we could start by making it less EASY to come to THIS COUNTRY from the country with the RAGING, DEADLY, CONTAGIOUS, EPIDEMIC.
“An indiscriminate ban on travel would make it impossible for aid workers to reach the most widely affected areas, obviously deepening the medical and humanitarian crisis.”
THEY WILL NOT DROP THIS. There are airplanes designed to fly with 2 crewmembers and HUNDREDS OF TONS of cargo. THEY DON’T NEED PASSENGERS TO FLY CARGO! The crew can stay locked in the cockpit while others (probably US troops) unload it. This isn’t very hard.
Also, certain people would still be allowed to fly, but will be quarantined when they return. What our problem is the Open Borders policy that just won’t stop...and that is putting this country at serious risk of a massive outbreak.
Guardian - Spanish nurse . . . improvement
I came across this when I was googling for a better source for the Texas nurse's boyfriend. Email sent out by the CEO of the pharma company he works for. Nothing in the mainstream media yet.
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...
Canceling all non essential flights from the outbreak areas would be great.
If not that then:
Quarantine on an Island for 30 days before entering the USA works, as far as I am concerned.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The comments at the site are pretty interesting. Even the super libs who read and comment at the NY Times seem to be mostly in favor of a travel ban.
It is tremendously stupid that we haven’t done this, although it seems a miracle that we have had only one case slip through so far.
Notice their “better” method still has a nearly 30% false negative.
The excerpt begins to unveil an aspect of all this that it seems the”experts” at CDC have missed. Look at the man hours involved in sorting out the 57 cases they mention. I read that Duncan caused them to put 3,000 man hours into tracking contacts. The CDC claims that is what they do, why they are there. Fine. How many cases would it take before they just don’t have the resources? In other words, how many cases befor our defenses, such as they are, are saturated and overwhelmed? I suspect that those cases ARE ALREADY HERE. We still need to yank VISAS. And stop flights but when the folks who are going to get sick in the next month do so there may well be no way of tracking them all down.