Posted on 10/15/2014 5:55:19 PM PDT by knak
Dallas County officials are considering asking Gov. Rick Perry (R) to declare a state of emergency for an area that has reported three cases of Ebola.
The county commissioners will meet Thursday afternoon to weigh the option, the Dallas Morning News reported late Wednesday.
A state of emergency would activate "appropriate recovery and rehabilitation aspects of all applicable local or interjurisdictional emergency management plans," according to state law.
It would also authorize emergency aid and assistance. Governors typically declare a state of emergency after a natural disaster.
Perry said Wednesday that he is in daily contact with state health leaders as regularly communicating with White House officials.
“This is the first time that our nation has had to deal with a threat such as this," Perry said in a statement Wednesday. "Every relevant agency at the local, state and national levels is working to support these individuals"
Dallas has reported two cases of Ebola since Saturday. Both patients are healthcare workers who had helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died from the disease last week.
Hospital staffers were not expected to be at risk of contracting the virus and were not being actively monitored by state or federal health officials. One of the nurses also took a flight into a Dallas airport just hours before she was diagnosed.
Liberia and Sierra, which have recorded thousands of cases of Ebola, have both declared a state of emergency since this summer.
I believe if Perry does then 0bola will declare martial law which is what I believe was intended in the first place...and not just to stop the national election but to destroy Texas as well.
I give it a day or two before libs like Sheila Jackson Lee demand that the November election be postponed because people are afraid to go to the polls.
Huh?
Might want to review the fine print on declaring a state of emergency. Certain individual rights could be restricted or curtailed. Not saying it wouldn’t be beneficial or that it’s not necessary, just that some aspects will be objectionable to conservatives.
. . . and Texas would be just fine without it.
That's right we've never had a deadly epidemic.
1793 Philadelphia: more than 4,000 residents died from yellow fever.
1832 July–Aug., New York City: over 3,000 people killed in a cholera epidemic. Oct., New Orleans: cholera took the lives of 4,340 people.
1848 New York City: more than 5,000 deaths caused by cholera.
1853 New Orleans: yellow fever killed 7,790.
1867 New Orleans: 3,093 perished from yellow fever.
1878 Southern states: over 13,000 people died from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley.
1916 Nationwide: over 7,000 deaths occurred and 27,363 cases were reported of polio (infantile paralysis) in America's worst polio epidemic.
1918 March–Nov., nationwide: outbreak of Spanish influenza killed over 500,000 people in the worst single U.S. epidemic. 1949 Nationwide: 2,720 deaths occurred from polio, and 42,173 cases were reported.
1952 Nationwide: polio killed 3,300; 57,628 cases reported.
1957 Nationwide: an Asian flu outbreak killed 70,000 before it was completely eradicated.
Read more: Major U.S. Epidemics | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001460.html#ixzz3GGfzQgCn
Amen. Particularly since the money would apparently go to county government, which is headed by the incompetent Clay Jenkins and his commissioners.
Prior to the revolutionary war, one bunch of my ancestors got to sit out quarantine during a smallpox epidemic. On a boat in Charleston harbor. At their expense.
They survived. Last count was 15K+ descendants.
The nurse didn’t even have hazmat gear. They cared for the patient with just gowns, gloves and face shields. They received no special training. It’s likely they got sick because they didn’t know the correct doffing procedure.
But in the last few day we KNOW that wasn’t enough. The second nurse has no excuse for traveling. I don’t give a chit WHAT the CDC told her she already was well aware of the risks involved.
the us govt continues to not protect our country and borders from invasion...
Very true! That big influx from other states every now and then during booms in northern Texas must be a real nuisance.
You have to ask yourself why Texas????? Most can conclude the obvious
$$$$$$$$
I’ll bet they aren’t afraid to go to the State Fair going on in Dallas right now. I wouldn’t go, but it’s packed all the time.
Perry has been MIA on Ebola.
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