lemme guess....
Nome, Alaska
Bangor, Maine
Evansville, Indiana
Santa Fe, NM
Hilo, HI
HOW LAME!
Just shut down flights from those contaminated areas!!!!!!!!
What happens if they are not feverish yet but are incubating? Seems dumb to me, how does that stop ebola? This country is nuts!
On the other hand, our fearless TSA is confiscating knitting needles from grandmothers and testing C-Pap machines for explosives at a near 100% rate. We do have to keep our priorities in order, don’t we?
CNN is already trying to play the race card on the Liberian’s treatment!
This is a perfect opportunity to cough when the TSA agent touches your junk.
More Obama “Hog Wash”!!!
nfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:
“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)
Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University
Which end?...................
If they have a fever as they get off the plane, everyone on the plane needs to be corralled and monitored.
If they do not have a fever as they get off the plane, then symptoms could start later.
Isn’t checking them here one step late?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
OK .. so let’s say you have a LIberian fleeing to the US for health care. He can’t get here from there in a single flight. He has to go thru Brussels or London. He’s a dual citizen of iIberia and, say, the UK. He can present his UK passport, arriving from London. Or say he’s from Sierra Leone and has dual SL/French passport.
Will he be checked?
Wow. 94% of people traveling to the U.S. from the hot zones will be checked for fever.
Is that 94 WHOLE percent?
If the guy next to you is popping Tylenol and Motrin throughout the flight, you’re doomed.
OH JEEZ LOUISE!!!!!!!! WHAT A BUNCH OF F’ING IDIOTS!!!!!
Taking temperatures of travelers?...Brilliant! DARWIN AWARDS for all!!!!
Is this for real. I’m drugged in the hospital, are they really saying they are letting in people wih malaria but not Ebola. Why are we letting in anyone from these countries. Medivac only Americans out in chartered private planes. Sheesh.
Showing the new guys ambulance while this idiot says his stupid stuff.
If you don’t take into account normal human nature these precautions are worthless. People,will lie, use Advil, choose other airports.
“Earnest said the five airports cover the destinations of 94 percent of the people who travel to the U.S. from the three heavily hit countries in West Africa “
So what about the other 6%? Are they to be allowed in with NO screening?
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...