Posted on 10/14/2014 5:12:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Obama administration has begun to acknowledge that it was unprepared for the potential emergence of Ebola in the US after a Texas nurse contracted the disease. After weeks of issuing statements that they would have no problem in containing any cases that might emerge, the CDC said that it would “rethink” its approach after the first case resulted in failure. They also acknowledged the very real possibility that others have already been infected in Texas:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday said it is starting to “rethink” its Ebola strategy after the first-ever US transmission of the virus put a “relatively large” number of healthcare workers at risk.“We’re concerned, and unfortunately would not be surprised if we did see additional [Ebola] cases in healthcare workers who also provided care to the index patient,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said.
A nurse at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas was diagnosed with Ebola over the weekend, raising questions about the procedures that were followed when treating Thomas Eric Duncan.
The nurse’s infection “doesn’t change the fact that its possible to take care of Ebola safely, but it does change, substantially, how we approach it,” Frieden said.
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They are not rethinking anything, except how to tell bigger lies the next time.
Where are you located?
And this begs the question, what happens when 1 or 2% of a city have died: who will go to work? People will self-quarantine at home and the economy will crash. And what about the police, fire fighters, EMTs, and hospital crews? What about the crews down at your local power plant, or food distribution center? Think they will all become Mother Teresas, martyring alongside the lepers for the greater good? Think they will not stay home? But even in the resulting economic crash, unfairness will be ferreted out. Is it fair that some people have prepared, and have several months-worth of food on hand? Is that fair, when the supermarkets were all looted in the general panic, and there have been no more food deliveries, and the EBT system is not functioning? Is it fair that some, who have prepared, will be able to simply ride out the Ebola pandemic?"
A scary and possible look into our future.
Remember the new tv series, The Last Ship, when the Captain went ashore in Baltimore and later found out that the treatment centers were really death camps for those infected with the killer virus in the plot?
Democrat party in an election year is finally giving it to Obama and the CDC because soccer moms are starting to see how dems have endangered their kids.
After hering yesterday that the Texas patient was put on dialysis, I wondered.......... where are the Obamacare death panels. If there was ever a case crying for one, certainly that was it.
They purposely trashed a dialysis machine, sacrificed it for what?
Now, here is a picture of the Hazmats removing a guy from a plane in the Dominican Republic
Which country is taking the threat more seriously ?Yes, I think the CDC should rethink their methods.
Buy lots of bleach, diesel, and mark your perimeter with a 50-100 yard ‘dead line’ if all hell breaks loose. And keep spare mags handy.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
For the "challenged" people serving int he 0bam,a regime:
Step One - BAN ALL FLIGHTS FROM THE EBOLA COUNTRIES;
“Nothing happens unexpectedly, everything has an indication,
we just have to observe the connections.”
This above quote is at the top of the page on the radio emergency and disaster alert website.
Thanks for the reminder!
Whew!! Just in time. The election will have to be “postponed” so no one catches Ebola at the polling places.
www.senate.gov
www.house.gov
OK, Freepers, time for action.
It’s after 9:00 am in DC.
Call your reps in DC and tell them the flights from West Africa through any hub HAVE TO STOP!
The place to fight this disease is at its source, not here.
The “screening” process at our airports is a joke and ineffective. 150 people a day are coming here from West Africa—that is 4500 a month. Some will show a fever and yet may be carrying the virus.
Our healthcare system will shutdown if this continues.
We already have cases in Kansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Texas.
The first order of business of a government is to protect their citizens. And this government is failing to do so.
Make the calls.
The family you save may be your own.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...
Note: Inside information. While some have suggested that the CDC is oblivious to indirect contamination, i.e. touching a surface contaminated by a patient vs. actually touching the patient, this is not true. The patient that died in Texas was using various medical equipment. The CDC proactively called the medical equipment companies involved to ensure that proper protocols were followed in decontamination.
In the book, they're in central Florida.
Level 4 containment which involves negative pressure rooms. This ain't gonna happen so just like in west Africa the medical people are going to die first. And then it's on to everyone else.
What happens if you have an insane psychopathic narcissistic leader?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War
The Paraguayan War (Spanish: Guerra del Paraguay; Portuguese: Guerra do Paraguai), also known as the War of the Triple Alliance and in Paraguay as the “Great War” was an international military conflict in South America fought from 1864 to 1870 between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. It caused approximately 400,000 deaths, one of the highest ratios of fatalities to combatants of any war in South America in modern history. It particularly devastated Paraguay, which suffered catastrophic losses in population and was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil.
There are several theories regarding the origins of the war. The traditional view emphasizes the aggressive policy of Paraguayan president Francisco Solano López towards gaining control in the Platine basin. Conversely, popular belief in Paraguay, and Argentine revisionism since the 1960s, blames the influence of the British Empire (though the academic consensus shows little evidence for this theory).[3] The war has also been attributed to the after-effects of colonialism in South America; the struggle for physical power among neighboring nations over the strategic Río de la Plata region; Brazilian and Argentine meddling in internal Uruguayan politics; Solano López’s efforts to help allies in Uruguay (previously defeated by Brazilians), as well as Solano López’s presumed expansionist ambitions.[4] Paraguay had recurring boundary disputes and tariff issues with Argentina and Brazil for many years; its aid to allies in Uruguay in the period before the war worsened its relations with those countries.
The war began in late 1864 with combat operations between Brazil and Paraguay. From 1865 onwards, Argentina and Uruguay entered, and it became the “War of the Triple Alliance.”
The outcome of the war was the utter defeat of Paraguay. After its defeat in conventional warfare, Paraguay conducted a drawn-out guerrilla-style resistance, resulting in the destruction of the Paraguayan military and much of the civilian population. The guerrilla war lasted until López was killed by Brazilian forces on 1 March 1870. Estimates of total Paraguayan losses range from 300,000 to 1,200,000. It took decades for Paraguay to recover from the chaos and demographic imbalance.
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