So I am at work …..I hear this terrible crying from outside. Sounds like a kitten in distress.

I go outside. Sure enough there is a 4-8 week old kitten in the bushes. Frightened and when it sees me, it hisses and backs up into the corner.

Hmmm. Wonder where it came from???
No houses around..Maybe momma cat stashed it in the bushes. I decide to leave it for a while and see what happens.

2 hours later, kitty is still there and it is beginning to rain.

Hell….Dammit.

Ok, I reach into the bushes and grab kitty by the scruff of the neck.

Turns out it isn’t helpless and that it is faster than a striking snake…..It turns its little head and bites my thumb…. and again…. and again.
I almost dropped the ungrateful little thing.
But instead, I carried it inside and put it in the office bathroom. I ended up with11 bites. One in the meat of my thumb. I let all the punctures bleed for a few minutes until they begin to clot, then pour 70% isopropyl on them to clean and disinfect as best I can….I mean, I thought I might get a scratch, but not bites….certainly not 11. (yeah, I got my ass kicked by a 1 lb kitten…..)

“Rabies?” said I to myself? “Feral kitten…could be rabies.” Now the only test I know of for rabies is hard on the animal, as it requires samples of brain tissue….it is a destructive test, if you get my drift. Then again, I don’t want rabies. My understanding is that it is a bad way to go, although I hear the hallucinations are great just before you kick off….

So I call the local county animal control office. No help. Not even interested. Couldn’t care less and couldn’t have any less knowledge as to procedure…They will have someone call me back. Maybe….. Might even be today….Suggest I call Public Health Department.  I give them my name and number and hope that I will get a call back. I mean, you couldn’t find a less caring more incompetent bunch if you dragged people of the street….Patronage employment in Lake County Indiana has destroyed every government office. One might have thought that the ANIMAL CONTROL folks might have some idea as to what to do for an animal…..but no…  In the meantime, since I have a good 20 year relationship with my vet (I have 5.35 cats currently) I call them:

“Yeah, likely in a kitten you don’t have anything to worry about. But best to have it tested…” is the opinion….. I enquired about the method of testing and yes, it is hard on the cat. The alternative is 10 days of quarantine and an examination. Which runs about $260. How much is the brain type rabies test? I ask… $215.

In the meantime the County Board of Health calls me and wants to know what I am going to do…..Have to fill out a report…. HAVE to have the animal tested or owner verified. (I was tempted to tell them that I lost the cat and it ran away….). This is the help I got from the Animal Control folks…they called the Board of Health…Procedure, you know. The Health people’s only concern is that I could have rabies (and who suggested I look out for infection and maybe get a Tetanus shot….)

So, I went home, got a cat carrier (and leather welding gloves!), crated the kitty (who was not happy about the whole thing but couldn’t get through the gloves) and took the little spiteful feral kitten to the vet for quarantine. hey, what’s an extra fifty or so? The test now HAS to be done, as the County is now informed (I, foolishly, woke the beast). The County Health folks apparently did a reverse lookup and knew my home address from my cell phone number and will fine me if I don’t fill out a report. Not like they are helping with the cat either….Or the test…… Somehow I ended up being responsible for the frikkin test.  No owner, so I am the responsible party…and the fine is “not less than $250…I should have told ’em I lost the thing and taken my chances with rabies….

So…in 10 days we know if I have rabies…and now I gotta find a home for this little kitten (which is worth $260….)

Anybody need a cat? A feisty one?

And so far at a decent price….

Coveralls.

While they last and all that.

Remember, the whole thing about prepping is to PREP. Note the the root of the word…PRE, meaning BEFORE.

Just sayin’

If this whole Ebola in Dallas thing didn’t have some SERIOUS possible consequences it would be laughable.

The inept emergency room folks on the 26th

The inept handling of the situation by both Texas/Dallas Public health and the CDC. (what, exactly, are they doing with all the money we spend in them, if they cannot react well to a single instance of a communicable disease?)

The fact that only today, 5 days later, are they doing any sort of disinfecting of the areas where Mr. Duncan vomited in the public spaces outside of the apartment where he was visiting….

This whole thing reads like an implausible scenario of a 1970’s disaster.horror flick.

Except it isn’t one. It is real….and there are people in charge who are inept enough to let things happen like this..,. I mean, I realize they are government workers, but still, shouldn’t we expect them to have some idea what to do….? Isn’t thre someone in charge who knows something?

Scary…and angering that the folks who should have known better and have known what to do…..didn’t. They couldn’t even send someone out to the apartment sidewalks with some bleach water and a Hudson sprayer to disinfect….they let a work crew PRESSURE WASH the sidewalk….possibly aerosoliszing the infectious residue…

Like a bad book….First there was one…then 6, then 25, then…

The above illustrates the ineptness of the folks in Dallas.  Note: It isn’t a steam cleaner, but a pressure washer. 

Happy Birthday Jimmeh!

I never thouht that the DNC could find anyone incompetent enough to make YOU look good, but they did.

You should read this.

If true, then Duncan KNEW he was exposed to Ebola….and he willfully exposed others.

If there is a nightmare scenario for the spread of a disease, this is it. Read the link. It is scary that he KNEW he had been exposed and selfishly decided to come here….exposing others to a DEADLY disease in his travels

His actions are, IMO, criminal.

If others die from this, here is the US or from exposure to him in any of the planes or airports, he should be tried for murder.

The scary part is that if he could do what he did, then others may as well.

I would like to see travellers from Africa in general quarantined until the outbreak is contained.

to wok as an emergency room doctor in Hawaii…

unlike Dallas….

That if Kalifornia were to get rid of all the illegal immigrants that it provides sanctuary for, then they’d likely not have to enact water restrictions due to the 4 year drought.

How many illegals? Seriously. Do you think that those folks will pay any attention to the water restrictions? Obey the laws?

But simply getting rid of all those illegals would reduce the water usage by millions of gallons a day.

As anything you’ll watch today

HERE.

Be aware that it is only sorta SFW.

About 25 people had somewhat close contact with the Dude in Dallas who brought Ebola here. One person is in “close monitor” as are the three paramedics who transported Patient Zero. 

So. Far.

Apparently he had some kind of contact with about 20 others, including 5 or so school age kids.

Plus, of course, the folks on the airplane and in the airport.

Nuttin’ to see here folks….move along. Nothing to worry about.

If you are of a mind to prepare, buy safety glasses, alcohol and bleach and gloves. Trash bags too, so you can improvise protective gear for caregivers.

Facemasks.

Soap.

plus, of course, food and water and such. And your adult beverage of choice….

Doubt if it spreads too far, but since no one is monitoring the people who enter this country (legally or not….) then it can happen again.

And the Doctors in Dallas apparently weren’t too bright……Dude informed the emergency room folks on his FIRST visit that he HAD BEEN TO LIBERIA and was “sent home with antibiotics”…

Scary, isn’t it? Medical professionals dropped the ball that badly: “On September 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after
becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two
days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring
an ambulance ride to the hospital.”

And the ambulance “has been disinfected ” and is back in service. Howdja like to find out you’d been transported in that carriage?

We shall see how things progress. On the one hand, they claim that if you aren’t showing symptoms, you aren’t infectious…on the other had, everyone who was in contact with Patient Zero is supposed to stay home and out of contact with others for 21 days….Hmmm….why, if they aren’t infectious until symptomatic?

“There is nothing to fear about Ebola in the United States”.

Right.

How many people were exposed to him on his route from LIBERIA TO TEXAS?

A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the deadly Ebola virus

How many on the planes, how many on the public transportation he may ahve used…How many did he pass in the street…..Waiting outside of the emergency room?

Now apparently Ebola isn’t that easy to get. Maybe. But it is not something to ignore. A man came into the United States with it. From literally the other side of the world. Carried a deadly disease. Nothing stopped him from re-entering the country.

Think about the implications there. He flew from a country where the disease is rampant and yet there were no barriers to his entry into this country.

Scary.

Got facemasks and gloves? Hand sanitizer?

If not, get ’em soon before the rush. 

‘Cause if there is a second case found, there won’t be any available.