Posted on 10/17/2014 3:50:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s showtime for the Doomsday set. As the lethal virus crosses America’s doorstep, prep kits and gas masks are flying off shelves and fringe survivalists are going mainstream.
Jason Charles knows the exact moment he will lead his wife and five kids out of their Harlem home, pile into a car, and take off for the wilderness. It will be not long after Ebola reaches the population of New York City, hospitals overflow, and looting begins—when the first riots break out on the streets of Manhattan.
“Right now it isn’t bad, but if the first case happens in New York, you start hearing about hundreds or thousands of people getting sick and it shotguns through the city, then you want to start getting your plan together to leave,” says the 37-year-old fireman and dedicated prepper. When that happens, he says, “it’s a free fall, that’s the system breaking down.”
But the moment of evacuation is delicate. Skipping work, pulling the kids out of school—all of these decisions have lasting consequences. “If you leave too early, you look like an idiot; if you leave too late, you could be dead,” Charles says....
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Jason Charles is assuming his travel at that point will still be free and unrestricted.
Don’t think it will be that bad, I think it is definitely going to get worse before it gets better. However you don’t go ANYWHERE, you lock your doors, board up the windows. Sit inside and wait it out.
Jason Charles, in my estimation, is a straw man, an agent provocateur, an amalgam of characters or made up out of whole cloth. It wouldn’t be the first time a journalist had used that technique.
Way too many people would rather die than be thought a fool.
Look at the story of Noah...
Possible case about 30 miles from where I’m at.
At this time, there are no reports of increased security at area hospitals.
Having lived in that area I have to agree.
But there’s the assumption that they will be allowed to cross the bridges or tunnels out of manhattan. I dispute that.
I’m an ER nurse in a large northern Ohio city. As such, I am watching this situation develop very closely. If it makes it to my ER, it’s time for an honest assessment of the situation and the existing plan. I won’t run away like a coward but if I observe bad/dangerous policies and someone attempts to compel me to abide by that decision/policy, I’m bugging out, immediately.
NYC is easier to lock down than say Houston. NYC is only reached by a few bridges and tunnels. Chokepoints. Swimming the East River is dodgy and a great way to drown. Swimming the Hudson is dodgy in winter unless you’re already healthy. And neither will really allow you to take preps with you. Or kids.
“I’m an ER nurse in a large northern Ohio city.”
A couple of questions.
Do you have on hand, right at this moment, full PPE suits, with NO exposed area, in large supply?
Have you been trained and actually put on and taken off that suit?
yes and sort of.
Is a washdown with bleach solution part of the decon procedure at your hospital?
There is also a persistent myth that the health workers should not have been infected because they were "protected". But they were not, there is clearly a possibility of spread by droplets and the costumes they were given were not airtight.
All that said, with the admin bringing in 150 new potential cases per day we are screwed. The health care system will be overrun with flu cases along with a few ebola cases and that will cause needless deaths and cost billions. The healthcare system may be destroyed and then federalized. There will be more spread from the low probabity cases like low symptom people sneezing. I would not be worried about fomite (surfaces) until people are bleeding in the street or inside cabs.
That is what other hospitals were doing the last day I worked. My hospital didn’t react as quickly initially and is a day behind the other hospitals in establishing a war footing. I am, happily, off for a few days. I do not know if they have established an official buddy team/decon plan yet. I hope so. Once a patient with ebola enters the waiting room, it’s hard to say what might transpire. It would be my preference that it never make it through the front door. It might not be time to set up the tent but it’s time to get the tent ready to be set up.
Excellent that they’re doing that.
The MSF protocol has kept most of them safe for several decades worth of ebola outbreaks. Outside of a bhl4 equipped hospital/lab it’s the best that’s really possible in the real world.
Those who have prepared, will check and double check their stock.
Those just starting, will have to pay the exorbitant price, and good luck finding some gears.
Calling them 'fringe survivalists' just showed their foresight.
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