Things you don't want to see when coming into work in the morning. #1
So I'm coming into work this morning (I work at a hospital/university) and some security guard tells me "You can't go this way; you'll have to go around the parking lot to get in the front doors." so I'm like "OOOOOK" and I walk around. Meanwhile I'm looking at the "area I'm not allowed to walk in" and I see a bunch of guys in Biosafety Level 4 "space suits" ushering patients in and out of a newly [and quickly] assembled tent-tunnel (see E.T.) to the emergency room entrance. I've emailed our boss's boss to see if he knows anything, I'll update if I find anything. In the meanwhile, I hope today is not the day that I spill acid on myself or something in the lab.
Update: It's a drill. fweeew. ...State-wide drill to test emergency outbreak preparedness. Various patients are "decontaminated" and quarantine excersises are in effect for the day to test just how prepared the hopitals are for outbreaks.
9 Comments
NicoleBeeEeek! What's your money on?
Doc_MMy money's on drug-resistant Tuberculosis. That's common enough. God help us if it's something else.
NicoleBeeI was thinking TB as well, yes (like I'm an expert in common causes of hospital quarentines
).. What do they do when they find MSRA? I imagine nothing that dramatic..
Doc_MIt's a drill. Thank god.
NicoleBeePhew D: I live in the neighbourhood of a very large virology lab. I think I would probably have a heart attack if I happened to see them having a drill like this!
dystopianfuturetodayIt's just a drill folks... ah, nothing to see here.... there is absolutely no truth to the rumors of a zombie outbreak.
blankfistDon't you love it when someone gets the bright idea to hold a drill but refuses to let the general public know what's up? About four or five years ago they were doing some sort of anti-missile test off the coast of California, so up in the sky all you could see was trails of missile smoke. They finally told us what is was when the 11 o'clock news came on that night. Thanks.
thinker247So when it's real, you'll find out before the eleven o'clock news, because you'll be dead. That's always reassuring.
>> ^blankfist:
Don't you love it when someone gets the bright idea to hold a drill but refuses to let the general public know what's up? About four or five years ago they were doing some sort of anti-missile test off the coast of California, so up in the sky all you could see was trails of missile smoke. They finally told us what is was when the 11 o'clock news came on that night. Thanks.
MINKthe realer it is, the less i want to know.
Discuss...
Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.