Disaster Declaration Planned for Ebola Fight

nbcdfw.com ^ | 10/16/2014 | Frank Heinz

[massmike]

Dallas County Commissioners will hold a special meeting Thursday to declare a disaster over "the potential for widespread or severe damage, injury, loss or threat of life resulting from the Ebola virus."

The declaration could help officials impose new travel restrictions on health care workers who may have cared for the first Dallas Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Dallas County Medical Director Dr. Christopher Perkins will sign a control order that will follow the minimum guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blocking those being monitored for Ebola symptoms from using public transportation, including buses and airliners.

It comes after revelations Wednesday that the third Dallas Ebola patient, Amber Vinson, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, returned from a trip to Ohio with a slight fever after caring for Duncan, who died at the hospital last week.

[re_nortex]

That anti-American cartoon is from the Sacramento Bee, a communist paper owned by the marxist McClatchy Company.

[DJlaysitup]

Are you going to shut down the highways, buses and trains too? Seriously? Just shoot the economy in the head and be done with it. The correct answer here is a travel ban on West Africa AND increased control at the border.

Yes...BUT...since the CDC has no enforcement authority...somebody has to do it. We can blame, blame, blame...but the reality is - certain agencies have only certain abilities (enforcement-wise)...and if we aren't going to enhance the Federal government's enforcement rights (over states)..then the State has to get it's ass in GEAR.

It may be so mixed up that there is no answer...we may just have to get lucky.

[re_nortex]

Texas proved that it is an INCOMPETENT State, red or not.

Texas leads the nation in job growth. Texas is wiping out baby killing factories. Texas has a tough voter ID law. Texas has no state income tax. Texas is a Right to Work state where unions are weak to the point of being irrelevant. Texas is pro-business and doesn't hamper free enterprise with burdensome regulations.

Those things are all indicators of extreme COMPETENCY and a respect for freedom, liberty and strong Christian (and Jewish) values.

[yorkiemom]

“Texas, first declaration of Martial Law? Red state. Seems fishy that it would be Texas.”

Not for everyone, just to contain the virus.

I see this as slapping the Obola administration in the face, directly contradiction their marching orders.

This would be great. Both for public health and to show that SOMEONE cares about Americans.

[BurningOak]

I can’t help but get some morbid entertainment from the mindless hysteria on these threads. Guilty pleasure.

[riri]

Just saw on twitter that two Solon, Ohio schools are closing because and employee was on one of the Frontier flights with the nurse.

[yorkiemom]

“The correct answer here is a travel ban on West Africa AND increased control at the border.”

That is needed, no doubt.

But now that the virus is here - thanks to that not happening in the first place, it needs to be contained as well.

[DJlaysitup]

This is not an indictment of the whole State of Texas...it’s a mistake by one hospital...a mistake that probably would have been made in Illinois or Indiana or North Carolina.

But it needs to be taken care of as soon as possible.

[Windflier]

Texas proved that it is an INCOMPETENT State, red or not.

Blame blue Dallas County government, not the red state of Texas. Every government agent at the forefront of this crisis is a Democrat stooge.

[WildHighlander57]

” but it’s a lot harder to infect multitudes from a car....”

But people stop at gas stations, hotels/motels, restaurants along the way.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Texas, first declaration of Martial Law?”

It sounds like it is the precursor to ML to me.

I’m surprised the flight attendants and/or pilots don’t call for a strike, or at least a ‘sick-out’.

[re_nortex]

And Barclay Berdan, the CEO of Texas Health Resources has contributed to the campaign of the DemonRAT Chet Edwards, who thankfully no longer represents the Texas 17th district. The fact that he gives money to a socialist shows that he’s simply not fit to put a bandaid on a paper cut, much less be an executive of a hospital corporation.

[Aria]

Well my point is that the worst situation of all is letting people who may or may not know they’re infected onto airplanes and spreading this all over the country.

There probably will be a big decrease in travel without anyone banning it anyway.

[digger48]

Dallas County voted for Obama with 60%

Just quarantine that one county since they voted for this type of disaster

[re_nortex]

Blame blue Dallas County government, not the red state of Texas. Every government agent at the forefront of this crisis is a Democrat stooge.

And it was likewise in 1963 with the botched handling in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. It was run like a circus and every last one of the "powers that be" at that time was a DemonRAT. The black eye that this region has now and then ("The City of Hate") was due to leftists -- and that, of course, includes Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. The current incarnation of those two vile individuals are Mike Rawlings, Clay Jenkins, John Wiley Price and the contributor to a DemonRAT campaign, the CEO of Texas Health Resources, Barclay Berdan, below:

[DJlaysitup]

Blame blue Dallas County government, not the red state of Texas. Every government agent at the forefront of this crisis is a Democrat stooge.

I like politics as much as the next guy but...I truly believe that if it were announced that there was a mega-speed meteor that came out of nowhere and would be an extinction level event on Saturday...killing all of us...there would be a very large crowd at the Whitehouse with signs blaming Obama and a larger crowd doing the same blaming Congress...on Friday.

What have we become?

[txhurl]

Put a set of industrial-scale rubber elbow-length gloves nailed to the grout outside your door and pour 1/4 bleach 3/4 water into each finger of them.

Do the same in your car, around the console.

You get out of your car for whatever, come out with bleached hands, and bleach ‘em again before entering your house.

Don’t leave without bleaching and don’t re-enter, either.

[lulu16]

I am glad you pointed what a great state Texas is. Otherwise this would sound like a board hijacked from The Huffington Post, which gleefully attacks Texas, because it is emblematic of what a republican state stands for.

[eyedigress]

A nation that will kill itself for the sake of loony political correctness. Find the most incompetent idiot to be in charge and celebrate the diversity.

Sit back and wait for the crazy train to run over you.