Posted on 08/01/2014 5:35:08 PM PDT by Kartographer
Despite concerns around the globe that the Ebola virus may continue to spread and mutate into something even more deadly, the director of the CDC attempted to assuage fears about the possibility of an outbreak on U.S. soil.
“It is not a potential of Ebola spreading widely in the U.S.,” director Thomas Friedman told reporters on a conference call Thursday. “That is not in the cards.”
But while the CDC downplays the potential threat, emergency planners behind the scenes have been getting ready since as early as April of this year. In a report presented to Congress while the virus was spreading in West Africa, the Department of Defense said that it has dispatched biological detection kits to National Guard units in all 50 states with the capability of diagnosing the virus in infected patients in as little as 30 minutes.
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Ack, I thought TX had 2 facilities but didn’t know about Houston. It doesn’t bring much comfort that we need 3 out of the 20 nation wide. I know, illegals and all but geez.
M-O-O-N. That spells Obama Sucks.
I don’t like that they picked all major cities.
They obviously believe they can contain it. But if they are wrong smaller cities would have been a better pick.
The only one that half way makes sense is the one located at the tip of florida. But even that one is Miami.
With the absolute lack of proper response by anyone anywhere on this that is supposed to be responsible my guess is that Ebola is already here.
International travel and lack of any type of quarantine has let the virus travel the globe potentially.
The next few days, two weeks at the most, and we will know just how bad this thing may be and can get.
Ping...
I wonder if the gubmint will wait until the crops are in, because all the people they are importing probably don't know jack about running and maintaining a combine with a 50 ft. header...
I was Marcella advice. I believe she said it was hard to work with the thicker gloves. Marcella?
How the hell can the Director CDC be so careless with his choice of words in a public statement? It will spread, just not widely? Ebola virus has playing cards, or the CDC is playing cards with population eradication? Am I reading too much into this phraseology?
Bleach/water solution. Generally a standard 10:1 mix. Let stand on surfaces until dry
Yeah, well, I’m preparing for the worst anyway.
I want to have plenty of medical supplies on hand as I do not want to have my medicines and medical supplies coming from some third world country that is in the throes of an Ebola outbreak.
I figure if I get them now, I have much less of a risk of getting contaminated supplies.
I am also stocking up on household stuff and meat, as I usually do come the fall anyway.
CNY is no picnic in the winter and it looks like the outlook is for another bad one. I always prep for winter anyways so as to avoid hauling in lots of bulky stuff through the snow, ice, and slop.
We live a fair distance from the nearest grocery store so I like to be able to go for a few weeks without needing to run out for every little thing. It would be nice to know that I could avoid human contact for a few weeks, although my husband has to go to work and my 20 something daughter just rolls her eyes a lot about the thought of taking precautions to avoid something like this. She’ll learn.
I’m wondering how Ebola does in a cold climate, whether it kills the virus on environmental surfaces more quickly with the cold and dry.
As I stated earlier in this thread its hard to make heads or tails out of the ‘experts’ words. In one case they declare you have to soak yourself in the infected person’s body fluids, yet they are looking for a great number of people connected to the plane flight that one infected person was on to Nigeria? They say it won’t come to America and yet they are prepping facilities and handing out gear to the military. No quarantines when there should have been and now that they have started them they have to search for people who may have been exposed??
An invasion planned and orchestrated using ‘children’ is the hallmark of the obamaroid regime, but the media —being the fifth column enemy of America that they are— will not report the truth about this invasion treason by L4B and his thugs.
I got so much grief over posting this but here goes again:
I’ve been thinking about this for sometime since they found MERS in the air of a camel barn in Saudi while the Ebola outbreak was growing.
I don’t know if Ebola, MERS or something entirely different will lead to a SHTF event, but with the present ‘Open’ border policy bringing in any number of communicable diseases and the real chance that some carriers could be sent here on purpose as ‘bio bombs’ it brings up a real possibility of extended quarantines being imposed. In fact it may get to a point in which a wise person will impose a quarantine on their family even if health officials don’t.
There are more than a few FReepers who like to point out how silly they see preparing for a ‘Mad Max’ situation is, but what if it isn’t ‘Mad Max’? What if it is something as simple as being able to shelter in place for 30-60 days while an outbreak runs its course? Could you make it through such a quarantine self imposed or mandator with what you have in your home? If you haven’t thought about it maybe its time.
It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
It's the same thing. If one person sneezes, everyone in the radius of 5-10 yards will "soak himself in his body fluids." Perhaps not much, but viruses are very, very small - and Ebola is very, very contagious. Contamination of US-trained doctors who work in Africa cannot be waved away; those people know what they are dealing with - and still they got the bug.
Per WHO: "The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms, is 2 to 21 days." There is no way that the USA closes all borders, and there is no way to hold travelers in quarantine for at least 3 weeks. There is no desire to close land borders with Central America (by the way of Mexico) - and those Central American countries will not be obeying a sanitary regime anyway.
This is a classical situation. A prisoner can escape if at least one guard falls asleep. But the warden can keep his job only if none of his guards ever fall asleep. As the time goes by, the chance of any one guard failing his duty grows. Same here - to stop the virus you have to seal *all* entry points. Not "some", and not "most" - all 100% of them. This government does not specialize in perfect execution of its duties, so it's guaranteed that it will fail this one as well. After all, the USA does not elect Presidents because they are smart; the USA elects Presidents who are socially appealing - a sexy man, a black man, or a woman - and, often, a bureaucrat from a clan of bureaucrats. "Prior experience in management is not required."
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Ooh, I wonder whether that stuff goes on sale as the summer ends. We have a pool; stocking up would be a win-win.
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