Posted on 10/14/2014 12:21:18 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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RUSH: Here's Thomas in Washington, DC. Thomas, you're our first call today. It's great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Longtime listener first-time caller. I really appreciate what you're doing.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I wanted to make a statement that I think the American people need to hear. (huffing for air) Sorry, I was just out jogging. The... (gasping) I'm a physician here in Washington, DC. I used to be in the military.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: I do understand a little bit about viremia and infectious diseases. Before a virus can become contagious and secrete bodily fluids, et cetera, whichever way you're going to catch it, it has to start replicating and develop a viremia on your body. Before... (panting) Excuse me. According to the guidelines on the CDC, they state that 21 days is the incubation period, so to speak, and before the viral entity in your body gets large enough before it becomes contagious.
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That’s the real factor isn’t it - that it is contagious before people even realize they could be contagious, then closing the borders is a MUST, not an IF!
Americans need wake up and smell the coffee.
But that is difficult with the unionized teachers who face no competition, churning out low information graduates.
Has anyone considered what would have happened if Duncan had survived? And what I mean by that is, what the news would have been in his home country and what would have followed. There would have been a mad rush for anyone who thought they might be infected to get here by any means possible to be cured. By him not surviving that issue was substantially reduced. I wonder if that was a factor in his treatment?
FWIW I contacted and came down with chicken pox and never saw anyone with active chicken pox in the students I was in association with. So yes, I believe the doctor entirely. The virus has to replicate all over your body before your body succumbs to the disease symptoms.
That could still be a factor, because everyone else that came here for treatment has lived.
He is the only one that died, but then he had no insurance.
Treatment minus insurance is always sub par.
He did not need insurance. He received the best care possible at taxpayer expense. 40 medical staff cared for this patient in that Dallas Hospital.
The doctor speaks the truth. The only reasonable thing to do is close the borders. But 0 wants to bring it here because he hates the country.
It’s almost as if they WISH millions of Americans sick and desperate and dying.
We need to rise up now. Somehow.
Once he came back they did, first they sent him home with a worthless Rx.
With no insurance you have to be near death to get admitted.
They will patch someone up just enough so they don’t die in the parking lot, then boot them out. Next please!
What do you mean, “...there would have been...”. They’re already crossing over our southern border.
State Department employees have in the past two weeks already talked with people from west Africa who intend moving north through Central America to cross over our southern border.
It is my understanding that 70 or more healthcare workers participated in the care of patient zero.
Working in the field myself I’m comfortable that number may have been well exceeded.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
How safe do you think unprotected sex and intimate kissing with a pre-symptomatic nurse would be?
I don’t need to hear all that. Common sense says you don’t allow the fights into the country.
The family imposed a 21-day quarantine for her but the dad's employer, Augustana College, put him on leave indefinitely on the advice of the local health department.
It's sad; these are extraordinary times. She is not getting a warm welcome. Indeed, the whole community is reacting very negatively to her coming here now.
Meanwhile I heard the doctor call, the first part. He said he had been jogging and was obviously out of breath. Rush talked to him for a bit then asked him to hold on and catch his breath. My question is how do you come in from jogging out of breath, speed dialing Rush, and still not having caught your breath and get right on the air. Just seemed odd. Maybe Rush had some arrangement with the doctor.
Thanks for posting the transcript. I was listening intently to what the doctor was saying, echoing my non-professional thoughts, and then my daughter came and needed to talk so I didn't get to hear the rest of it.
It may be that the sooner this disease is caught, under competent medical treatment, the better your chances to survive.
However, it is true that had he survived, the floodgates would probably have opened to sick people. They've already opened anyway.
We need to rise up now. Somehow.
From the transcript:
CALLER: We can. But again you can't put a political agenda ahead of a national crisis that could occur if we allow this virus to spread unchecked in the United States. It would devastate our economy in the long run, if it gets that bad. We can't do this. We can't handle this.
RUSH: I agree with you. Don't misunderstand. I don't think that way of thinking is prevalent in the highest levels of government. I don't think it's that way at all. I have other worries about that. All you have to do today is take a look at the lead headlines on The Drudge Report.
CALLER: Yup.
RUSH: It's a ready-made recipe for authoritarian figures to start dictating all kinds of controls on the people of this country. Not African countries but people of this country.
CALLER: Any thinking person would have to wonder is this by design, as Ben Carson said a couple of weeks ago on national news. You know, this is a recipe for disaster. There may be civil unrest in the next year or so based on the way our administration is handling its crises. We're not handling them well. Either by design or by nefarious inactions, it's showing it can't adequately handle its own national security issues from outside or from within. It's scary.
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