Posted on 10/24/2014 12:26:36 PM PDT by dennisw
Oh, you should have been here today - when the foolish and feckless mayor showed up AN HOUR LATE for a little press conference on this new disaster. It’s all fine - that taxi driver to Brooklyn will live forever, peace be upon him! Oh, it’s totally sad that the bowling alley is now shut down but hey, stuff happens!
And the governor is now an expert on Ebola and spewing lies all day long.
The point is to shut people up. Everybody knew the screening wasn’t going to accomplish a damn thing, but the people were demanding it, so they got it. Kind of like the Bengazi report, just a pacifier for inconvenient mouths.
Yup. Kabuki theater at its finest.
A not oft published headline:
“Ebola Czar Says Population Growth Is Top Issue Facing the World”
So where is the outrage?
Its a government program that doesn’t work and will never stop sounds like everything the government has done for the last century.
That is why we had Ellis Island.
There is still no serious intent to actually CONTAIN the spread of the Ebola virus. This is so much worse than the disease that was the scourge of the Middle Ages, the so-called “Black Plague” that swept and decimated Europe, leaving whole districts depopulated for years. The Great Potato Blight famine of Ireland was another example of indirect effects of depopulation, when the greatest export of Ireland was the Irish themselves, fleeing hunger and starvation. The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 killed some 50 million before it was contained, not by sanitation efforts, but because the virus itself mutated to a less harmful version. And the mortality rate for that flu epidemic was FAR lower than the Ebola virus, which has something ranging from 50% to 90% mortality. There are immunes, of course, and there are persons who managed to generate sufficient antibodies to the disease to overcome the ravages of the illness.
So far, the cost for treating even ONE victim of the disease runs to hundreds of thousands of dollars, is there enough in funds available to treat EVERY victim so lavishly? Not to mention the exponential toll of the spread of the disease on humanity and resources.
How many other D w/o B and various charity doctors and nurses share the same attitude as Dr. Spencer that a simple plane ticket out of the death zone means home free, go out and play?
Time for a reality check, D w/o B?
There was no point. The temp testing was a panacea for the low informed.
As I understand it, You cannot transmit Obola on a strike, but one must be careful not to transmit the disease on a spare...Open frame, and we all die...
Every single person now infected in this country is infected because of this administration. Duncan only came because they let him. This idiotic, arrogant and non-caring doc in NYC was only able to wander around NYC like a tourist on holiday because they let him. How many similar carriers are here now, or will arrive in the next 2 months is anyone’s guess - but they will all be here/get here because they let them do so, and all of those infected because of those new carriers will be the administration’s fault.
Stopping this is simple: ISOLATION!
First, isolate the major center of the disease by forbidding native people to leave. If that literally means bombing runways, mining harbors and shooting people - well, I’m sincerely sorry, but the 99.99% of the world’s population that isn’t infected has rights, too. Since we have no cure or vaccine (or, if we do, both combined can’t hope to compete with a geometric progression), this is the only solution. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we don’t try to help those afflicted now - but we do so with airdrops of supplies and clear instructions in multiple languages and pictures. Help them, but stay safe.
Second, isolate EVERYONE coming out of the hotzone, and do so THERE. Set up single-wides like they did for the astronauts after they landed on the Moon, and make them stay there for 6 weeks. Don’t like it - tough shit! YOU chose to go there and knew the risks. Since catching Ebola was one, and that’s arguably worse than being confined for 6 weeks, too damned bad.
Third, anyone here with Ebola is isolated along with ANYONE that they might have come in contact with in the last 6 weeks. NOT just those with “bodily fluid contact” - EVERYONE.
The Black Death killed 1/3 - 1/2 of Europe’s population in the Middle Ages, and millions of others in Asia. We can’t allow that to happen now...because with the mutual dependence we have between and within nations for bare necessities, any pandemic will create huge problems related to production and delivery of food, water, medical supplies and care, electricity, etc. Those alone could kill 90% of a nation in 6 months, WITHOUT a pandemic virus trying its level best to run up the score.
Well, it can possibly be transmitted to a hard-working waiter who picks up a drink that has been slurped upon by an Ebola victim. Meanwhile, the owner loses huge amounts of money and who knows if anyone will come back to the place after it reopens. Sad. Where’s Guiliani when we need him?
“Anyone coming from an area with Ebola outbreaks should be held in an offshore facility for 45 days before being allowed into the country.”
No, hold them THERE (wherever “there” is) for 6 weeks/45 days. That applies no matter where they are traveling to - we don’t want seed colonies of Ebola being established in Europe, China, India, South America, etc., because that would complicate the situation beyond our ability to handle.
Think World War Z without the zombies.
21 days would still let through the 5% who are infected but show no symptoms at that point. Need 45 days.
“So where is the outrage?”
The Leftist media is being forced not to cover the real news because the Obola czar is giving them a deal that they can’t refuse.
Welcome to the mafia state. Go back and watch your games, peasant.
the point is to make it LOOK LIKE your doing something, when in fact you are doing nothing!
But that was when America had a freaking brain!
Might be 45 days necessary - might even be more.
There’s still too many unknowns with this, and I’m not believing the “experts”.
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