CDC chief on Ebola: We can’t shut the border

Politico ^ | 10/3/2014 | Jonathan Topaz

[markomalley]

Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Friday said restricting travel between the U.S. and West Africa would likely “backfire” and put Americans more at risk of contracting Ebola.

Appearing on MSNBC, Frieden was asked about potentially prohibiting air travel between the U.S. and West Africa, where the Ebola outbreak is most widespread. He said that such a restriction would likely be ineffective and would make it harder for health officials to root out the virus.

“The only way we’re going to get to zero risk is by stopping the outbreak at the source” in West Africa, Frieden said.

“Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldn’t work,” the top health official added. “People have a right to return. People transiting through could come in. And it would backfire, because by isolating these countries, it’ll make it harder to help them, it will spread more there and we’d be more likely to be exposed here.”

Frieden’s comments come as health officials continue to screen up to 100 people in Texas in connection with Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Duncan flew to the U.S. on Sept. 19, but the CDC said that he was screened before his flight in Monrovia and showed no symptoms of Ebola. Health officials say his temperature was 97.3 degrees and that he was not contagious on the flight, meaning his fellow passengers were not at risk.

While in Liberia, Duncan had contact with a woman who had the virus and helped carry her from a taxi, according to The New York Times.

On Friday, Frieden said airport screenings are reducing risks. “There are a lot of checks in place. It’s not perfect,” he said.

In several interviews and at a Thursday news briefing, the CDC director has expressed confidence that health officials will be able to contain the spread of the virus in the U.S.

On Thursday evening, NBC announced that a freelance journalist working for the network in Liberia had contracted Ebola and quarantined himself on Wednesday.

[Girlene]

Here's the story about the wheelbarrow from BBC. Ebola crisis: Liberia 'to prosecute man in US hospital

..................." Eric Vaye, a neighbour of Mr Duncan's, was also at the briefing to help with contact tracing, and said that nine people had died of Ebola in the district in recent weeks.

Mr Duncan is alleged to have pushed the wheelbarrow when taking a sick relative to a clinic.

Our reporter says this is banned and people are obliged to phone a hotline number to ensure that patients are collected by health workers so further contact with sick people is avoided."............

[Rich21IE]

To understand this, you have to understand the Globalist Elites view of the world. They truly believe in shared misery and the thought that a deadly disease could be confined to a region in Africa is anathema to them. All must suffer and all must suffer equally. Put another way, they see Africa’s problems as our problem and they’re intent on demonstrating that by allowing the epidemic to come to the US. Thus, we’re all equals and now, equally miserable.

[Califreak]

This Cloward-Piven strategy is unfolding right before our eyes

He’s only got two more years

It will get exponential

[wrench]

This is the 4th or 5th variation of the story I have read, supposedly from eye witnesses to the event

[wrench]

There is a reason for passports , they provide a record of travel. Without proper passports with appropriate custom stamps, no travel period. Disease was around 100 years ago, and immigration and travel screenings worked then, it can work today.

[MediaMole]

If we don’t shut down flights, we will be encouraging people to make a run for the US if they think they are sick.

Get to the US and guarantee the best possible care. It will be a problem.

...and no one is saying there would not be a process to evacuate American citizens from affected regions. Send a hospital ship down there, quarantine citizens until they are clear of disease, then let them come home.

LIberians, non-US citizens? No.

[Girlene]

I’ve heard a couple - the taxi and the wheelbarrow. Maybe a wheelbarrow is a taxi for sick people? Point is, he knew she was very sick. He knew he was lying at the airport.

[null and void]

Can't? CAN'T?? CAN'T??? CAN'T???? or simply won't???

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

[TheThirdRuffian]

This guy is such a weasel and a liar.

Yes, we can’t stop 100%, but if we stop most, that will slow things down dramatically.

My credit card company calls me and asks me where I am; it’s not like we can’t track where most people have been if we desired.

It’s PC bulls—t that is going to kill us.

THE reason the border is not closed is the disease carriers are black.

[tomkat]

Tom Frieden, preparing for his most recent WhiteHut visit:

             

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

rfreedom4u:" But obama wants this crisis."

Exactly !
WHen there is no miracle cure , no vaccine ,and the only medical treatment is 30% survival
You do the ONLY COMMON SENSE thing

QUARANTINE !!
to do anything less would be medical malpractice !!!

[moehoward]

The “right to return” refers to Medical and Aid workers going there. For some reason he thinks closing the West African border means losing the key.

[sportutegrl]

Straw Man. We are not asking you to CLOSE the border,just watch who comes in, especially from Ebola countries.

[IMR 4350]

“What kind of convoluted logic is that?”

That is your typical liberal left wing logic.

Would anyone like to try and convince me liberalism isn’t a mental disorder?

[TomGuy]

We can’t shut the border

Why not?

Nearly all other nations that want theirs secured manage to secure theirs. Many of those borders are in even more hostile areas, but there is not a freeflow of unknowns coming in unabated.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I have no confidence in Mr. Frieden. He previously was Nanny Bloombergs health czar.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Plus, if you think about it, those arriving in America will be getting free medical care. How many of them have health insurance? How many of them will be able to pay the hefty hospital bills resulting from their treatment if they come to America for that purpose???

[redgolum]

Magical thinking.

They would rather have ammensty and Ebola, than no Ebola.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This event is showing us what happens when liberals are in charge of our government.

We can all make a statement on election day in our own way about this and other issues.

I wish adults/conservatives were in charge now, so we would have leadership who would make appropriate decisions about this issue.

[rod1]

Let’s see....it is October and there certainly is a big distraction from years of RAT-driven political failures.