Posted on 10/03/2014 7:58:43 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Five members of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department who were briefly inside the apartment where a man with Ebola stayed have been temporarily put on leave.
"They're very concerned," said Christopher Dyer, president of the Dallas County Sheriff's Association. "Their families are concerned. You've got to go home and tell your spouse, 'Hey, I was just inside this house where a guy had Ebola.'"
The three deputies, a sergeant, and a lieutenant accompanied the head of Dallas County Health and Human Services Department and a doctor into the apartment late Wednesday night. They had gone there on the orders of Sheriff Lupe Valdez to get the people inside to sign a court order forbidding them from leaving the apartment.
Dyer said deputies should never have been involved to begin with, because he considers it a federal issue and not a local matter.
"My concern is for the deputies and their families, and I want to see Dallas County do everything that they can to alleviate their concerns," Dyer said.
The deputies are expected to return to work in a few days, Dyer said.
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Under Texas law, the controlling health authority, Dallas County Health in this case, is legally required to inform in writing the individuals subject to a public health control order.
Their signatures were likely required for informed consent because the local health authority will be administering medical treatment/tests and because they are subject to prosecution for violating the order. (Kind of like when an officer has you sign a speeding ticket. You make an acknowledgment by your signature.)
Anyone hear of Putin having Ebola in his country? No, didn’t think so.
My understanding is that it is a fecal matter.
And handed the pen to their kid to do homework with that evening. Junior would probably chew on it while he munched on Cheetos and licked the cheese powder off his fingers and today his teacher is grading a paper with strange orange smears. No, probably not infectious but it just takes one slip up to send it into the wild.
And if it is, what do we do? Think the economy was bad after 9/11? Imagine an ebola outbreak panic.
Hard as I tried, I couldn’t find ONE that was regulated for Ebola cleanup.
We, the little people are the CANARY IN THE COAL MINE.
So where the heck are the Feds??? The CDC suits keep telling us they have this under control, and yet we see no evidence that they're doing nothing other than telling its under control.
Everything is "optics" with this stupid administration.
And Obama is sending over 3000 American military troops into Ebola country. I would go AWOL in a heartbeat.
I read two days ago that for every 100 people who come into contact with an Ebola patient, 5 become infected.
As we know that PZ came into contact with about 100 people, I’m expecting 5 cases. (That’s if the CDC’s numbers are correct. They may very easily be off by a factor of 100 - considering they aren’t even factoring in the apartment manager and the guy who power washed the vomit.)
Darwin awards
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