Posted on 08/29/2014 8:26:35 AM PDT by Qiviut
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate campuses from the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
With the virus continuing to kill in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, the expected arrival of thousands of students from those countries has U.S. authorities on alert but cautioning against alarm.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued no specific recommendations for colleges, some state health departments, including in South Carolina and North Dakota, have spelled out for administrators what symptoms to look for and how to react.
Elsewhere, universities are drafting their own precautionary plans against the often-fatal hemorrhagic fever, which causes weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, internal bleeding and sometimes bleeding from the nose and ears.
U.S. universities count 9,728 active students from Nigeria, 204 from Liberia, 169 from Sierra Leone and 95 students from Guinea, according to the federal government.
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Why do we let the unwashed masses from 3rd world countries into the US?
*ping*
So that we will all become like them — that’s the whole idea since the creation of the UN.
Sitting and shitting together in dirty bathwater all in one tub with the rest of the world for the sake of equality, brotherhood and diveeeeeersity.
Racial purity for whitey is a dirty word, don’t you know?
No bitter offense over their “profiling” of these students?
But “profiling” is *always* wrong, don’t you know?
/dripping sarcasm
You have a good grasp of the agenda.
Why do we even have air travel from these countries to bring the students here? What airlines are flying them? How many passengers are infected on the flights and in the airports from this behavior?
No bitter offense over their “profiling” of these students?
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Somebody is probably working on a protest/lawsuit, or ‘whatever’ to this as we post.
“may be subject to extra health checks”
who’s got that job?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Yikes——a grandaughter just went off to college.
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Well, these colleges and unis better check the Health and Human Services directive against stimagtising certain group members just because they might carry a deadly contagious disease which has on known cure.
( No joke, I posted a copy on one of the earlier thrads.)
PC rules.
Most of the people who go to universities in the US from the third world aren't unwashed masses. They are the sons, and occasionally daughters of ministers, heads of state, and highly placed persons in those nations. They come here to learn medicine, engineering, science, and generally don't waste their time on grievance studies and such quibble.
I think the idea was that they would return home, infused with Western Civilization and using those precepts and newly acquired knowledge, improve conditions in their home countries and become a little more American in their outlook.
That was fine in the 50s, and even the 60s, but now, our Universities are such hotbeds of politically correct nonsense that the effects will either engender contempt, or push them toward Marxism.
Still, this is a group of people who are somebody in their home countries, and for whom the rules will often be bent or disregarded.
That mindset ("Don't you know who I am?") is dangerous when dealing with potential vectors of a deadly disease, and is proving itself so in Nigeria even now.
Just so long as the person next to you in the lecture hall doesn't sneeze, cough, rub his sweaty arm on you and you don't ask him to borrow a pencil or he passed you the class syllabus. Or if the person before you touched your seat, the door, the coke machine button, the toilet, the bathroom sink faucets and soap dispenser, or handled your food at the food court or he's your randomly assigned roomie or in the communal shower or there's an orgy at the frat house, and if you avoid the flying sweat in the athletic dept and the spit in band, then all will be fine.
What liberal turnip truck did you just fall off? When I took Jr. for a visit to UT Austin, there were booths set up with yelling and screeching middle easterners who were angry about something. Getting in people's faces, etc. We didn't stick around long enough to find out what their problem was. It appeared to be the same hatred I encountered from them in college decades before just more vocal.
Exactly. The CDC has done a good job of telling everybody it’s all going to be ok - not gonna happen here, don’t worry.
The people I met were known to party a little, but were more interested in getting an education than doing protests.
As for the current crop of Middle Easterners (different continent) that's a different bunch. In Austin? Seems like you were the ones next to the liberal turnip truck.
OTOH, the Nigerians were fine but they were mainly Christian. They showed up the same year so guess it was some government program. I don't recall any other foreign students.
The only Iranian I met made it out while the Shah was still in power, and loved the US and became a citizen—but then he was of Armenian descent and Christian also. The Nigerians I met were Methodists, dunno about the guy from Gabon. Most were in chemical engineering, because that was more versatile than just petroleum engineering, though they leaned heavily toward petroleum engineering, too. It was only a handful of people and certainly nothing to gauge entire populations by.
I will note one thing, and it was the main point I wanted to make. None of these guys were slugs. Their families were big fish in their respective ponds, so to speak, and a caveat for us all is that when daddy is the minister of such-and-such, they have enough juice to get what they want within their countries, and even in the region.
I suspect the way Sawyer got on the plane to Lagos was the basic “Do you know who I am?” ploy, and the important people in the region play by their own rules, not the ones for everyone else (sound familiar?)
Even now, someone’s little someones may well be invoking their version of ‘executive privilege’ to go where they want, sick or not.
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