Posted on 10/27/2014 10:01:43 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Some poll workers in Dallas have decided to sit out Election Day 2014 citing worries over Ebola, according to the Dallas County Elections Administrator.
Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole told C&E that some poll workers “have decided they are not going to work the elections,” and the Dallas County Elections Department has also received numerous calls from voters concerned about heading to the polls.
“We don’t have a cure for this, but we are going to provide health kits with sanitizer and we will provide gloves—the only things we can provide in our traditional health kit we give to workers,” says Pippins-Poole.
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., was treated at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Two of the nurses who cared for Duncan—Nina Pham and Amber Vinson—also contracted the virus. Duncan died earlier this month. Both Pham and Vinson have recovered.
Pippins-Poole says the volume of concerned calls has dissipated and that she doesn’t anticipate any others deciding to not work the polls on Election Day. Health officials emphasize that the risk of exposure to the virus in public settings is exceedingly low.
Blame ebola? Come on Toni, we all know that your boss is full of crap and to work for you there may be the possibility of contracting Wiley-itis.
Good when the idea that you can get Ebola from voting gets around.... well you know.
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...
Nothing to do with their inability to fiddle the vote totals in the age of Voter ID?
Don’t know why it would be more worrisome than any other place where people congregate in Dallas.
Supermarkets, gas stations, toll booths, Banks, ATM...on and on, very thin line between too soon and too late, in such a circumstance.
Actually... requiring voter ID is probably the most effective method of ensuring Public Health there is... better than anything 0bola and the CDC has come up with.
Send word out - no Democrats should come to the polls...
I suppose the risk is higher in areas with large numbers of illegal alien voters.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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