But aerosolized, as discussed in that article, is different from airborne, isn't it?
Gosh this stuff is confusing and fascinating ....
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Posted 23 September 2014 - 02:18 PM
Totally off topic, but here's something for our favorite pilot, BLD .....
Tiny robot learns to fly a real plane
http://www.cnet.com/...y-a-real-plane/
No way in hell I'm ever getting on a plane flown by a robot ....(have enuf trouble getting on one flown by a woman....I'm a woman, BTW) ..... I want a real live thinking, feeling, reasoning human pilot ... preferably a handsome male, with that oh-so-attractive pilot attitude .... I think it's called "testosterone" ;-)
Although, there are a few female fighter pilots in the military who I'd let fly me anywhere..... Those Israeli gals are hot .... Teehee
You have many times. 90% of the time I am just punching numbers into the flight control computer. I set the autothrottle and and auto-brake. I chat on the radio. I'll let the FO take it down on final.
The real stuff I do is pre-flight checks, manage fuel, manage crew.
The real flying happens in the simulator. That's where the preperation for things going tits up happens. Unlike doctors we don't practice on people.
Posted 23 September 2014 - 02:31 PM
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Do you know how you can tell when your date with a pilot is half-over?
The pilot says, "Well, enough about me-- now let's talk about airplanes!"
lol
It's sadly true for many. Luckily I got this out of my system in the airforce. When you fly a supersonic jet capabale of destroying a small town you don't need to go on dates. Just walk off base and smile. It's quite empty. I am quite happy I married early and have two great kids.
When I moved to commercial I had it explicitly written in to my contract that I don't stay in crew hotels. Fleet CPT epaulettes and a 'heavy' crew of starry eyed girls ends in broken marriages . I take my uniform off in the airport. ~I prefer people to see the person not the uniform.
Posted 23 September 2014 - 03:16 PM
yipeeeeee BLG....It's obvious you certainly know how to leave your job at work. Once you get out of your uniform you leave that life behind and continue on home to the life and person you are. It's a difficult thing to do, although it's the only way to stay balanced and in control of one's self....I admire this qualify in you and happy you are able to share this with us.. Thank you.It's sadly true for many. Luckily I got this out of my system in the airforce. When you fly a supersonic jet capabale of destroying a small town you don't need to go on dates. Just walk off base and smile. It's quite empty. I am quite happy I married early and have two great kids.
When I moved to commercial I had it explicitly written in to my contract that I don't stay in crew hotels. Fleet CPT epaulettes and a 'heavy' crew of starry eyed girls ends in broken marriages . I take my uniform off in the airport. ~I prefer people to see the person not the uniform.
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Emory U generated "up to 40 bags a day" of ebola medical waste materials ... for just 2 patients.....
U.S. hospitals unprepared to handle Ebola waste
Reuters, 9/24/2014 (re-posted on Yahoo News)
http://news.yahoo.co...65--sector.html
FTA: Waste management companies are refusing to haul away the soiled sheets and virus-spattered protective gear associated with treating the disease, citing federal guidelines that require Ebola-related waste to be handled in special packaging by people with hazardous materials training, infectious disease and biosafety experts told Reuters.
Many U.S. hospitals are unaware of the regulatory snafu, which experts say could threaten their ability to treat any person who develops Ebola in the U.S. after coming from an infected region. It can take as long as 21 days to develop Ebola symptoms after exposure.
The issue created problems for Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the first institution to care for Ebola patients here. As Emory was treating two U.S. missionaries who were evacuated from West Africa in August, their waste hauler . . . initially refused to handle it. . .
Ebola symptoms can include copious amounts of vomiting and diarrhoea, and nurses and doctors at Emory donned full hazmat suits to protect themselves. Bags of waste quickly began to pile up.
"At its peak, we were up to 40 bags a day of medical waste, which took a huge tax on our waste management system," Emory's Dr. Aneesh Mehta told colleagues at a medical meeting earlier this month.
Emory sent staff to Home Depot to buy as many 32-gallon rubber waste containers with lids that they could get their hands on. Emory kept the waste in a special containment area for six days until its Atlanta neighbor, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helped broker an agreement with [their waste handler].
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Posted 26 September 2014 - 12:49 PM
Seriously? Why in the world would this professor say such a thing? Ebola has been around since the 1970's....OMG this is horrible if it is true, and horrible if he made it up.....oy ...A professor in U.S. is telling Liberians that the Defense Department ‘manufactured’ EbolaNYT, 9/26/2014an-american-professor-is-telling-liberians-that-the-u-s-manufactured-ebola-outbreak
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Well, TFL, definitely not all of it! I haven't had time to fact-check each and every point ... but I will ... and hopefully Carleeta can help us out with all her knowledge ... what I would say at this point is that there are bits and pieces of fact in there ... mixed with huge bunches of conspiracy theory and superstition ... this u of Delaware prof who wrote the original article/letter to the editor is himself Liberian ... and allegedly a highly education scientist ... if you read the article, he references one or two books about ebola that he's read ... I'm going to check for them on Amazon.com and see if they're legit...
One of the problems with trying to put a stop to this epidemic in Africa is the high level of superstition and rumor, the low level of education and intelligence of the general population, and the wide-spread distrust of the US and the Western countries as a whole ... villagers are attacking and killing med relief workers, refusing to believe that their friends/relatives died of the disease, believing that those who died of it have "resurrected", escaping from treatment centers, etc etc ...
And, heck, look at my two Liberian neighbors in my building ... both bringing their relatives here ... also learned yesterday that the fellow who drives my apartment building's van (it takes residents to a nearby university and shopping areas as a courtesy) is flying to Nigeria this week ... to visit his mother ... and, plans to stop in Sierra Leone to visit other family ...in both places, he's going to help family members make arrangements to travel to the US on tourist visas to get out of Africa, and be able to stay here ... he's flying from here to London, then to Nigeria, then to Sierra Leone, and his route home is from Sierra Leone to London, back to here ... I asked him about his concerns re. ebola, and he said "it's not contagious" ... HUH???
He also lives in my building.
Posted 28 September 2014 - 07:58 PM
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