Posted on 10/01/2014 12:34:14 PM PDT by GraceG
So at what level/number of ebola cases in the USA should people consider self quarantining themsevles in order to either avoid getting infected or in order to wait out a few weeks in case you may have picked it up to prevent spreading it.
Here is what I have a framework:
1. 1,000 cases in the United States with 0 in your own state.
2. 500 cases in the United States with 1 or more in your home state.
3. 250 cases in the United States with 1 or more in your home city/town.
4. 10 cases in the united states with 1 or more in your neighborhood (4-10 block radius).
Just a quick list on what I think, but not I am not an expert...
Dallas is not that far from Houston considering this started in Western Africa!
I’m going to listen to the FR experts and kiss everyone with it, confident I won’t contract it.
I'd say a lot of folks that have been making fun of the survivalist culture are not laughing so much any more.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Seriously, number of cases is not so important a factor as proximity, and whether those cases are along major transport corridors to where I live.
I think many of us started to ‘self-quarantine, in a sense, a while ago.
I no longer eat in restaurants and avoid fast-food as though it might contain the plague.
Take a trip? Been taking my own food for ten years now.
I think it is about time for the end of the world people to tell us what they think this will result in.
Are they thinking the death toll will be 5 million, 50 million, 250 million Americans, what?
Do they think it will be ten times the flu death toll, or a 100 times, a 1000 times?
They keep running through the streets screaming that this is the end of the world, but they won’t tell us what numbers it would take to equal their predictions and claims.
Would you be “permitted” to hole up in your house/apartment?
An infected person who chooses to remain at home (or undiagnosed person) could meet some pressure from “authorities”.
Pressure should’ve been put on points of entry. The powers that be refused to do that.
We may not be able to screen and observe when they get on a plane but we can hold them at customs and deny entry if we choose to.
I say stock up on canned food, bottled water, propane, crackers/rice/flour/bread/pasta, books to read, generator fuel, plastic sheeting, duct tape and anything else you might need to keep you and yours provided with the necessities for 30 days or more.
Given those choices - #3
” Do you mean at what point do you grab your “bug out bag” and take your family and implement your survival plan? “
This is more: Phase 1, stay at home, keep your kids from going to school and tell work you won’t be going in for a while...
Phase 2 is bug the hell out of dodge...
Ask Bill Gates, he’s okay with seeing a dramatic drop off in the world’s population.
He also has a giant yacht. That ought to keep him safe from the fray.
Howard Hughes was a germophobe in his later years too.
Quarantine is what you do to someone who has probably had contact with a infected person in a bio crisis.
Self quarantine would require the same underpinning to be valid.
Hiding in your residence due to fear, is not quarantine.
It’s sheltering in place.
We’re a day’s drive up I 35. Way too close.
Why not just post your figures? Why bring up the guy who helped end the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria?
“After the first patient — a dying Liberian-American — flew into Lagos on July 20, Ebola spread to 20 other people there and in a smaller city, Port Harcourt.
They have all now died or recovered, and the cure rate — 60 percent — was unusually high for an African outbreak.
Meanwhile, local health workers paid 18,500 face-to-face visits to repeatedly take the temperatures of nearly 900 people who had contact with them. The last confirmed case was detected on Aug. 31, and virtually all contacts have passed the 21-day incubation period without falling ill.
The success was in part the result of an emergency command center financed in 2012 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fight polio. As soon as the outbreak began, it was turned into the Ebola Emergency Operations Center.”
When we have a dream and in that dream is Peter Framton singing ‘Do you Feel Like I Do’?
I staged our reactions to pandemics depending on cases in the state/country. We self quaranteine when it spreads to multiple locations within Texas or is seen locally. This is the point where all outside contact that is not essential is stopped. Visitors are turned away and we set a decon room.
Before that, when its seen within the State (and isn't an isolated case...which means if the 2nd patient in DFW is positive for Ebola...) we enact essential travel only procedures and wear PPE (gloves/mask) when outside the home. We also do limited decon upon entering the home.
Money.....can carry it.....U.S. will go electronic.
Letters are coming from africa......lots of letters
We wake up singing Bad Company?
I would self quarantine when blood streams out my eyes, ears and anus. Self quarantine with a.357
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