Contagious

[lardon]

Hi all, happy to join Mock from Belgium. While most of my co-citizens prefer to spend their energy on quarreling about language issues and cultural differences, I prefer to spend time reading your posts and soon participating. In real life I"m nowadays working on Ebola related things but I found out that these forums are just as contagious. No vaccin needed...

[Duchess]

While most of my co-citizens prefer to spend their energy on quarreling about language issues and cultural differences

Silly thing to bicker about. Don't you find that those differences are what make people interesting?

Lardon, huh. I have a mental image of a human shaped chubby boner.

Is chubby boner redundant?

[lardon]

Right duchess, I never understood why people feel threatened by their differences while it makes this world so much more interesting.
Lucky me that I don't look like a dick.

[Duchess]

happy to join Mock from Belgium.

Beautiful country you live in. All that old world architecture is gorgeous. Business Week says you're one of the most innovative countries in the world. That's quite an endorsement.

Some people here are freakin' out over Ebola. What drew you to working with that?

[HairOfTheDog]

Being or looking like a dick isn't necessarily a bad thing, lardon. You might run into a few at Mock.

Anyway, dicks can be very powerful.

-Dick Cheney conned the western world leaders for years.
-Dick Clark influenced the world of popular music and broadcasting for decades.
-Andy Dick has ODd like 100 times and is still among the living.
-IMaDick was legendary for fearlessly calling out ass-kissers at every turn (before he ran away).

One thing I've learned while handling dicks inside and outside of Mock: don't ever look them straight in the eye and comment on their power and stamina -- you'll just make their heads swell.

Welcome to Mock, lardon. I don't care if you're a dick or not. But, if you're a pussy, you're bound to get screwed.

[Duchess]

So cute & funny. I will never be that clever.

[lardon]

Ebola scares the hell out of everyone and would deserve a place on the Serious Shit forum. Still, we simply can't allow it to kill thousands of people. I work since many years with a humanitarian organization that is currently one of the very few actors fighting the disease. Easy choice actually.

[lardon]

Nothing as healthy to start the day as a good laugh. Thanks Hairofthedog, you've done it

[Duchess]

we simply can't allow it to kill thousands of people.

That's only going to be an issue in third world countries and those people have a serious lack of trust in those who are trying to help them.

[Blindgreed1]

SARS is far more concerning than ebola will ever be. We'll see SARS again.

[Duchess]

Beware grocery cart handles!

[cannongal]

Beware grocery cart handles!

and those little packets of jelly at breakfast places. Babies & Kids are always playing with them.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Beware grocery cart handles!

Publix has wipes right there by the cart line, most of the time I use them, also have Purel in the truck

[HairOfTheDog]

Ebola scares the hell out of everyone and would deserve a place on the Serious Shit forum. Still, we simply can't allow it to kill thousands of people. I work since many years with a humanitarian organization that is currently one of the very few actors fighting the disease. Easy choice actually.

Does the organization perform medical/scientific research in hopes of finding a cure, or does it provide volunteers to Ebola-stricken regions?

I was glad to see a couple of nurses who were recently tested and treated quickly have fully recovered. But, not everyone is so fortunate to know they've likely contracted it before it's too late or to have access to high quality medical care.

Sounds like a very worthwhile effort you've undertaken, lardon.

[Duchess]

Close the borders. Don't let anyone in. No vacancy.

[Carsman]

Close the borders. Don't let anyone in. No vacancy.

AMEN! THE END.

[lardon]

We provide clinics, materials and personnel in the affected areas. More then 3400 volunteers are on the ground, both nationals and internationals. Unfortunately decisions like compulsory quarantine on return are making it much harder to find volunteers. It is a purely emotional, irrational and inefficient decision. People that return from Ebola regions monitor themselves intensively and know what to do if they devellop a fever. Without fever nobody is contagious. During the first days of fever the disease transmits only through contact with blood.

[Duchess]

Rational people understand that, unfortunately the irrational outnumber them.

[Maggot]

Australia just joined many other countries in turning down Visa's from the infected areas. I am wondering why many doctors in those same areas are coming to America and not helping with the situation in their own country. As people start looking for a way out they are becoming more innovative in the way they flee, its almost like kicking an African bees nest.

[Blindgreed1]

We provide clinics, materials and personnel in the affected areas. More then 3400 volunteers are on the ground, both nationals and internationals. Unfortunately decisions like compulsory quarantine on return are making it much harder to find volunteers. It is a purely emotional, irrational and inefficient decision. People that return from Ebola regions monitor themselves intensively and know what to do if they devellop a fever. Without fever nobody is contagious. During the first days of fever the disease transmits only through contact with blood.

You have the media to thank for that.