i have been thinking about all of this, i try to break things down real simple in my mind. i see 2 situations potentially, in a time frame where perhaps the medical care system fails and we are basically on our own. it seems most of us are considering and preparing for a self quarantine if ebola blows. that is what i am planning on. but my grown kids dont live near us and if i call them telling them we are locking down--well, i am doubting any of them will come right away. unless something scares them to get out of the city and makes them want to leave-----and im pondering the potentials.
1--say youve gone into lockdown to prevent exposure and hope to ride it out for a few months. ok, but after several days someone is feeling ill, coughing, sneezing, nauseated, getting a fever. out of caution you isolate that person in a room with hopefully a bathroom. you try to set it up and have one caregiver to feed and tend to the sick person and keep them isolated for 21 days. you hope it isnt ebola, that its just something else, but you cant know. the early symptoms look like the flu so you cant really know. you have to act as tho it IS. then you have to wonder if it IS who else have they possibly spread it to in your home.
all you can do is your very best and pray. sure it will be a 24/7. yes one has to study and learn proper suit up and decontamination steps, yes the caregiver should also be isolated from the rest of the home. i am still looking for these proper steps just to have them--if anyone has a link please share.
as frightening as it is, i will do my best to take care of a sick person with rehydrating fluids, lipsomal vit c, tylenol, activated charcoal for the nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, as i will do my best to try not to get it. dying of ebola is horrendous, but you know, we all die of something. its not how long we live but what we do with our lives. some of us are gonna die of this or a flu or a heart attack or get hit by a bus.....we are all gonna die somewhere, somehow. there have been pandemics, catastrophes, waves of them before in mankinds history with no modern medical services, medicines or expertise. some still survived or we would not be here---we are the descendants of the survivors of plagues and flu and what all. i kinda feel like aintfunny on this.
i cant turn away my family to save my own hide. im going to stand before God one day and give account of my actions, we all will.
the second scenario that bothers me is you have all locked down to ride it out and a week later here comes the son with his family that left too late to join you. he didnt really think it would be necessary and stayed too long in the city. you dont know if he or someone in his family has been exposed.
they have no where else to go, they are scared. they cant go home, its not safe there. turn them away? i dont think so.
id put them in a separate area, like the basement for 21 days. before they entered id put some blankets and towels and water bottles, portapotty thing and stuff down there, tell them they had to strip off their clothes and shoes to decontaminate with bleach spray, bag up their clothes and leave outside and put clean ones on before entering. they wont like it but thats what im gonna do, its what i have to do. they will have shelter, food but they cant come up until after 21 days have passed and no one is sick.
id leave food for them at the basement door, have them bag up their garbage. id do my best to provide for them for 21 days until they prove they are not infected. at this time id pump them with colloidal silver, lipsomal vit c. if someone does develop symptoms, well, then it gets hinky. for then they are all exposed.
then there is the matter of if son and family arrives and gets settled in the basement for their 21 days, what if #2 arrives with his family after that? where to put them for their 21 days, in the garage? this takes planning--ALL of this takes planning to deal with its different potential situations.
my mind sort of boggles at all this.
but while my mind is doing flips over how to handle all this, i know i have to do my best. and as bluelady says If I don't try it's a guaranteed fail, and I don't give up that easily.
yes, this is a nasty, horrific, terrifying disease but some survive with little to no modern medical care. heck the only care given in africa is rehyrdating fluids and tylenol and some gruel. there is no magic bullet, no cure---and if a cure did pop up, well id be kinda suspicious of it.
if we assume we will fail then we wont try. if we dont try we automatically fail.
