Posted on 08/02/2014 9:22:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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why are we allowing it to enter hear and for what purpose?
10. Are authorities testing travelers at U.S. airports?
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Nigeria. Boko Haram. Al Qaeda in the Magreb (AQIM). Ebola.
All they have to do is infect an assembly point for travelers to the US (airport) or hotel. Maybe even manufacture a persistent presence in such assembly areas (an insider), in order to re-seed the virus over many flights.
“The grave situation prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue travel warnings on Thursday to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. They urged travelers to forgo all nonessential travel to those countries.”
When they close the airports in West Africa to departing flights we will know they are serious.
This site has an article on airborne warnings for the virus with the caveat that this (the warning)is not for general public consumption. Mildly concerning.
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/08/alert-cdc-warns-hospitals-on-ebola.html
Read the article: "When the outbreak started local health workers weren’t taking proper precautions. It spread through the hospital staff. Seven nurses from this hospital have been admitted to the centre in Monrovia; six are dead."
The nurses in question weren't covered head to toe. They didn't take the precautions that are being taken by the author of this article and they died as a result.
I cannot believe all of he uneducated worry warts popping up.
If it shows up, stay indoors. Use your prepped food and water.
There is not much else you are going to do.
Stop whining and get ready. And stop spreading BS rumors.
Yeah, I liked this quote “I think we could contain it,” he said. “We have very good isolation procedures here.”
We also have 300 million people here, many living cheek by jowl in huge densely populated cites. There is no way we have any adequate facilities to really handle a serious disease outbreak.
Imagine trying to quarantine the Bronx, or Chicago.
“The local meat market guy was in the hospital for 3 weeks with typhus...”
OMG! How did he get that? How do you know he had that?
I just listened to a long interview with a guy who’s written a book about the Polish/German scientist who created a vaccine for typhus and how he managed to sort of work-around the Nazis who controlled poland that that time.
It sounded like a dreadful disease, and I remember they said it was spread by body lice, which are very different from head lice.
But you know AIDS really is hard to get. It’s blood-to-blood with AIDS, not just “bodily fluids”.
“When they close the airports in West Africa to departing flights we will know they are serious.”
So agree that needs to be done. Or rather other countries must refuse to let flights from there land.
Disabling the airports is easier (and more humane) than shooting down inbound aircraft.
It seems the nurses were exposed before they started taking precautions.
But who would have the authority to do that? Those countries would have to do it themselves and they probably don’t want to because I’m sure there are some rich people over there and they don’t want to see their escape route closed.
Unless activists determine that those "good isolation procedures" have a disparate impact on minorities, glbt or other politically protected classes, in which case, we'll just have to die. It is not the first time that this country has attempted suicide to assuage political activists.
WHO.
Man, there go my vacation plans.
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