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actually, yes, I am too, but I am not a microbiologist and have never claimed to be one. a-MEN.

Ok...for the record I agree with sassanellat that an ICU nurse working with a level 4 virus really shouldn't have been on a public flight when she had a fever, even one below the cutoff, within the window for ebola after dealing with an ebola patient. That does show a lack of good judgement...

It's gonna be a "fun" flu season in a few weeks.....:roll:

I'm laughing! Here we are all getting misty-eyed and sentimental about this lovely well-aged bar of soap, and suddenly there's the screech of a needle coming off a record (she said, aging herself), and you announce the soap is too nasty to be used on human flesh! :D

"extra margin of safety" means there are measures in place that exceed the likely risk, so that containment is more assured. It does NOT mean everyone under observation is likely to have been exposed or to be at risk..it means they drew a large circle around a small point of small risk. I...

because the scientists here recognize the difference between a vanishingly low risk with an associated high level of safety margin, and a fear-based amplification of the risk. Would I be pleased that she had violated protocol? No. Would I be afraid that I had contracted ebola? probably, for...

I'm a biologist, and sassanellat is a microbiologist (please correct me if you identify otherwise, sassanellat). I don't hear doublespeak from us vs cdc, which is that the risk is very low with asymptomatic patients, that the virus is difficult to contract, the virus doesn't survive being...

don't forget you may want to double fold the pocket to stop the edge fraying, so you'll need to think a little about how to finish the bags to the size you want....don't cut ALL your fabric until you know you've got it measured properly! :) You COULD also just hem the top edges (most...

HOWEVER...from that same story, and in line with everything sassanellat has been saying "Frieden said. "The level of risk around her would be extremely low, but because of the extra margin of safety, we will be contacting [all those who were on the flight].""

Thanks sassanellat. That all lines up with what I knew and have learned. Avoiding the disproportionate fear and managing to keep calm and rational are SO critically important to handling any sort of crisis - doubly so when the misinformation and speculation are huge. Part of it comes from...

Here's how I'd do it, for several bags: If you have a rotary cutter, I would cut a strip of fabric twice the finished depth, plus the fold-over bit for the drawstring. I would fold it longwise, and mark it at intervals equal to the finished width of the bag plus your seam allowance, and stitch...

It occurs to me that I'm not sure about muslin for uncured soap, and I think your first batch was pretty recent (yes...looked back - this past Monday (I thought your user name was familiar! - you're not selling that first batch, of course....?)..I don't know how long a batch would need to cure...

Do you or someone you know sew? They are very simple to make from scratch and muslin is inexpensive in fabric stores.

Oh that tile/mosaic idea is super cool too! I wouldn't have thought of that because my brain automatically thinks "confetti soap", but it's a really lovely variation.

Funny! A third degree acquaintance is exactly this in another field - you just can't look away, but it's so darned annoying to watch...and you don't wish harm on another human, but you can't stop anticipating the crash. AND you know that trying to change the course of the outcome will do...

To me, this seems to make a boycott unnecessary, other than for personal reasons, which are valid in their own right.

I'm _almost_ curious enough now to look her up, but I don't tolerate fools well, and it starts to sound like she's creeping into that category! My head is quoting the Berenstein Bears now "This is lesson number two. This is what you should NOT do" lol!!

Right about where we start to talk about viruses "learning" you lose me. Studies show a lot of things, but I like to have a look at them to see if they show salient, relevant, reliable things - and so far I have no particular fear of ebola comin' to get me via an African product shipped into...

LOL no worries. I probably am, since a few wasps in the house wouldn't get me to spray. That many crickets would be annoying though! I don't really mind spiders enough to spray either - they're generally beneficial or at least harmless to humans. Good thing we aren't room-mates! ;)

Ah, could be I assumed since you brought it up in the thread about raw shea butter and its possible ebola risk, that you meant the 'no ill effects" to refer to ebola. (Not that it would be a risk, anyhow, and I'm still not clear from this post that you weren't thinking there might have been...