Posted on 10/17/2014 1:39:30 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
A woman who recently returned from Africa and was found vomiting today has been transferred to and isolated at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia.
Officials are scrambling to find everyone the woman has had contact with recently.
The woman became sick at approximately 9:00 a.m. this morning, and started to vomit near the Pentagon. She was on a tour bus and, if found to have Ebola, could have potentially exposed dozens to the extremely deadly virus.
The most recent reports state that hazmat teams belonging to Arlington County were at the scene of where the woman started vomiting on the bus.
However, officials stated that the hazmat team was called out of a "complete abundance of caution."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
“Returned to advocacy in 2006...advocated for... disaster relief appropriations, and monitored pandemic influenza and terrorism risk insurance issues. “
Someone who should have known better...
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
How much are all these “possible” Ebola victims going to cost the taxpayers?
I’ve never read so many articles about people throwing up in my life! Good grief!
We already know how much the first few cost. The Duncan estimate on the media was $500k, so it seems as if everyone is running with that. Remember, super-skilled care, possible air transport. It’s pricey. Maybe there’s a quantity discount down the road, but that’s nothing to hope for.
And if it turns out she really hasn’t been out of the country in the last month or so, then it gets really ... ‘interesting’.
Healthcare lobbyist gets sick on a tour bus with military guys on it, right near the pentagon.
What’s a lobbyist doing on a tour bus, in a city that she probably been in numerous times?
Publicity stunt, to bring attention to healthcare issues?
Or worse; took ipecac and deliberately did it, knowing it would gridlock the Pentagon ?..... and in the meantime, hadji and his buddies advance their plans...
Maybe she did it deliberately.
Lock down the Pentagon while hadji and his buddies advance their plot.
Thanks cedar dave!
Maggie, I hadn’t read all the way down to daves post....
Yup, right at the start of flu season we have ebola and now ebola hoaxes....
Makes it hard to distinguish unless they have a quick test widely available.
Good sleuthing! And then this:
??? Motive?
“later confessed to hospital officials she had fabricated a story about recently traveling to West Africa, multiple government sources told Fox News.”
“despite what she initially told police officers at the scene, there was no evidence she had recently left the country.”
Woman who caused Ebola scare at Pentagon admits she made up story about traveling to West Africa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216582/posts
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... and that’s the end of it? people are being arrested for false ebola scares?
Gambler, 60, Arrested On Felony Charge For Ebola Joke Inside Cleveland Casino
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/man-arrested-for-ebola-joke-576432
The official buzz phrase of the day.
If I had a fever and was barfing I would probably opt for the White House tour instead of the Pentagon tour. But, that's just me.
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