When in trouble,
Or in doubt.
Run in circles,
Scream and shout.

-- Heinlein

Well, I will definitely disagree with you. Transporting the patient certainly entails risks, it's not a freebee. Yes, Texas Presbyterian was not particularly prepared but they were dealing with patient zero as far a de novo infections are concerned. It turns out to be non trivial to keep full protections up, technique is very, very important. Therefore, it's not surprising that folks on the bleeding edge of the problem might bleed a bit.

Now, if we have the same problem in a couple of months, then we have issues. That would say that either health care workers are untrainable or there is something in the biology that we don't understand.

Be very sure that health care workers around the work are busily studying the CDC guidelines and protocols and this time, they might actually learn them.

TFA looks very much like a prototype to me. I would imagine that production units would have a slicker way of adjusting the counter weight. But yeah, that thing looks like it would be in way all of the time, especially in the narrow confines of a ship's interior.

You do realize that one thing that the ACA (aka Obamacare) does is take the teeth out of pre existing clauses, do you not? Or are you too busy ranting and raving to actually look at the real world?

You're insane. The insurance companies are at the end of the line here. Things are going to happen way too fast for insurance companies to change their policies, treatments are going to be medically necessary, the only question is whether the extra costs entailed by the infection precautions are going can be charged back to the patient's insurance (likely with a subsequent hissy fit about actually paying it).

No one is going to call Aetna and say 'can we treat Ms. Doe for potential Ebola exposure?' - that's not the way the system works. This sort of thing is something insurance companies hate - fast moving problems that can't rationally be refused. And hospitals are already on the hook for uninsured patients due to the EMTALA laws.

Not to worry, Citizen. Soon, with Ebola coming to your doorstep, you will be stripped naked each and every time you enter a building. And you can be damn sure that we will be monitoring this.

It's time to buff up. Get out of your shop and out to the gym!

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Well yes, of course. Google likely used a Dromedary Camel as is standard for most uses. Microsoft would have used a Bactrian camel just to be different. That extra hump would have certainly changed the view.

Oops. STOP THE PReSSES!

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So have I, along with the majority of drivers in rural America. I'm still working at my first pedestrian in a wheelchair, though.

Indeed.

Camels aren't 'happy' no matter what they are doing or where they are. They are the most mean, cruel and foul tempered ungulates you've ever set eyes on.

It probably got to spit on it's handlers, something you likely have never been able to get away with.

Rule 1: Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.