Posted on 10/14/2014 4:58:29 AM PDT by yldstrk
I have been out of the country all month, returning over the weekend. Staying up on American news while abroad was not a priority for me; I looked in every few days. When I was standing in the customs line at JFK, a fellow passenger told me that the airport was going to begin screening travelers from West African flights for fever starting tomorrow. We talked about Ebola, and took comfort that it isn’t passed pneumonically. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized what a vector for transmission an airplane toilet would be. The BBC asked experts about this, and concluded that the chances of infection via airplane passenger are low.
Anyway, I learned over the weekend that to raise the question of whether or not we should refuse travelers from Ebola-infected countries is to identify oneself as a right-wing nut, and possibly even a racist. Apparently — according to some liberal readers of this blog — Limbaugh and the usual suspects are working Ebola fears into political talking points. It is therefore required of all decent and right-thinking people to take the opposite position. So I’ve learned.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Interesting. Thanks. So the best prepared hospitals aren’t in places I’d expect (or Schumer thinks either). Nor is the US nearly as prepared as the CDC and present Obala is claiming.
“Schumer: NY hospitals better prepared than Dallas for ebola”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214819/posts
There are, in fact, a total of four medical isolation units in the entire United States, as we noted yesterday, that are capable of handling infected Ebola patients near endlessly.
Where are they, and what can they handle?
Emory University’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit is in Atlanta, GA. That’s where Brantly and Writebol were treated. It has three beds. St. Patrick Hospital’s ICU Isolation Unit is in Missoula MT. It has three beds. The National Institute of Health’s Special Clinical Studies Unit is in Bethesda MD. It has seven beds. And the biggest, the Nebraska Medical Center’s Biocontainment Unit is in Omaha NE. It has ten beds.
3+3+7+10=23 beds, coast to coast.
So, for the entire country, all 316,100,000+ of us, we’re fully prepared to treat 23 Ebola patients at the same time.
It's amazing that in the five years since the gov hasn't set up a facility which could handle an extreme situation. Heck, for all we know the gov already has one for the elite.
(gosh, and to think I used to laugh at conspiracy theorists <^..^>)
Hillary wrote " it takes a village." But it took only one doofus--- Obama---to expose the lib/prog's dumb "humanitarian" elitism that is endangering Americans and their families.
These brain-dead, feel-good types with a "Heart of Gold," believe “singling out” backward nations or antediluvian cultures which pose deadly threats to the public health or safety of Americans “stigmatizes” those nations or cultures, it “shames” them, it makes them "feel" unequal.
It’s (horrors) "judgmental."
We can never, Ever suggest that America prefers already existing tax-paying, law-abiding citizens to diseased foreigners or those w/ big plans for our heads.
Well, that’s one more bed than I had chased down. I had previously posted there were only 22. My bad.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
You're right Liz... Also, conservatives are looking for 'immigrants' who will be our neighbors and fellow citizens.
Liberal elites want immigrants as servants or dependent voters who will keep white liberal elites in office.
LOL - good on grania
Liberal elites want servants; dependent voters on-the- dole, who'll keep white liberal elites in office.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thank you for enumerating the cold hard facts. I am saving them for future reference to educate those that are intelligent enough to grasp them,, and to hell with the libs - they are morons anyway!
Thanks for this update and where these units are. Earlier this week, we heard that there were 19 beds.
Interesting that about half the beds are in low population areas like Montana and Nebraska. Makes one wonder why in those spots/areas.
I did a little editing on your last sentence.
“There are, in fact, a total of four medical isolation units in the entire United States, as we noted yesterday, that are capable of handling infected Ebola patients near endlessly.
Where are they, and what can they handle?
Emory University’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit is in Atlanta, GA. That’s where Brantly and Writebol were treated. It has three beds. St. Patrick Hospital’s ICU Isolation Unit is in Missoula MT. It has three beds. The National Institute of Health’s Special Clinical Studies Unit is in Bethesda MD. It has seven beds. And the biggest, the Nebraska Medical Center’s Biocontainment Unit is in Omaha NE. It has ten beds.
3+3+7+10=23 beds, coast to coast.
So, for the entire country, all 316,100,000+ of us, we’re fully prepared to safely and properly treat 23 Ebola patients at the same time.”
pneumonically
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I guess he means “pneumatically”....
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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