Posted on 10/09/2014 1:39:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The CareNow clinic in Frisco where Dallas County Sheriff’s deputy Michael Monnig was treated for possible Ebola-like symptoms is closed. This after it reopened only hours after Monnig was transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. The clinic will undergo a deep cleaning and remain closed until Friday.
Frisco’s fire chief Mark Piland said Monnig is being treated “out of an abundance of caution” and the response was appropriate based on Monnig’s symptoms and his indirect contact with the Ebola victim...
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Watch the border!!!
Anyone who thinks one person does not make a difference has not thought about this Ebola situation. Just a few people with Ebola could cripple healthcare for everyone. I am wondering whether healthcare providers and Hazmat professionals and others will hang in there if this thing becomes really threatening in the US. Ebola has the potential of bringing everything to a halt. We just do not trust the powers that be to protect us.
Imagine a dozen or so fanning out from the border.
Civilization is fragile even in the healthiest of cultures. But the erosion of our culture has been extensive.
Imagine the media coverage and government response if 1000 Americans got Ebola. 50x that number die from Influenza or Pneumococcal Disease every year, but this perspective will be lost. Whatever veneer of public trust remains will fall away.
And we're nowhere close to being the healthiest of cultures anymore.
Don’t worry, I have thought about this one. In fact, given the intense resources just to treat someone for ebola, most hospitals couldn’t afford to set up this special section of isolation for more than a few. Get more than a few infected, and the hospitals will not have adequate services. Given how much work has been done to cripple the police capacity to do the right thing while ignoring corrupt, brutal, behavior, in the name of political correctness, there’s a decreased likelihood that there will be no effective enforcement to contain the disease. People will be protected classes, and it will spread through the slums and the homeless people like wildfire.
What’s really messed up is that this sounds like the plot of the cheesy movie, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”, where an overwhelming majority of all humans die from an ape virus, and the apes get super smart, then take over the world.
As I am going to say, America doesn’t have that many strict isolation Wards in a given hospital. It won’t take too many cases of ebola to overload the isolation units. If ebola makes it into the slums or the homeless people, you will see it spread like a brush fire. If it gets far enough before containment, a huge fraction of the entire U.S. population will die in not so much time.
Not that it won’t wipe out the homeless an underclass, but I think it will be an indiscriminate killer. Just forget about any public transportation or public areas. Who will risk traveling to work on a bus or subway.
Not to mention the economic impact; let’s face it, there is a lot of business than can’t be conducted over the web; it requires face-to-face interaction (in most cases). Once the outbreak begins to take hold, there will be a lot of us who hunker down at home; we won’t be going out for quite a while and we’ll defend our property to the death. Multiply that by millions of Americans and the economy quickly crashes and burns.
Worth remembering that your typical grocery store super center only has about a four day supply of food on hand. If warehouse personnel and truckers aren’t showing up for work, those shelves will be bare in no time at all. You’ll see massive food riots within 10 days and a complete breakdown of “civil” society in short order.
We’re a lot closer to the edge than many people realize.
It will ultimately hit all over the place, but saliva contact is common in the slums. And it will likely start there before it explodes to the people that take care there such as clergy or humanitarian aid, see where I am going with this?
WND EXCLUSIVE
Ebola victims without symptoms can still be contagious
German doctors show CDC wrong about spread of disease
Published: 13 hours ago
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/ebola-victims-without-symptoms-could-still-be-contagious/#fKgUYKQ4ZxTIV6ty.99
What’s seriously wrong about the CDC is that they should have been cautious all along. If a disease kills a majority even with treatment, in a short amount of time, caution is justified, even if you can’t prove airborne or asymptomatic contagion.
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