Posted on 08/02/2014 12:16:55 PM PDT by chessplayer
Dr. Brantly arrive in the US today and is heading to Emory University in Atlanta. With NO police escort–
Wow!! These cars have No Idea the Ebola infected US doctor is in the ambulance next to them at stoplight. Not so safe pic.twitter.com/6fO99RMjZz
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) August 2, 2014
Dr. Brantly WALKED Into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta—
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Thanks for not pinging me, but what I said is that an Ebola researcher coming home to be treated at the Ebola isolation unit in an American hospital, is not only the right thing to do as far as treating American doctors who get sick, but it is the best possible situation for us to learn and get hands on experience, rather than our first case being discovered in some small town immigrant flop house in Tucson, or somewhere.
Why you think this doctor is the key to our destruction, the fatal crack in the perfect wall, is a mystery.
“an Ebola researcher coming home”
He is NOT an ebola researcher
Having him here isn’t such a great idea either. What bothers me is the doctor was taking precautions and still got sick.
Well, obviously he didn’t take universal precautions to prevent his infection...so how can we be sanguine in his ability to not spread the disease?
Yes, that is true, our direct ancestors all did survive, well long enough to pass on their genes.
“I think we can trust he is going to act responsibly.”
No we can’t. The disease causes irrational behavior. There are plenty of examples from recent events.
As a medical doctor treating Ebola, I think he has the expertise to lend to his doctors and fellow Ebola workers here as they treat him in the hospital for the very disease that they are all working on.
I don’t know where he would rank among Ebola experts and researchers of various types and levels and commitment, but it seems like he would be in there somewhere.
In almost 40 years, Ebola has killed under 2000 people, while in 33 years Aids has killed 36 million people and killed 1.6 MILLION in 2012.
It is a little early to be so panicky that we can’t allow a Ebola infected American doctor to be treated here at home.
It is too early to be screaming in the streets and refusing medical treatment to our doctors that work on treating it overseas.
Beg to differ. Scroll down to 2009-2010: http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/
So, the real patient zero, was already in the United States. Down border entranced, with the “kids”, and their dispersal anonymously- to basically anonymous towns, was an “illusion.” Well done!
I hope you’re right!
A classic media created crisis in order to gin up viewership..........
I'm surprised they haven't thrown in "global pandemic" just to increase the angst........LOL!
My advice to everyone is to stay home, keep your doors locked and for heavens sake, don't drive anywhere until this nation has been given the all clear signal.
That should cut down on the traffic and make my driving a little easier............
“Much less over sharp rocks while wearing a level 4 suit...”
I totally agree with the sharp rock observation. WTH?
Mistakes are bound to happen. Fluids will be tracked around.
“in order to gin up viewership”
hence the reason for picking Atlanta instead of a remote location. They have got all - dense population, busy airport,CNN, Sanjay, Andi, Josh, Walking Dead, Georgia guidestones.
Forget about CDC, they closed their lab 3 weeks ago.
Acknowledging the infectious nature of the disease, the fact that the man is even WALKING is surprising. Has he had exposure, but not the disease just yet? For some reason, I thought he was already very sick.
Despite how the authorities decided to carry this out, I hope and pray the best for this doc.
“This virus, while deadly, can be controlled easily, just like any other when outside the human or animal host so there is no reason to fear from the decontamination procedures they are employing, just because it is ebola.”
Not hardly. Medical personnel working with known Ebola cases are close to 1 in 10 of the outbreak cases. Over 100 health care workers infected in an outbreak that “only” has killed less than 800 total.
That screams that introducing active cases into an area with no Ebola runs a good chance (far from zero) of escaping the medical facility. It is a sure bet they will not be quarantining the medical staff, ambulance staff, and air ambulance staff for 30 days.
This is a combination Emory self promotion combined with a political op run by the State Department to try to find something to prop up 0bama.
we’ll see how it all plays out - if this doctor is as critically ill as we were told, why is he walking under his own power out of the ambulance? But, as you say, he is in a very good place to get the care he needs. Hope his family is okay as they were with him up until a few days before he got sick. BTW, you have heard of Typhoid Mary, right? One person can make for a lot of fatalities, but of course this is different so not to worry.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-doctor-ebola-atlanta-treatment-175504863.html
I agree. The mixed messages are indeed confusing. I do not like the feeling that we are not getting the full story.
Know that the CDC lies. It played with Aids and Hiv stats, it plays with racial stats, and during flu epidemics it stopped reporting the weekly locations and increases when it didn’t suit the current administration to have those stats out there.
I disagree.
Preventing Ebola from getting out of the hospital environment will be no more difficult, in fact easier than preventing hantavirus or similar deadly bugs...
Transmission is not that easy when you are aware of it. Infected NGO aids were likely not aware when they contracted it, at least most of them. The others likely got it from bunking with the infected. (they use dormitory type housing)
The key here is awareness.
After that it is easier to avoid contracting then the common flu virus.
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