomites (ah! fomites! memories ... ) spreading Ebola, I guess you can back the heck off on all this.

But just to be safe, maybe better not to buy pizza in Maine. I mean, the highway goes all the way from Fort Kent, and perhaps she rode her bike near an access road and coughed up a loogie there, and it got stuck in somebody's tire treads, and gee howdy, there goes the whole of New England.

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I know Santa isn't real, but if it makes my child feel comfortable at night knowing Santa is coming on Christmas, my husband and I will gladly keep that charade going however ridiculous it makes us look.

Oh, OK, just so we're all clear on that.

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And if my grandmother were a teapot she could whistle.

I just burst out laughing on this quiet and rainy Saturday after reading this. My husband is starting at me and I am over here actually laughing my ass off. Out loud.

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