Posted on 11/15/2014 12:27:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Can’t believe I’m agreeing with Clown Car Joe on this one.
PING!
The US needs an administration and responsible agencies that won’t BS us and fear doing anything substantive that will make the “One” look bad. That’s what we need.
Why? Is there something our government hasn’t told us?
So you want to impeach obama
The very antithesis of epidemiological containment.
Once these facilities are established, they’ll stock them with frehsly flown in new patients from west Africa
How bout we make Liberia the 51st state, build a few hospitals over there, and then keep the patients OVER THERE.
Nah...just buy a shotgun.
What a dolt. If Ebola ever took hold you’d need a lot more than one hospital in every State that could handle it.
Of course one in each State would be a good start, but he seems clueless about how quickly that one hospital could get overrun in a real crisis (not to mention all the equipment and personnel).
I disagree. When small states, such as Rhode Island and New Hampshire, are just an hours drive to Boston there is no need to have all 3 states with fully equipped and staffed Ebola Centers.
NO! We need a policy to quarantine every visitor from 3 countries in W Africa for 21 days. No need to spend tax payer dollars building elaborate Ebola treatment outfits. Those are expensive because of the inordinate amount of precautions needed.
Yes, we’ll need these facilities because the assclown in the white hut brought the disease here.
Like other Dem talking points, it sounds good until you get the bill. If government wants to run healthcare, imagine all of those healthcare employees voting like public school teachers, and sending their political donations to the same party...
Stupidest Vice-President ever. And that includes some real doozies.
Nothing new here. ALL democrats are generous in spending tax payer’s money. Yet they are very stingy with their own money. Biden is one of he stingiest in giving charitable donations.
This needs to go way beyond just Ebola.
We have learned that after decades of exercises and billions of dollars and countless positive articles, that we weren’t ready for a bio attack at all, or even a pandemic resulting from a national catastrophe like disease waves resulting from an EMP or nuclear attack, or nature.
America needs a reawakening of our civil defense readiness and this is just one step in that direction, we need this and an emergency plan where we can expand quickly if needed, first the instant ability to treat dozens of victims of a national multiple point bioterrorist attack, and then a concrete plan and permanent preparations to expand to 100s or 1000s of beds fairly rapidly as is practical within reasonable budget concerns.
The Guard and the Reserves could be better prepared, and civilian hospitals could maintain a portion of staff that receives annual or biannual training, but all this needs to be maintained long after this story disappears, it needs to become institutionalized, just as most of us already thought it was.
Most of us thought we were prepared for this stuff and could quickly react and contain it, but now we cringe at the thought of the chaos that just a dozen infected terrorists could have caused if they had arrived in a dozen cities just like that one Liberian did, that single patient became a threat way out of proportion of what should have been.
"Virtually any hospital in the country that can do isolation can do isolation for Ebola."
-- Thomas Friedan, CDC director in sworn testimony before Congress, early October 2014.
Even worse, it is growing the “government-employment sector” - another built-in automatic Dem constituency, funded by taxpayers to funnel private-sector income to the Democrats.
Actually, no we don’t. We need pre-positioned pre-fab DISPOSABLE treatment units. I’d build them out of CONEX containers. Sealable, durable, and when you’re done with a patient, pull out the inside equipment and just burn it. Medical equipment and supplies on the outside, a plastic liner and bed on the inside. Sensors, IV lines, etc, run through connections on the wall.
Crank ‘em out and stockpile them.
Because AFTER you use a facility for an Ebola Patient, you’re talking about nearly doubling the treatment cost in re-habbing and re-sterilizing the ward to meet CDC standards and protocols. Use American Manufacturing instead. . .
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