Posted on 07/31/2014 7:47:14 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty
Ping...
What could possibly go wrong?
An epidemic is JUST THE THING to take our minds off F&F/Benghazi/IRS/EPA/Middle East chaos/amnesty. Yes, something that requires people to rely on Big Gub’mint once again! Hurray for our Big Gub’mint Overlords!
...but my guess is that they anticipate more cases here in the U.S. sooner or later, so the doctors want to get hold of a couple and basically experiment with them, to see if there’s any way to improve patient outcomes when they’re in a First World setting, rather than Third World.
http://www.kvia.com/news/cdc-designates-el-paso-an-ebola-quarantine-site/27255180
That's just for the cameras.
When push comes to shove, they don't care about anyone but themselves. Their 'post apocalyptic world would be a free for all.
They may not have any choice in the matter.
This reeks of Government intervention, all the way.
If that were the case they’d have brought them back last week when there was more time to treat them.
I suspect they’ve waited until Kent is no longer in posession of his faculties and relied on a weak wife or some other ruse.
Emory has this lovely level 4 containment facility they have never used. Just think of the funding stream they’ll get from this. That’s all the Emory faculty have considered.
See my 68.
It’s not just this. It’s the doctor in East TN that has ‘voluntarily’ quarantined himself having treated ebola patients while he was in Africa.
Presumably he flew back on a crowded international flight. Those flights are not short. You may feel fine getting on the flight in Africa and become ill during the flight. What then?
How totally and completely irresponsible.
Charities do NOT SPREAD disease.
If they can’t afford to fly their people back on private planes in such a situation and have a facility to quarantine them w/o their being around OTHER people they shoudn’t BE there at ALL.
How many OTHER of their ‘samaratins’ are bringing back pestilence from their ‘good deeds’?
“We vitally need this information.”
We vitally need to keep this disease out of North & South America.
One screwup and a half billion people will die.
Might end up being literally
It is one thing to place your self at risk, but a planeload of people (you only have to have a seat in the rest room), and all those they will contact in the near future (and who they will contact, etc.).
Even 24 hours of contagion before presenting serious symptoms (beyond fever, sweating, etc.) could wreak havoc.
Obama-Yutani wants Ebola for bioweapons development.
Probably for use on us.
I just heard that they're flying them into Dobbins ARB in Marietta, so I guess they'll make the 25-30 mile trip to Emory on I75, one of the busiest roads in the Country.
I just read an article that the Canadians have recently shown Ebola Zaire to be airborne transmission - from pigs to apes.
It may be my naiveness, but until that happened, I wasn’t that concerned about moving the doctor and missionary to an appropriately safeguarded US facility on non-commercial transport. And this good man (and woman) would have little to no chance where they are. The US and CDC are accustomed to handling dangerous illnesses, so I assumed they would put sufficient safeguards in place (though I grant you they’ve screwed up rather badly recently)
However, I have also read Hot Zone about Ebola Reston and folks who were scared to death of the virus still broke protocol and the virus was able to get out of the building multiple times. Had humans been vulnerable, holy moley.
You are right that folks like these die every day honoring their beliefs and given the increased danger of airborne, I agree with you that this should never have been done.
I apologize for misunderstanding your intent and concern regarding Samaritan’s Purse. I suspect their decision was made as I described above.
I’m just as concerned about apparently ‘healthy’ Samaritan’s purse missionaries returning to this country on international flights. They could easily have the disease but not be showing symptoms at the beginning of the flight. It’s a looong flight. But be showing symptoms at the end. What then? Assume it’s a touch of the flu or stomach bug or come clean and admit to the other 3 or 400 passengers that they’re returning from a hot zone?
And what if an infected but asymptomatic person was involved in an auto accident on the way home (to ‘voluntary quarantine) from the airport. They would infect every single first responder and ER person they came in contact with.
Just wholly irresponsible.
I read that a Canadian physician returned to Canada and quarantined himself (showing no symptoms, just being safe). Assuming it’s not transmissible airborne, which is now known to be a bad assumption, he would be safe as long as he quarantines himself.
The wife of the doctor who is being brought back already came back several days ago, but allegedly wasn’t exposed.
First responders allegedly treat everyone as though they have AIDs, so bloodborne transmission protocol should protect them more or less, though the average Joe is very likely to be infected.
Now that the Canadians have seen it transmitted in water droplets - which could be a good flu-ey sneeze - it is indeed irresponsible in the extreme.
This is not going to be pretty, any way it plays out. Scary stuff and even with the best of intentions, people don’t follow protocol - if you haven’t already, read The Hot Zone.
Oh yeah. I read The Hot Zone.
I thought my trust of the CDC couldn’t get much lower. But amazingly it did!
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