How Bad Could It Get? US Government Order Of 160,000 HazMat Suits Gives A Clue

ZeroHedge ^ | 10/1/14 | Tyler Durden

[Kartographer]

Now that Ebola is officially in the US on an uncontrolled basis, the two questions on everyone's lips are i) who will get sick next and ii) how bad could it get?

We don't know the answer to question #1 just yet, but when it comes to the second one, a press release three weeks ago from Lakeland Industries, a manufacturer and seller of a "comprehensive line of safety garments and accessories for the industrial protective clothing market" may provide some insight into just how bad the US State Department thinks it may get. Because when the US government buys 160,000 hazmat suits specifically designed against Ebola, just ahead of the worst Ebola epidemic in history making US landfall, one wonders: what do they know the we don't?

[Kartographer]

The Government has been gearing up like this with long term food, ammo and so forth for several years now, but if a person decides that they don't wish to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them or don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding them in line and telling them where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least they don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get then you are a crazy tin foil hat or a selfish un-Chirstian SOB!

[Joe Brower]

Real easy to make holes in those suits. Just sayin’.

[Kartographer]

Ping!

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Suits were probably made in sweatshops in Liberia

[blackdog]

Kind of sums up quite nicely the outcome of Obama’s presidency. The death of us all, and our keepers in some sort of 12 Monkeys scenareo.

[gaijin]

Ping

[wtd]

Patient identified . . .children may have been exposed:

Sister: US Ebola patient said he was from Liberia

DALLAS — The sister of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States says he told relatives he notified officials the first time he went to the hospital that he was visiting from Liberia.

Mai Wureh says her brother, Thomas Eric Duncan, went to a Dallas emergency room on Friday and they sent him home with antibiotics. She says he said hospital officials asked for his Social Security number and he said that he didn’t have one because he was visiting from Liberia.

Duncan arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 20 to be with relatives in Dallas. He began to develop symptoms last Wednesday and sought care two days later. He was released and returned to the hospital and was admitted Sunday.

Dallas ISD superintendent Mike Miles also revealed that five children from four of the district's campuses were possibly exposed to the virus.

Two of the five schools identified by Miles -

• Tasby Middle and Lowe Elementary - share a campus.

  Miles identified the schools as:

• Conrad High School
• Tasby Middle School
• Hotchkiss Elementary School
• Dan D. Rogers Elementary School
• Jack Lowe Sr. Elementary School

[IYAS9YAS]

Real easy to make holes in those suits. Just sayin’.

Yup. Just put a 22/100ths of an inch hole in 'em from a distance.

[Mariner]

What they know that they are not telling us is:

This sh!t spreads like wildfire, doubling every 20 days.

And nobody knows how to contain it without severe, involuntary quarantine.

I'll say it again, even the CDC says it's doubling every 20 days and they expect up to 1.4mil cases in West Africa by January. AND they have to isolate and treat 70% to stop the doubling rate.

They have to quarantine 100% to end it.

[BuffaloJack]

And how many body bags did they order to go with those 160,000 hazmat suits?

[Sir Napsalot]

Let me guess, all those go to the people on WH/Capitol Hills and other ‘luminaries’ in DC.

[Sir Napsalot]

Pure madness.

It’s not as if nobody heard of Liberia and Ebola at all....

[Kartographer]

Seems I remember that FEMA did order a bunch of disposable coffins not to long back.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, don't be silly, you couldn't protect the whole country with only 160,000 suits, you could only protect...uh...a very few highly important...people...

All righty then, I'm off to purchase some duct tape.

[a fool in paradise]

[SE Mom]

Hmmm. .

[a fool in paradise]

I kan haz hazmat suit?

[SpaceBar]

Alex Jones ain’t looking so crazy now (despite his truther views).

[Kartographer]

I was sure it would work!