Posted on 10/16/2014 5:41:06 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Dozens of health care workers who had contact with the man who died of Ebola in Dallas were asked Thursday to sign legal documents in which they agreed to stay home, as authorities across the nation ramped up efforts to limit the virus' spread.
The documents ask the 75 health care workers who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan to agree not to go to public places or use mass transit, according to Judge Clay Jenkins, top administrator for Dallas County. The agreements are binding legal documents that can be enforced with a variety of remedies, Jenkins said, though he repeatedly declined to elaborate about specific punishments when asked by reporters and expressed confidence that everyone would comply.
"From 21 days after their last exposure, we are agreeing that they are not going to go on any form of public conveyance - any sort of public transportation," Jenkins said. "We are agreeing that they won't go where people congregate - public spaces - and we are agreeing that they will self-monitor and allow us to monitor them twice a day."
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I've been saying this for a few weeks now. Sent it to the talking heads, but no one picked up on it. I'm glad Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is saying the same thing. Is this who you saw or is there someone else who is asking for quarantine before they can come into our country?
Lol... And seriously, they need to keelhaul here for breaking quarantine!
I agree, having read a book about Ebola a few years ago, either they are really incompetent or just plain lying to us.
Sorry. Appently not everyone understands my witty comments
Judge Clay Jenkins still doesn’t have Ebola, and neither do Thomas Duncan’s family members.
and we know this because ___________________ . ?
The Dallas Morning News endorses Clay Jenkins for re-election:
“Perhaps most disturbing were Natinsky’s comments regarding our community’s Ebola crisis. He questioned established science about transmission of the disease and seemed to suggest a course of action that could lead to community panic.
All things considered, Jenkins is the superior choice.”
Following on my other comment to you, I did see the conundrum you point out. Take it as a discussion item.
No it isn't.
The first Ebola-infected patient that enters the isolation camp will infect most of the other people there.
Quarantine centers will become death camps in short order. Trenches and crematoriums will be the exit for most of the people in the camps. I think we have seen this movie before.
The main difference is that the guards will soon get sick and desert their posts.
An "Agreement" under duress is not a valid contract anywhere.
That was my point in my post. The IDEA may be good, but people who had contact but weren’t infected would be infected by those who would break with Ebola.
“I remember they had stories of people (not themselves) who were in homes with signs on their door warning of illness.”
Polio
Contracts without a quid pro quo are also invalid. In the vernacular, “consideration.”
We'd really like to believe you, but...
... and every few days, a new patient 0 flies in on an Obama visa, and the 21 day game starts all over again ...
Won’t end until our republic is destroyed.
I was under a “voluntary quarantine” in TX for seven months after contracting TB. My employer discharged me and after going through what savings I had, eventually lost my apartment, car, credit rating and everything else. So now I’m in a homeless shelter picking up the pieces.
Won’t end until our republic is destroyed.
Exactly.
We will see the continued repercussions of patient “0”. The 1:2 ratio might climb. The vectors have not been contained. The costs are rising. The resources dedicated to containment are immense. The disruptions of daily life for many in America ripple through the republic, mostly peripherally at this time.
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