Will you keep working if Ebola comes to U.K

[Miss Knight]

Hi

Well stop working would be too much to do but in case you suspect something or a client has symptoms and it looks risky you shouldn't go for it. Not only because of Ebola of course but for any disease. When it comes to Ebola there is no "half measures" that will keep you safe. Using condom it will not avoid it as sweat and saliva will be a big risk factor as well.
But this is not a reason for you to stop working because it can happen anywhere with anyone. So don't give too much thinking about it 

xx

[Monroe]

If Ebola comes to the U.K I think I would just start Webcamming. 

[Cat_BBW]

Hi

Well stop working would be too much to do but in case you suspect something or a client has symptoms and it looks risky you shouldn't go for it. Not only because of Ebola of course but for any disease. When it comes to Ebola there is no "half measures" that will keep you safe. Using condom it will not avoid it as sweat and saliva will be a big risk factor as well.
But this is not a reason for you to stop working because it can happen anywhere with anyone. So don't give too much thinking about it 

xx

It wouldn't (or shouldn't) be THAT much to do to stop working, us self-employed should never be relying on our "next booking" anyway. We should all have a financial escape plan, or emergency plan, or back up plan, or even savings.

[meetingdiversity]

With Ebola shouldn't it make others very ill so clients would be bed bound. In my opinion it is only a matter of time before it gets here. Just like that swine flu. I will keep escorting, regardless. Then when it does get here vaccinations for Ebola come out. Because to terrified people will flock to the injection in fear and pannic. I won't be having it as injects the virus. Having a strong immune system helps.

When swine flu came it was pannic alert now Ebola. There is a pattern here. There was also isolation for the swine flu then came a vaccination. That guy had Ebola came here in England already. People wouldn't take a vaccine for nothing but if they are scared will more than likely.


The vaccine injects the virus. So many will get Ebola any way through the vaccine without knowing it. This is a matter of time.

[Kay]

MD - I don't understand what you're trying to say. There is no current vaccine against Ebola. If there was, it would use an inactivated virus or one of its antigens to induce an immune response.

[tigerlily]

Health care workers get it because patients with ebola projectile vomit, cough, bleed all over the place, and have diarrhoea. They also have seizures, which can make needle sticks a bigger risk.

You won't get it riding on a bus (unless you're sitting next to someone who coughs right in your face) but if you're in physical contact with them you are at higher risk.

Apparently one of the reasons it's spreading so fast is because West African funeral practice is to touch the dead bodies as you're burying them. Kind of freaky. Something tells me ebola wouldn't get as far in the UK as it can in Africa.

[Cat_BBW]

When swine flu came it was pannic alert now Ebola. There is a pattern here. There was also isolation for the swine flu then came a vaccination. That guy had Ebola came here in England already. People wouldn't take a vaccine for nothing but if they are scared will more than likely.

I had swine flu before the vaccination. I wasn't isolated, nor did I have to go to hospital. I just slept for almost 5 days, and then felt better. The helpline said I should take Tamiflu (the drugs that were supposed to reduce the illness' symptoms) but I had read that you needed to start taking it the minute you felt ill and you MIGHT reduce your symptoms by a day. So I didn't take it.

Also - I have no idea who I caught it from, and it wasn't anywhere near as virulent as the media/government suggested, as NOBODY who came in contact with me (and NOBODY else I knew at the time) contracted it, not even Mr Cat who was literally by my side the whole time. Yet - and I agree with you about the panic - hoards of people were stocking up on Tamiflu tablets and when the vaccination DID appear, they were queuing round the block for it.

Governments love scared populations as they can be easily manipulated.

[alice842]

What worries me most is the government's response to the outbreak. The ebola checks when people get off planes in Heathrow are optional, and surely they should be testing people before they get on a plane so they don't bring it into a country 

I don't think ebola will be a massive problem here, it's not airborne at the moment. They think the Spanish nurse who caught it must have touched her face before removing her protective gloves. Hopefully it'll die out soon. I'm just worried about when a nasty flu or airborne virus hits what with the government's response being so slow.

But anyway, I think I will carry on working and if it does come over here but ask clients if they're travelled recently or been in contact with someone who has ebola and if they have the slightest sign of a cold, turn them away. I might stop seeing new clients as well and just see regulars who I trust not to show up if they're ill.

[meetingdiversity]

On sky news today an estimate of it coming to the Uk in three months. All we can do is keep our immune system strong or give up escorting out of fear. I knew this would happen as it's only a matter of time before more problems. And the government cannot make the virus not come it has already when that guy got taken in ill. What I am trying to say worrying in fear doesn't help but action does.

[Grumpy Cow]

Ebola for me does not even register as a personal concern or threat.  I agree with the NH guidelines that suggest even if this disease would hit the UK it would be fairly easy to contain and not spread anywhere near as dramatically.  Ignorance and poor hygiene are the most dangerous vectors and those are not as rampant in this country, well with some exceptions     

[berri]

Currently have a cold/flu.  Explained that due to this I couldn't work this week to a prospective client.

He then jokingly replied "hope it's not ebola"

Seemed a weird response to me, would have much preferred a "hope you feel better soon"

[tvhappiness]

If Nigeria can curb Ebola, that is a good sign the West can too. For it to just be mainly in three countries over a few months, when there 54 countries in Africa, means they must be doing something  wrong. Anyways let hope thing remain contained and  eventually improve.

[meetingdiversity]

Some clients must fear the Ebola risk with prozzies seeing many man all the time from their view. I would never say that had a cold as don't need silly comments like that. I will just take time off. The vaccines are out now. It won't be too long before others get vaccinated. I think they will annonce the high risk groups on tele sooner or later to take it. Like they do with other vaccines.


Many getting infected are in those affected countries.


Ebola is a risk as to what is thought about it. I am not panicking. What is more concerning to me is the stis and hiv doing what need to keep myself safe from. Panicking is loosing focus control. Remaining calm thinking logically is my outlook.

[Fabulassie]

There is no vaccine for Ebola. There is a treatment that seems to have pretty good success, although I think it's still in experimental stages.

[berri]

Yeah I understood that they might have a vaccine ready to start testing in January.

And the treatment so far is a serum from the blood of survivors.