You cannot get it on a train

[kpete]

You cannot get it on a train
You cannot get it in the rain
You cannot get it from a ball
You cannot hardly get it at all.

https://twitter.com/Panger2014/status/525470397370990592

[KMOD]

1. Ha, that's great

here's mine.

You cannot catch it on a plane
You cannot catch it on a train
You cannot catch this contagion
You cannot catch it, said Tom Frieden

[kpete]

2. thanks for that

[KMOD]

3. :) n/t

[Jim Lane]

4. You also can't get it online/ Just read DU and you'll be fine. (n/t)

[KMOD]

5. because this is fun, here's more

You cannot catch it when you bowl
Oh, yes I will, said the troll
You see the bridal shop has closed
and now I'll get it up my nose

It doesn't work that way, said DU
this isn't just a virus, or the flu
You need to handle blood, or poo,
or vomit, for it to get to you

But what if I was on a bus,
and an Ebola person sneezed on us
Well then I'd certainly would die
I'm scared to death, I think they lie

Please relax, and breathe and learn
You will not wind up in an urn
If we all practice safe protocol
Ebolo won't hurt you al all

[kestrel91316]

6. Well, that's completely false. You can get it anywhere

you manage to have contact with bodily fluids of a person ILL with Ebola.

That might be as little as some phlegm hawked by a rude person suffering from it who hasn't bothered to go to the hospital yet. But the likelihood of that is pretty low.

You're certainly not going to catch it on a train merely because that doctor was on the train. He was only marginally infectious when he went to the hospital, and he's probably got way to much class to spit on the train, let alone urinate or defecate on it, and by all accounts he wasn't vomiting at the time.

But go right ahead with perpetuating misinformation and making a joke of what needs to be a serious discussion of risks and non-risks. If it manages to get into the homeless or druggie population, all bets are off.

YOU, kpete??? REALLY???

[MontyPow]

8. There are certainly jokes here on DU.

[KMOD]

12. awww crap

I apologize for making light of a very serious issue.

My mistake in thinking some levity was needed.

Kestrel, you are a wonderful poster at DU.

I think I'll go back to lurking.

[pnwmom]

7. You can if someone throws up, up, up on you. n/t

[MontyPow]

10. And you injest it. Always remember to injest it.

Cause it happens all time.
That's as far as I'm gonna take this rhyme.

[pnwmom]

11. All it would take is a missed drop on a hand that touches a mucous membrane.

This kind of viral exposure happens all the time.

[MontyPow]

13. It boggles the mind that nobody has been infected

Whose job was not to handle the bodily fluids of the infected.

It's almost as if it was really hard to catch after all.

[uppityperson]

9. well...

You can get it if they barf
or there's feces on a scarf
rub it in your eyes and then
you can get it through semen

briefly though that last may be
condoms applied so perfectly
keep you safe and tidy too
have your fun and done with you