My former husband is visiting from Arizona and we've only been to Dallas to see the baby and *scrunches face* to have family photos made at a J.C. Penny's dept. store. I'd forgotten about the photo shoot and being around people in Dallas. It wasn't for very long.
Baby was born, thank God, in Plano which is north of Dallas.
Don't know whether it would be good for the hubby to leave to go back now before people start looking leerily at anyone coming out of this area or to stay to see how this plays out.
One of the teachers from the local students school in our building asked me if I knew if any of the students in the 'newcomer to the U.S.' school were from Liberia. Honestly, I don't know. We do have kids from Africa but where in Africa we don't know. Teacher told me she had a student who was white faced and sick who when asked said he'd vomited twice already. She sent him to the nurse on campus, who sent him back because he didn't have a fever. Teacher said 'we'll take care of that', and gave him a pass to the office to call his parents to come pick him up. Kid went home but that doesn't inspire confidence in the health care provider and she may be operating under guidelines set up by the district's health dept.
How long does it take to get to your daughters? Distance doesn't tell me much because roads/traffic systems are very different.
I didn't think of the risk to your school - oh my *HUGS* - not liking the nurses lack of reaction or the unsurity this disease is a scary thing. Would be happier if you were far far away from the hint of a threat.
Takes about an hour to get there. The roads are good, 3 lanes usually and sometimes 4 or 5, but traffic can be 'interesting' depending if you're trying to get where you want during the 'rush hours' when everyone is trying to get to jobs or stores or home.
Most of our students are hispanic but we're getting more from the Middle East, quite a few from Africa, and then there's Asia. I think most have been vetted through the system and there's a wait before they make it to us. They've had to get their immunizations before they're allowed in the school. There's more to worry about those who were around the initial U.S. Ebola victim. There's not been much said about his family where he was staying. No news is hopefully good news.
The school districts around here are starting to disinfect desks and tables just in case. Probably a good thing anyway since there's another childrens' upper respiratory disease that seems like the sniffles and kills or paralyses over night, Enterovirus.
Interesting times. Liberia's capitol city is supposed to be corpses lying in the streets.
The news is saying now that she was running a low fever of 99.something and called the CDC more than once to see if she should make the trip to Ohio where she was doing planning for her wedding.
Because the fever was lower than 104 the chart the CDC was looking at said she was good to go.
This has been a great big mess of non-preparedness.
Scary. A guy was on TV last week saying that we had nothing to worry about. We are a first world nation with great hospitals, etc. And I believed him... until this week happened.
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Date: 2014-10-15 06:02 pm (UTC)That is not good to read.
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Date: 2014-10-16 12:03 am (UTC)Baby was born, thank God, in Plano which is north of Dallas.
Don't know whether it would be good for the hubby to leave to go back now before people start looking leerily at anyone coming out of this area or to stay to see how this plays out.
One of the teachers from the local students school in our building asked me if I knew if any of the students in the 'newcomer to the U.S.' school were from Liberia. Honestly, I don't know. We do have kids from Africa but where in Africa we don't know.
Teacher told me she had a student who was white faced and sick who when asked said he'd vomited twice already. She sent him to the nurse on campus, who sent him back because he didn't have a fever. Teacher said 'we'll take care of that', and gave him a pass to the office to call his parents to come pick him up. Kid went home but that doesn't inspire confidence in the health care provider and she may be operating under guidelines set up by the district's health dept.
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Date: 2014-10-16 11:55 pm (UTC)Distance doesn't tell me much because roads/traffic systems are very different.
I didn't think of the risk to your school - oh my *HUGS* - not liking the nurses lack of reaction or the unsurity this disease is a scary thing.
Would be happier if you were far far away from the hint of a threat.
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Date: 2014-10-17 02:00 am (UTC)Most of our students are hispanic but we're getting more from the Middle East, quite a few from Africa, and then there's Asia. I think most have been vetted through the system and there's a wait before they make it to us. They've had to get their immunizations before they're allowed in the school.
There's more to worry about those who were around the initial U.S. Ebola victim. There's not been much said about his family where he was staying. No news is hopefully good news.
The school districts around here are starting to disinfect desks and tables just in case. Probably a good thing anyway since there's another childrens' upper respiratory disease that seems like the sniffles and kills or paralyses over night, Enterovirus.
Interesting times. Liberia's capitol city is supposed to be corpses lying in the streets.
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Date: 2014-10-15 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 11:51 pm (UTC)Because the fever was lower than 104 the chart the CDC was looking at said she was good to go.
This has been a great big mess of non-preparedness.
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Date: 2014-10-16 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-16 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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