“Do I expect the Obama regime to be honest about who has the disease and who doesn’t? Hell no!!!”
The regime is honest about nothing, but I do not look to Obama for guidance from Obama on Ebola or anything.
I will put my trust is the medical literature I have read and it tells me we are not at great risk.
You're entitled to that option but I think the great Christian evangelist Sam Jones is quite right, as I paraphrase his words here:
That doesn't make much sense. The countries over in Africa practice quarantine methods with Ebola. So you can not separate Obama from your soothing fiction about Ebola since he does not believe in the country to country quarantine. You should therefore throw that medical lit you read in the trash can.
That’s why they wear head to toe bio-suits when they’re near it.
That being said, I do hope you’re right.
This outbreak is unprecedented in a few ways, not the least its scope and duration, but in that it has spread to cities and places where infected persons have the ability to end up literally on any continent between exposure and becoming symptomatic. All they have to do is lie.
Also unprecedented in this outbreak is the number of medical personnel who have become infected with the disease. Surely they are following the best practices they can in terms of PPE and biosafety, and know the penalty for failure to do so. They see the disease (at least those who remain alive) as a grave risk, and describe it as "highly contagious".
All that remains is for the disease to be here in the wild. Oh. We have had that.
Well, all that remains is to see if, and if, how many people become infected. With 2 to 21 days incubation, the jury is still out.
That isn't the absence of any threat, just that no threat has been confirmed (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
We'll see, but frankly, anyone who is not concerned is not paying attention. (That level of concern may increase with proximity to places Mr. Duncan was, which is normal.)
It is a sad event that that level of concern is not being translated into preventative measures to keep such an event from being repeated (with possibly disastrous results), but it appears hubris is trying to carry the day, instead.
No one who has thought through the ramifications of a contagious disease that has a mortality rate some seventeen times the Spanish Flu (at best) would be unconcerned, especially now that it has been in the wild on our shores.
Even small outbreaks here, spread out, would likely crash the economy, and if you don't trust Obama or the Government to give you the skinny, you realize how fragile that is.