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Originally Posted by ladyjane  When you quote others, credit should be given. I am not arguing, just saying what I believe should be done.
Jeanie made a statement that looked like her thoughts, calling Ebola a wimpy virus, but when I questioned her she then said it was a doctor who said it. If she had said that from the get go I would not have questioned her about her thoughts. I probably should go read this though because I wonder about the context in which he said this because this virus has people concerned enough to wear stuff you would wear on Mars to survive. |
To avoid giving those who haven't read my posts a very wrong impression, let me clarify that I didn't call Ebola a "wimpy virus" at all but actually made the statement that it was a "wimpy virus off its host" and then in begins to die relatively quickly.
Big difference. I learned and exhaustively posted and offered links to official healthcare articles/advisories that the experts say it's anything but wimpy in the human body and bodily fluids of a patient or body with a high viral load and my references to "biohazard", "deadly" and similar terms, and the absolute need to take full precautionary measures and proper after- cleaning/disinfection measures in my posts tends to fully underscore that.
The point I was trying to stress in latter posts is that, oddly, outside its host, the Ebola virus is wimpy by comparison to some hardier but less deadly viruses, doesn't live long out in the environment and is easily killed with most basic cleaning and disinfectant agents, UV light, including sunlight, heat, etc. So we don't have to fear going out and about or visiting the facilities where Ebola patients are being treated, fearing we'll readily contract Ebola from the air or off any surface a sick patient sometime touched.