Thread: Ebola

Originally Posted by Hirlau

About 10 years ago when I was still on the job, an employee of a popular magazine company called and reported a suspicious package had arrived & they wanted the police to respond. The person who received the call was new & I was sent to the complaintant, my questions as to the nature of the suspicious package, while in route, went unanswered.

I arrived & went to the 3rd floor of the building, where a lady approached me with an open postal package, I stopped her a few feet away & asked what's inside. She tilted the box to show me it contained white powder & a note that read, "This is Anthrax and all you B&#$*(^%'s are going to die." The lady had already showed the contents to the entire floor. I sealed the entry & exit points of the 3rd floor & waited for a Hazmat Unit to arrive. We were herded onto a recycled school bus, taken to a large hospital parking lot, made to exit the bus & strip of everything, put all belongings into large bags,,, walked naked in a line to be hosed & scrubbed by people in chemical suits,, then herded naked into a large room, where we were handed hospital gowns. We stayed in the room for several hours.

The powder turned out to be harmless,,,, all my equipment & clothes were destroyed anyway, my gun sonic cleaned.

I didn't hate the ass&ole who sent the package, I was pi$$ed at the system that failed me & my overall lack of training in this area. I had been trained to handle robbers, killers & lost children,,, not death in a box. Re-Training on Bio-hazards started immediately.

The only upside was that the magazine was working a story on the South Beach modeling industry. There were at least 15 models with me,,, I only wished that I had been keeping up with my workouts & had some of my hair left. I arrived home in a hospital gown & not a single phone number.

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Now if only you can get them to make a movie out of that great story.

Originally Posted by mrsell63

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Now if only you can get them to make a movie out of that great story.

Yeah, but I want to pick the actor that plays me, tall, dark , handsome, hair, six-pack, highly educated,,,,,,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Yeah, but I want to pick the actor that plays me, tall, dark , handsome, hair, six-pack, highly educated,,,,,,,,,,

Let me know, I can volunteer for the audition ......

I am a bit more worried about the unseen, baggage handlers etc. They get to pick up the hot sweaty luggage of most anyone. who is checking them out?
~Richard

I read this book back in the '90s, and IIRC the author said that the reason ebola was not an issue was that it was isolated in the backwaters of deepest darkest Africa, and by the time the patient exhibited symptoms they would die too quickly to get out of Dodge.

Obviously things have changed. As far as any government response ....... I think of a special I saw on Nova, IIRC, about the possible consequences that New Orleans would face if they suffered a direct hit by a bad hurricane. That was in the 1980s because I was still married.

We all know what happened when the fatal day came. The hell of it is, New Orleans is still vulnerable to the next one that will someday inevitably come down the pike. We are all playing CYA, from the guy in the White House on down, and not doing a very good job of it. This is proven when the omelet eventually hits the fan time and again.

I think with an open country like the US (and to a lesser degree other countries like Australia) it is unrealistic to think the Government can be completely on top of something like Ebola especially when, as people have pointed out, there are many avenues for it to be introduced.

Having said that, Government policies sometimes do make me wonder. I was listening to an interview on the radio with a representative of our CDC here and she said we've had an ebola (et al) policy for 20 years, part of which is to isolate infected people at their head centre in Westmead hospital.

Westmead hospital is in the middle of the highest and most densely populated city in Australia - Sydney. I'd have thought a head centre in the middle of the outback would be a better option personally.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I think with an open country like the US (and to a lesser degree other countries like Australia) it is unrealistic to think the Government can be completely on top of something like Ebola especially when, as people have pointed out, there are many avenues for it to be introduced.

Looks like your Government has made a decision Jimbo

Latest updates / Australia stops processing visas from West African nations affected by Ebola - World Israel News | Haaretz


LOL Nth Korea has decided that no tourists will be allowed in







or out hehehehehe (that is a bad joke)



info - https://www.internationalsos.com/ebo...ontent_id=435&

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Yeah, but I want to pick the actor that plays me, tall, dark , handsome, hair, six-pack, highly educated,,,,,,,,,,

Gee Jon.....I'de love to help you out but, I'm booked solid man.