Posted on 09/15/2014 9:38:52 AM PDT by scouter
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected.
While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United States, the assumption in the checklist is that it is only a matter of time before the virus hits home.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1301646/hospital-checklist-ebola-preparedness-2014-sep.pdf
“The assumption in the checklist is that it is only a matter of time before the virus hits home”
Well, if they don’t close the airports in West Africa, I’m sure the assumption is correct.
And if they survive Ebola they get a all expenses paid trip to the Middle East where ISIS will be their host.
Well hell, if the Feds would stop importing Ebola straight into the US and stop all international flights out of East Africa we wouldn’t have to have a check-list. I think there have been four so far.
Any worker who goes to Ebola infected countries knows the risks. Bringing them back here to the US puts ALL of us at risk.
Yes.
My daughter has severe allergies and asthma and cannot tolerate vaccinations because of the base used.
The allergy specialist told me it wouldn’t be a problem not having the MMR vaccine — except deadly forms of measles are coming into this country with the immigrants.
Damn this government for allowing immigrants, legal and illegal to put the American population at risk for deadly diseases. Add TB to the list too.
Because it appears that Ebola is mutating so frequently, a vaccine would probably be useless because vaccine production will not be able to be updated and effective against ever changing strains.
I’m also worried about the asymptomatic incubation period and airborne spread.
Preppers’ PING!!! Post #19 this thread.
In most restaurants taking time off for being sick (as a cook) is basically verboten. I know, I lived it for 10+ years of my life.
I never understood the attitude, but it was prevalent.
Crock. There are reports coming out of Miami. I'll find the link...
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 mandatory with what you have in your home? If you haven’t thought about it maybe its time. Ask yourself how would I provide for my family if the power was out for a month?
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.”
I'll help you if you need so.
So they are saying we need a checklist and to prepare for something they are downplaying?
Shouldn’t that make us worry more?
I wonder how many healthcare workers are going to be willing to work Ebola cases. If they start getting infected like those in Africa I’d imagine many would say “no thanks”.
Where’s that pic of Officer Barbrady?
Oh, I know.
Contrary to what CDC has been telling us, this virus is now airborne.
I’m waiting for some of Holder’s people to start naming their kids Ebola. Could be a good name for a boy or girl.
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