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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwo children from Rwanda are being kept from elementary school in New Jersey because...EBOLA!!11
You see, Rwanda is in Africa......and Africa has Ebola!!!
Nevermind the fact that Rwanda isn't even afflicted by Ebola. Who cares!!
USA! USA! USA!
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/elementary-school-throws-ebola-tantrum-over-two-kids-from-rwanda/
Elementary School Throws Ebola Tantrum over Two Kids from Rwanda
Two elementary school children are being kept from attending Howard Yocum Elementary School in New Jersey because they recently moved to the U.S. from Rwanda, prompting ebola fears from other parents even though Rwanda is 2,600 miles from the west African region afflicted by the ebola outbreak.
The school informed teachers of the two children who were set to start school today, but word got out and parents objected. The family has elected to keep their children home for the twenty-one day potential incubation period.
As Fox 29 pointed out, Rwanda is as far from the ebola outbreak as Seattle is from Philadelphia. That didnt stop the parents of Yocum Elementary from saying the following on record:
Really concerns me. I dont want to keep my boy out of school.
Tell us when we come into the door. Dont smile in my face and have a secret like that.
Fucking idiots!!!
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Insane.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)America is no longer the home of the brave, it's the home of the pantshitters.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)shrike
(3,817 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)malaise
(267,797 posts)but the distance is even further than SF and Boston.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Several people on DU have told me that there is no harm in speculation about implausible mutations and mass casualty. I have asked a few of them if they remember Ryan White. None of them do.
moriah
(8,311 posts).... only be transmitted sexually or through blood-to-blood contact. My Dad had the same disease. I was freaked out at him sleeping with my mother (they had separated when I was 3, before he was diagnosed, but got back together briefly after his diagnosis while I was still a teenager) even with a condom, though. I didn't trust condoms, I knew my sister had been conceived through one and the virus is a lot smaller than sperm. (What does freak me out generally, more, is how many 30+ year old men think that lambskin condoms protect against any condition other than pregnancy.)
However, given there has been one strain of Ebola that is airborne (though thankfully it does not negatively affect humans, we can become the carriers of it and infect other primate species, at least until we clear the virus ourselves), there is a higher potential for it to develop that characteristic than any of the Immunodeficiency Viruses, none of which are airborne in any species to my knowledge.
I still think it would happen in the animal populations that host Ebola first, and we'd realize fairly quickly that people without close intimate contact with patients were getting sick, if that ever happened.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)You just have to assume these people buy all the kook bs they can hear
Why would that school nurse send that letter to begin with ? I would be more in fear of knowing this kind of nurse is first person for my kids if they get sick during school hours = not too smart
and why haven't we secured our borders with the state of Texas???
No one said the real Idiocracy would be as funny as the movie(if you found it funny..)
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)ALL nurses are saints, and they are all experts at everything they do. Well, except infection control apparently, which they need extensive remedial training in donning and wearing gowns and such or learning to think like germs because they just can't seem to remember the basics they learned in school.
I caught hell here for implying that at least some nurses might be supremely unqualified to get within shooting distance of dangerous pathogens because they were clueless.
moriah
(8,311 posts)... I'd say you were supremely unqualified to lecture nurses on proper suiting/desuiting procedures. Which do require practice, just like anything else -- and continuous practice, not just school for it.
I'd FAR rather have a nurse draw my blood than, say, a doctor. He practiced it during his residency, then left it up to the nurses for a decade or more. People who draw blood all day are my preference, as it usually only takes one stick with them -- unless they're inexperienced or just out to torture me, which is what it's felt like a few times.
Hence why DWB is has such a low nosocomial infection rate for their employees -- because their people are given the proper training and the proper equipment to deal with Ebola, as well as drilled in it before patient contact. Not a 10 minute "training video" and then being expected to suit up and get unsuited perfectly, without contaminating yourself while taking off the protective gear, and face real live Ebola patients and their puking of blood.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)helped
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"ALL nurses are saints.."
No more, and no less than the corollary is valid.
However, I've yet to read either being stated on DU... merely re-stated, re-interpreted and re-defined for dramatic effect by posters who need the melodrama to better cover up a lack of any real valid premise.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)You can't prove it didn't!!!!!!!!!!!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I'm so stealing that....
lunasun
(21,646 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)Then there was the anthrax scare and the panicked run on duct tape and plastic sheeting.
And after Jaws came out there were people who wouldn't swim in fresh-water lakes.
Pants-shitters is right.
MineralMan
(146,190 posts)That truth is responsible for much of the pain in the world.
surrealAmerican
(11,339 posts)... to teach geography. Did they not have a map to show these ignorant parents?
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Among other things so many Americans are ignorant about is basic geography.
I bet half of the parents who are freaking out could not find Africa on a map, let alone point correctly to the part of the continent that is currently experiencing Ebola.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,481 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)their kids home and let the two Rwandans go to school.
JI7
(89,172 posts)there are people who are truly ignorant fuckwads. and these types are even worse than those who just don't have any b interest and don't vote because these types actually think they are informed.
they are the attention whores who fill those stupid panels of "undecided" voters during debates and other things on the whore shows.
JI7
(89,172 posts)who had an accent there will be stupid fucks who just see black/accent and immediately think ebola.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)it happened to gay men and Aids back in the 80s.
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City Lights
(25,171 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)flight this just does not make sense.
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)or something?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)One such wingnut allegedly was Sarah Palin. The fact that Rwanda is farther from Liberia than Los Angeles is from Boston is irrelevant because Africa is a country full of black people with terrible diseases who will come to America and give us all ebola and sap us of our precious bodily fluids or something.
Fact is, America has more than its share of pants-wetting idiots.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)you know, the flyover states. Liberal eastern and western states are the only bastions of enlightened perfection. What gives?
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)Atlantic City NJ is south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
That school is in Maple Shade, which is only about about 15 miles north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
So... much of New Jersey is actually in the south!
But really - I'm from New Jersey and there are plenty of stone-cold idiots there just like there are everywhere.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)Anybody else as depressed as I am over this?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)There are also many Americans that will vote for Republicans this coming election because they think the GOP will keep them safe from ISIS and Ebola.
This country just might be beyond repair.
NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,354 posts)"Abundance of caution" is definitely becoming my favorite phrase in all of this!
treestar
(82,383 posts)ecstatic
(32,566 posts)No new students from West Africa will be allowed to enroll without medical documentation and approval from the county superintendent.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)with the area truly affected by ebola