[BenLurkin]

Brad Paisley Carrie Underwood: Quarantine Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeDC3dgkdjM

[JimSEA]

The returning individual likely knows their risk level if they’re honest about it. I really don’t know why anyone would lie about something so critical to their family and friends.

[null and void]

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[EternalVigilance]

"The “low risk” individuals have been asked to “self-monitor,” which the IDPH defines as taking their temperatures twice a day and reporting their health status."

How comforting.

One of my best friends lives just a few blocks up the street from the Des Moines airport.

And we're only an hour and half away by car.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well, let me see how fast I can run to the limits of my knowledge of epidemiology...

1. Ebola has high morbidity in Africa because of the abysmally poor quality of their healthcare systems.

2. People who die of Ebola in Africa typically succumb to a heart attack, caused by electrolyte imbalances due to the horrific diarrhea that is part of the progression of the illness. The dehydration and electrolytic imbalance leads to irregular heart rhythms and cardiac arrest.

3. Because we have very good care infrastructure by comparison, we have been able to get the few cases into treatment quickly and do things like hydrate and maintain electrolytic levels. So, thus far the morbidity has been much lower in patients in the US. Well, except for the guy in Dallas.

4. We have devoted tremendous resources to the few cases that have been here in the US, and to those who contracted the disease in Africa and were brought to the US for treatment. Probably hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps millions per patient.

5. All this works in the US if the numbers are low. Even our healthcare system would be taxed if the numbers were in the 100’s or if a large number of cases occurred simultaneously in say, 40 cities across the US.

So, I'm wondering if the folks in Washington are thinking that with our porous borders, an inexpensive way to create terror and perhaps even economic chaos, would be to extract the virus from one of the victims in Africa, either dead or alive, and then infect radical terrorist carriers who then deploy to say 100 different cities in the US and proceed to figuratively “hug everyone they can” as they begin to be symptomatic and thus contagious.

Pretty nasty idea, but then again, so was 9/11. Anyone have confidence that such a scenario has been anticipated by DHS and CDC?