Regardless, I got back to my other comment: Keystone cops.
Then comes CYA.
Then what happens? Oh, they might actually tell people what to do to prevent the spread.
I sent a message to someone earlier this morning that stated,
The hygiene situation in this country is pathetic. If it gets here, we WILL have an outbreak.We agree on more than I think either of us realize...but I'm busy this afternoon and will have to catch up this evening...it's hit n run news on FR...so hopefully nothing real serious happens between now & then...I see people nearly every day fail to wash their hands coming out of a restroom. People walk down the sidewalk, store aisles, malls and openly cough with no concern to hygiene or spreading contact via touch or sputum.
We're forced to use reusable grocery bags. Checkers handle these bags of questionable cleanliness. They then handle the next person's food and bag(s).
The probability of creating an outbreak as a result of DOWNPLAYING this, rather than being honest with the public and doing EVERYTHING to prevent it getting to the US is VERY HIGH. The public message should be basic hygiene reinforcement and basic flu season precautions. It's the incubation/infectious period before showing symptoms that make this so dangerous.
This article is interesting
and merits comparison to our current age for reasons ranted about prior. We're lucky it's not spread by birds/pigs/rats/etc. But it may not matter. It 'is' school season and we have both the Enterovirus outbreak and now a possible Ebola situation.
They never should have brought those infected 'doctors' to CONUS for treatment (should have been a hospital ship) and flights, connecting OR direct, from Africa should not come direct to the US without special quarantine procedures.
I was actually paying attention to the Nigerian media (and social media) during the whole Sawyer thing. I lived there about 40 years ago and have a fondness for the people and still have a few friends there.
The Nigerians were ULTRA careful with everything about this disease. There was NO cavalier treatment or attitude. Especially once their medicos became ill and started dying. Even the janitor at MMA who cleaned up after Sawyer became ill and died. Last I heard his wife was under quarantine/observation. I haven’t heard if she passed away or not. Hopefully her hubby’s uniform was taken care of by some service associated with the airport and she wasn’t exposed to it that way.
We would never shut a whole hospital over a single patient. Which is why we aren’t as serious about stopping the outbreak as the Nigerians were.
And they took him straight from the airport to a private hospital and then into a private room. His exposure to an ER or other patients was at a minimum compared to the Dallas patient.
And they took a LOT of flak for shutting down air travel to the countries affected. They basically gave WHO the finger.
I can see the TSA agent that fondled this patient using the same pair of gloves on the next 100 victims in line...so we aren’t much better hygiene wise either. Especially since the infective dose is like 1-10 virons.