How would this change your garage sale routine?

[billjustbill]

Times change...and after this being within 80 miles, it gets one to thinking....



Some additional info: Dogs can carry it without showing any symptoms.

Bill

 

[Beachkid23]

As far as the dogs part we're good. We have a cat so for once I'm happy about that! I don't know how much advice I have on any of this I'm pretty young still and I have four little kids. I would really enjoy growing old and seeing them grow older with me as well.

So I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow and we already have 5 months worth of food saved up for the six of us if this thing spreads I'm planning on closing down the hurricane shutters and staying in for a while!

I hope something like that doesn't happen though they keep saying it will be contained and dealt with they were able to handle it but we'll see!

I don't know if I would change my yard sale route for it. Although I would just be careful as to who I'm kissing!!

honestly though if you were to get it and live through it your hospital bill would be so huge you would never get out of it...

 

[GlenDronach]

Uh, unless you pretty much roll in an ebola patient's bodily fluids or keep dead bodies around, you'll be OK.

 

[jerseyben]

I refuse to let fear mongering stop me from living my life in a normal fashion.

 

[Paleo_joe]

The real danger is not Ebola. The real danger is when a critical mass of people don't go to work and things start to fall apart. If 20% of the employees in this country stayed home -- and I'm not talking about knowledge workers who work from a PC, but people who have to show up -- some businesses would have to shut down and more would then follow. Or imagine if every minimum wage worker decided they'd rather not risk their lives for $300 a week and stayed home. What grocery store or gas station could open?

 

[gino22]

The real danger is not Ebola. The real danger is when a critical mass of people don't go to work and things start to fall apart. If 20% of the employees in this country stayed home -- and I'm not talking about knowledge workers who work from a PC, but people who have to show up -- some businesses would have to shut down and more would then follow. Or imagine if every minimum wage worker decided they'd rather not risk their lives for $300 a week and stayed home. What grocery store or gas station could open?

Every minimum wage worker decided they'd rather not risk their lives for a pittance centuries ago -- and every minimum wage employer learned that there's plenty more where they came from...

 

[Paleo_joe]

Bringing the minimum wage workers into it wasn't really thought out on my part. What someone is paid would have little effect on whether they showed up for work or not. There are a ton of other factors at work.

People with lots of paid sick days and vacay days will be gone early in the game.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

You have 100,000 times better chance of dying from the flu, car accident or cancer.

 

[treasurekidd]

Ebola is a nasty little bug, but it won't keep me at home. Just be vigilant - avoid people with flu like symptoms and wash your hands a lot, and if your kids come down with something flu like, take it more seriously than you normally might. Other than that, life as normal.

 

[Diamondplate Dave]

I already warned my boss that if I contract ebola, I will not be in to work that day.
Seriously, I work at a college. Where people come from all over, including Africa, and then huddle in cinderblock incubation tanks *cough* dorm rooms *cough* partying and swapping body fluids and getting run down. Then they show up in my doorway Monday AM.
"My laptop won't start up."
I poke and prod the laptop. Sure enough, it doesn't boot. And they keyboard seems.......crunchy.
"did anything get spilled into the laptop?" (note: No=maybe, maybe=yes, yes=katie bar the door)
"um....yeah...my roomie projectile vomited into it."
The best one?
"um...my laptop is broken."
"OK, what's wrong?"
"um..it's kind of embarrassing, but I fell asleep with it in bed..."
PR0N ALERT! and a cracked LCD, of course...
" and when I woke up, I had wet the bed."
AHHH! But OK, he did tell me before I touched the laptop, kudos for honesty!
Garage sales are the least of my concerns.

DD