Posted on 08/21/2014 3:04:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
I was saying the same thing about bringing the infected back and some FReepers were adament that it was no big deal because ebola coming to the Uas was pretty much inevitable.
I was kind of shocked at that.
The CDC, the US Army and DOD have a lot of Americans involved in fighting Ebola in Africa, I would hope that they have given some thought to treating them if infected.
The special isolation clinic at Emory University Hospital was built 12 years ago to treat CDC researchers and others who got infected with Ebola or similar infections, the CDC is just down the street from Emory.
The risks associated with flying those patients all the way back to the USA were never publicly mentioned. Little items like, engine failure in flight...it does happen. Weather making it impossible to land because of winds, low visibility etc. Anything which would have made a prudent captain divert to an alternate destination thus delivering his passengers to a situation for which they had not prepared...etc...etc. Thank God all went well.
Franklin Graham has proven to be a faux “Christian”. To bring to America anyone who might be an Ebola patient is egregiously irresponsible.
There was no medical necessity sufficient to risk bringing Ebola to America. Just because someone willingly went to an Ebola plagued region, supposedly “called” by religion, is no reason to risk bringing Ebola to America. In America, freedom of religion is individual and stops where it impacts another Americans rights.
Witness away, Mr Graham, as that is your right as an American. Should Ebola have been introduced, may you and yours be the victims as you made a positive decision to risk such importation of Ebola. The rest of America did not so decide.
I’d like to hear a rebuttal from Mr. Graham, including whether he thinks Americans would have voted to “take the Ebola Challenge”.
Franklin Graham has proven to be a faux “Christian”. To bring to America anyone who might be an Ebola patient is egregiously irresponsible.
There was no medical necessity sufficient to risk bringing Ebola to America. Just because someone willingly went to an Ebola plagued region, supposedly “called” by religion, is no reason to risk bringing Ebola to America. In America, freedom of religion is individual and stops where it impacts another Americans rights.
Witness away, Mr Graham, as that is your right as an American. Should Ebola have been introduced, may you and yours be the victims as you made a positive decision to risk such importation of Ebola. The rest of America did not so decide.
I’d like to hear a rebuttal from Mr. Graham, including whether he thinks Americans would have voted to “take the Ebola Challenge”.
Sorry for the double post.
Correction: the CDC is located in the MIDDLE of Emory’s campus, which is in a heavily populated neghborhood and, from the western parking lot, you can see all of downtown Atlanta with the naked eye.
Add to this that the CDC is a leading affirmative action hire and is stocked with liberals who will only hire liberals and you have one of the most dangerous situations one can imagine.
It may not be ebola, but eventually our next national catastrophe will start right there.
Mark. My. Words.
So it is actually on the campus?
About how far from the special clinic are they?
Wow, anti-Christian missionary wasn’t enough, now Franklin Graham is not even a Christian?
“Add to this that the CDC is a leading affirmative action hire and is stocked with liberals who will only hire liberals and you have one of the most dangerous situations one can imagine.
It may not be ebola, but eventually our next national catastrophe will start right there.
Mark. My. Words.”
I was thinking the sam thing. And not just at the CDC. I’m seeing signs of collapsing core competency across the board, and figured affirmative action and government education were two of the primary culprits.
Also, my gut says Obama WANTS Ebola to come to this nation so our people will suffer like the ones in Africa.
About 400 meters?
Emory univ. Hospital is at 1364 Clifton Rd. Atlanta, GA. The Cdc is, literally, on the same road. There are just some railroad tracks and a couple of buildings dividing the building complexes.
There is also an Emory Univ. hospital in midtown Atlanta, but i don’t believe that is where they went. Population-speaking, that would be even worse.
No, they were taken to the special Infectious Disease Unit created for Ebola and other such infectious diseases for CDC workers and others who might get infected.
There are four such units. “The four Patient Biocontainment Units in the United States have a combination of factors to control the spread of infectious pathogens that are not found together in any other units around the country.”
Hardly, but I was amazed he made the decision knowing the risks to others whom he could not have asked before placing them at risk.
Arguably, his decision was less than a Christian would wish to have made, had all the issues been considered.
It isn’t Christian to leave our Ebola researchers and doctors, soldiers and CDC personnel to die in Africa.
We aren’t superstitious satanists, we bring them to the facility that was especially built to treat them.
Um, nope. They were taken to Emory Univ. hospital.
It’s possible that you have a fancy name for the rooms they put them in, but it was still just good ‘ol EUH with a little extra plastic sheeting and Gorilla tape. Yep. Everyone was talking about it.
Read for yourself: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/21/health/ebola-patient-release/index.html
I hope you felt safe thinking it was some place special because we sure did not. They put us at risk because they want an award.
And more grant money. Don’t overlook that aspect.
In other words down the street from the clinic.
No, they were taken to the special unit described in post 13.
Your own link uses the head of that unit. “”Emory’s staff is confident that the American patients’ discharges pose “no public health threat,” said Dr. Bruce Ribner, director of Emory’s Infectious Disease Unit.””
From CNN——”The isolation unit was created 12 years ago in conjunction with experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is based down the street. It features “special air handling,” strict protocols on everything and everyone who goes in and out of a patient’s room, and other measures to ensure that any potential dangers are contained.
Tracking Ebola patient’s journey to U.S. Son of American battling Ebola speaks out
Everything is thought out, right down to how visitors can interact with patients. They can be within 1 to 2 inches of each other, looking through a plate-glass window and talking through an intercom.
It’s a unique facility that’s rarely used.
Ribner said it was last activated a couple of years ago, when someone came from Angola amid a Marburg virus outbreak.
“It’s kind of like an insurance policy,” the Emory physician said. “You can complain about the fact that you didn’t collect on your ... policy or you can say — as in this case — ‘Boy, we’re lucky we’ve been supporting you all these years because now we really need you.’ And it would be really challenging to develop this on the fly.”
There is nothing “Christian” going on at CDC/Emory, believe me. In any aspect. What-so-ever. Nuh-uh.
How much experience do you have in the community?
Your posts are just bizarre, Franklin Graham’s Evangelical Christian organization and the two Christian missionaries have nothing to do with CDC or Emory, except that the two missionaries are/were being treated at the special unit that you didn’t even know about.
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