The pics of the vomit cleanup are already being passed around and blaming the President for the idiots in Texas.
It will be the topic on rw radio.

just how much a lot of America resembles a third world shithole these days

thank your local wealth-stripping oligarch, their political flunkies, and their badged attack dogs

There is already plenty of America that has slums, poor medical care and a population of superstitious poorly educated people that don't trust the government.

If it got established in any of those areas, I question the premise that we are "better prepared" to contain it. How much better?

Are they now also in quarantine? Who bagged the bedding and clothes?

They may be immunized already.

Any number of labs could be culturing monoclonal antibodies and other molecules as private medicine.

my opinion.

how long this strain can live on dried body fluids or sweat when it is collected and analyzed. Perfect doctoral project; collection, testing, classifying, etc.

expanded Medicaid or healthcare insurance. In my opinion, this hospital was thinking that he would go on to another hospital. (They were wearing gloves and had not come in contact with his body fluids.)

Rick Perry has some nerve showing up to speak when his policy of no Medicaid Expansion or Medicaid enrollment available at the hospital through doctors, may have caused this. RW is blaming Obama when it is Rick Perry that is really to blame.

trained to do such clean-ups? Shouldn't the CDC have an official crew that moves in situations like this?

If we are trying to stop the spread of a potential epidemic we shouldn't leave the job to untrained local crews that would visit a contaminated site without protection.

Why hasn't the federal government taken control of this situation - even if it is only to present an image of stopping the spread to the American People and perhaps allaying their fears.

Instead we have the MSM fueling the fires of a potential epidemic happening here in the U.S. by making it the main topic of all their newscasts.

If this is a public health treat - it should be treated as such and the federal government - in the form of the CDC should have jurisdiction in such cases. What is the problem here? Why are they leaving this to rookies?

Doesn't the State of Texas have a Public Health Department with trained Haz-Mat professionals? What am I missing here?

Conservatives love, love, love the idea of hiring private firms to do what were once public sector functions. The problem is that when an emergency happens these contractors are often unreliable. I remember when the town I worked for decided to contract out the function of plowing the municipal parking lots. When the largest blizzard to hit the eastern seaboard in years struck, the public works crews cleared the streets quickly and efficiently but the contractor was a no show for days leaving downtown businesses fuming.

If low paid snow plow drivers are unmotivated to come out when it snows how much less likely is some waste disposal company's workers going to be about clearing ebola contaminated waste from an apartment.

Brantly and Writebol produced so much waste that Armory had to dispatch somebody to the hardware store to pick up giant waste containers and store it on site until they came up with a plan. Ultimately, they had to autoclave all the waste and got rid of it with help from the CDC just up the road from them.

I don't know how they can expect ordinary hospitals to do it, never mind contaminated local sites.

I've said all along I didn't have any fears when they brought the medical workers back here in their biocontainment units. My fear was of people who were asympotomatic while traveling, who walked around after developing symptoms and spread it.

This is turning into a wonderful first case, exposing all the pitfalls as we fall into them one after another.

"ducks in a row."

and specially trained staff that were set up over a decade ago to treat researchers who work on Level 4 pathogens in the event of accidental exposures. And even they ran into trouble with waste disposal.

The facility in Nebraska is a 2nd one, I think there is one in Boston and I forget where the 4th is.

Unfortunately for Dallas, they are the test case to see what happens when an Ebola patient is in isolation in a regular hospital.

instead of their little game to put the puzzle pieces together?

Minimum wage, no sick days, no full time, no bennies? Yeah, they might not think it's worth it.