Facebook and Google, multi-billion dollar corporations that mine your private data for money, are apparently very concerned about the Ebola virus, because they are "socially active" companies. So they are asking—nay, guilting—their users for money to "help" "stop" and "fight" Ebola.
Amber Vinson, the second Texas nurse to contract Ebola last month, is getting better but reportedly lost her engagement ring to the virus.
Susan Sherman quit her job at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School in Louisville, Ken. this week after the school—fearing Ebola—demanded she take "precautionary leave" and place herself into 21-day quarantine following her mission trip to Kenya. There apparently was "strong parent concerns" that Sherman might have been exposed to Ebola, even though Kenya is on the opposite end of the continent from where the virus has been spreading.
Add "making your son think he's dying" to the list of things people will do for the Vine. These parents put on protective masks, took their kid's temperature, and told him he had Ebola. Then they put his tears of fear and shock as he confronted his own mortality on the internet. He wasn't viral, obviously, but now the video is.
Happy National Tim Cook Coming Out Day! How have you been celebrating? I have been reading the angry responses from homophobic assholes, like this prick and this one. In times like these, it feels prudent to note that if you are a man who has not sucked dick, you are no authority on what it feels like to have a guy's gayness shoved in your face/down your throat. So shut it, amateurs.
A nurse who was forced into a mandatory quarantine in New Jersey by Bruce Springsteen fan Chris Christie is now back in Maine, but she's not staying inside.
In a press conference yesterday, moist ham and governor of New Jersey Chris Christie waved aside concerns about the treatment of a nurse, Kaci Hicox, who his government involuntarily quarantined despite her not having Ebola, by saying that she had "access to the internet, and takeout food from the best restaurants in Newark." But did she really?
Chris Christie, an antagonistic noisemaker who happens to be in charge of governing the state of New Jersey, was in Rhode Island on Tuesday, campaigning for the Republican candidate for governor there. Reporters asked him what he thought about potentially getting sued by Kaci Hickox, a nurse Christie forced into mandatory quarantine this week under his Ebola policy.
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who arrived at Newark International Airport from Sierra Leone on Friday only to be placed under mandatory 21-day quarantine, has penned a story that describes her arrival, the poor management by airport staff, and the Ebola panic that ensued after Governor Christie instituted the new mandatory quarantine policy for those who have come into contact with Ebola patients.
So far, because there are only three of them, it's easy to feel reassured that those potentially and actually infected with Ebola in New York are in safe quarantine. Bellevue insists it had a biohazard protocol all ready and waiting; there is nothing to worry about.
As Ebola panic spreads in New York City, here's some good news: The two Dallas nurses who contracted the virus earlier this month are now free of the deadly disease. This morning, health officials in Maryland announced that Nina Pham, the first nurse diagnosed, has tested negative for Ebola. The announcement comes less than two days after the family of Amber Vinson—who first tested positive for the virus last week—said she had been declared virus-free.
At least three people who came into contact with Craig Spencer—the doctor who tested positive for Ebola Thursday night after returning from Guinea—have been placed into isolation. The New York City health department said in a statement yesterday that disease detectives are currently working to retrace Spencer's every step in the days leading up to his diagnosis.
