Coast Guard steps up Ebola screening at Texas ports

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard has stepped up screening of crews arriving in Texas from West Africa for possible Ebola symptoms.

The new measures are for any vessel that has visited West Africa within its last five ports of call. They also require that any crew member with symptoms of Ebola be quarantined.

In Houston, one of the world’s busiest ports, some dockworkers say they’re fearful. But no Ebola cases have been found yet, and Coast Guard officials say there’s little need to panic.

“Ships from other countries, we want to be aware of where they’ve been,” said Coast Guard spokesman Andy Kendrick. “In this case obviously with the Ebola situation, that’s something that we would want to be aware of if there was any potential threat.”

The Coast Guard first issued the new requirements in August, when more than 1,000 people had already died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Few vessels have qualified for the additional screening so far — 16 in September, none so far in October....

...The port authorities of Houston and Galveston have not instituted any Ebola-related safety measures on their own, since functions like security and screening at the ports are already left to agencies such as the Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Kendrick said that the new screening requirements don’t require much more information than the Coast Guard already collects from foreign vessels. They submit documentation about crew members’ health in advance of their arrival.

But with crew members arriving from all over the world, the people who are at the docks every day appreciate the extra layer of security that the new screening requirements allow....

HIV and EBOLA: How Political Correctness Will Get You Killed!
The ongoing – and expanding –Ebola situation and how it’s being handled (or, more accurately, NOT being handled) has a parallel with the HIV panic of a number of years ago.
It may ALSO be another manifestation of the schizophrenic nature of the hard leftists who unfortunately sit at the levers of power in this country and whose double-mindedness should now be clear to all but the dullest among us.
Allow me to explain.
A San Francisco (where else?) based and HIV infected “leader”of the homosexual community began a serious campaign encouraging fellow HIV carriers to attempt to bypass or defeat the donor screening process and actively donate into the national blood supply. When pressed as to his justification for jeopardizing the entire nation, he declared that if HIV spread out into the “straight” community, it would almost certainly catalyze and accelerate the search for a vaccine.
Am I the only “conspiracy buff” to see the similarities between that and what’s going on today vis-a-vis Ebola?
I hadn’t thought about this angle until I heard Rush recently ranting about some author who’d written that because Liberia was founded by former slaves who returned to Africa, it was our unfortunate institution of slavery that is directly responsible for Ebola in the western nations of Africa. (Please note that I stop FAR short of the recent utterances of Calypso Louie Farrakan who claims that Ebola was created by evil white men to kill blacks!)
But I digress. That reasoning that America is responsible for Ebola – if it can be called “reasoning” – holds that it is America’s place to come to their rescue with a “cure”. And how better to “catalyze and accelerate” that process than to INFECT as many native born Americans HERE with the disease as possible?
Now here’s where the schizophrenia comes into the picture:
There is a growing group of folks who believe that the earth cannot support the current population approaching 7.3 billion. The bulk of them are in the same leftist camp as those now directing the present halfhearted “effort” against Ebola. Many of them are one and the SAME people directing the Ebola thing! The most radical of them embrace the words of a speaker at an early green movement/save-the-earth rally in California. Odd coincidence that, aye? He declared that “Man is the ultimate DISEASE of nature.” He got a standing O for that line!
From that meeting and others still being conducted, the greenies now believe that the 7.3 billion MUST be reduced to around 1 billion or less. And which members of which nations, ethnic groups or races are “eliminated” is irrelevant – so long as THEY are excluded!
Scriptures informs us that “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” The writer must have known a fair number of the leftists of his day.
Back to my question.
If, on one hand, the leftists are sincere in their effort to SAVE THE EARTH from overpopulation, why would they attempt to save the victims of Ebola and allow them to come here?
Could it be that allowing them to come here with the disease (and sending 3,000 potential military carriers THERE to bring it back with them) while portraying these actions to the noinfo masses as the compassionate thing to do is part of the same scheme attempted earlier by the HIV crowd?
I suggest that we prepare ourselves for the spread of the this 60% to 90% fatal disease among the population of this nation. (This may have been the reason for the Homeland Security “drills” about some “zombie apocalypse”.) This IS, after all, the same America that is hated by Obama and the One World leftists now in control here as the source of every evil committed in the rest of the world and for which evils it must be properly punished?
Do I really think these miscreants – living in their sanitized and safe gated “compounds” — would do that?
After witnessing 6 years of this gang’s criminal behavior, I absolutely think that!

I have the perfect vaccination for the Ebola virus which is trying to come in via our waterways: it is a small copper implant tha is injected via a brass-cased syringe. The syringe is optimized to vaccinate as many people as possible in the shortest time possible, and it comes in both semi- and fully-automatic injector models. The diameter of the implant is approximately 12.7mm. This can be delivered from some distance by Coast Guard crews with minimal training, thereby sparing highly trained medical personnel.

Another version of the vaccine, using a 30mm diameter implant, can be delivered over longer distances by Air Force personnel with a bit more training. Being somewhat larger, this implant is more effective in keeping Ebola out of the country.

Warning, both implants may cause some pain and bleeding, but the pain is only temporary and it definitely cures the patient of Ebola.

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