No you are not.

He did not demonstrate poor judgment. He was monitoring his temperature, and called officials the second he realized he had a (very low) temperature, which was his first symptom.

And don't forget they fucking invented LEGO!

The Dallas health workers were not following appropriate protocols with Duncan for a minimum of several days after he was admitted, and they had direct and extensive contact with his bodily fluids — vomit, feces, and blood. Health workers in Africa can contract it if their suit has a breach, which happens. The key is…

We can only dream....

This is excellent, but I think it's important for people to understand that sweat and saliva, which are the two things people most fear coming into casual contact with, are very very poor methods of transmission for Ebola.

"rode the subway directly to your house, where he stole your sports bras and went for a vigorous jog right before you came home and licked his sweaty bra and he was exhibiting symptoms at the time..." you STILL wouldn't get Ebola, because whole virus has never been detected in sweat.

Yeah, the story needs an update, I think. The 103 WAS being reported at the time this was posted, but it's since been corrected. According to the updated reports his only symptom prior to Thursday morning was "sluggishness" and he didn't suspect he was ill as opposed to just tired because he did not have a "suit…

His fever was only 100.3, not 103. Very low, and he still called it in immediately. It was misreported originally due to a "transcription error" according to the NYT and the Health Department.

I recently breastfed my son on an airplane! And in an aisle seat no less. No one said a word. Probably because the alternative was listening to him scream. :)

Marrying your first cousin - legal in 19 states and DC, legal with conditions in 6 others. I can't post images from my work browser but here's a link.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

I think many women either don't think about, or are not realistic about, the costs of taking several years off from a career to stay home with kids (and with multiple children it can be quite a few years). They mistakenly believe it will be easy to get back into the workforce after years away, or disregard the…

I'm a newbie to this concept (and an Old) but it seems to me that Jane Austen would have been an expert thrower of shade.

Sweat is a very poor carrier of Ebola virus, as is saliva. While the virus has been detected in both, there are no actual documented cases of tranmission based only on contact with sweat or saliva. Basically, there is not enough virus present in either to transit the disease until the late stages when the virus…

There are actually plenty of good reasons to keep working even if childcare initially (daycare gets less expensive as the child gets older) eats up nearly your whole paycheck. Some women enjoy working and (like me) know they are better parents when they work outside the home. Others may not want to take a…

This is completely true, but many jobs in fashion require you to dress in these clothes. Thus, someone who is interested in (and has a talent for) working in the industry is essentially barred from entry to the field unless they are independently wealthy. Which is frankly a shame.

In the mid-90's, fresh out of college, I interviewed for an entry-level job at a large fancy fashion magazine conglomerate. I wore a horrible maroon jacket with shoulderpads, a black pencil skirt, and, though I don't recally exactly, probably "skin-colored" hose. The interviewer lady gently informed me that "most…

One of the nurses was interviewed on NPR and said that when they initially brought him into the ER, the family stated that he had recently come from an affected area in Africa and that they suspected Ebola. Not to say the CDC did not also drop the ball here but there is certaily evidence suggesting that the hospital…

I read somewhere (the NY Times maybe?) a great quote from an infectious disease specialist, who said they have a saying at his facility: "If it's wet, and you didn't make it, don't touch it."