CDC: 150 People Enter U.S. Per Day from Ebola-Stricken Countries--or 4,500 Per Month

CNSnews ^ | October 9, 2014 | Susan Jones

[Don Corleone]

Accept no, repeat no passport holders from the affected countries. My God, we turned away the sick at Ellis Island. Should we do less now?

[txrefugee]

You can bet there is enough vaccine stashed somewhere for the “indispensable” people. The 99.9% don’t matter.

[MulberryDraw]

He also noted "signs of progress" in West Africa: "For example, we're seeing more safe burials in Liberia.

Peachy! I feel much safer already. (do i need a sarc tag?)

[BuffaloJack]

150 possible Ebola carriers arriving per day.
There needs to be a holding facility, i.e., hotel (FEMA camp) run by armed disease control staff, where these people can incubate for 22 days after arrival.
If they don’t show symptoms in 22 days (incubation period plus one) then they are free to continue their journey.
If they even get the sniffles in that period, then it’s off to infectious solitary isolation for a month.

[Former Proud Canadian]

"150 people a day arrive in the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea"

This is sooo easy.

Ask every traveler if they have been to these countries in the last however many (21)days. Tell those who have that they will face a quarantine of 30 days upon arrival in the US, at a nominal expense. Or, they can wait until that same period is up and fly then.

I can't make it any simpler.

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Jack Hydrazine]

And where are you going to put 4,500 per month?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

In the early 1980’s when AIDS came to the forefront, Haitians were prevented from entering the USA when they were thought to be carriers.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I know he is.

[Red in Blue PA]

And if “only” one tenth of one percent have ebola, that is still 4.5 people per month entering who have ebola.

[RightGeek]

[null and void]

Not to worry. 90% have never even been exposed to Ebola...

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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...

[DoughtyOne]

I had forgotten about that. Seems reasonable. Keep it contained. Not a hard concept to understand or buy into.

Thanks for reminding us.

[MulberryDraw]

"We need airlines to continue to operate in West Africa; and we need borders to remain open," Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.

Kerry could have the dubious honor of owning the quote for the ages.

[aces]

Lol naje it the bawney frank play closet..

[aces]

We the infidels are expendable..

[DoughtyOne]

That's 4500 reasons enough on days one through thirty, and tens of thousands of reasons by day 60.


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[Cowgirl of Justice]

Please repost this everywhere. There was no outcry then, it was just needed to be done. Haiti didn’t implode.

Many will remember when that happened and how civilized it was.

[Amendment10]

It would be interesting to know how long this situation concerning people coming from ebola-striken countries has existed. Ebola may not be as contageous as we are inclined to think. (But better to overreact than to be sorry.)

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