Posted on 10/17/2014 3:04:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Hospital workers who treated the Ebola patient who died at a Texas hospital are being asked to stay away from any public space for 21 days.
The Texas Department of State Health Services has asked the approximately 70 health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who entered the room of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan to stay home while they are being monitored during the 21-day Ebola incubation period.
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Butt...butt...butt...I thought we couldn’t catch Ebola in America.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
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Why are they doing this, if Ebola is not spread through casual contact??? There are so many contradictory unclear statements about this whole issue.
We have been told repeatedly that you can only get Ebola if someone pukes or poops on you, so how come these workers are being told to stay out of public places..and why is the CDC trying to contact 800 passengers who were flying on the plane that Amber Vinson was on..could it be..that the CDC are a bunch of liars and that Ebola is easier to get than they get on..my spidey senses tell me YES
It might not be through casual contact, but they want their workers to be free and clear and preferably self-quarantine themselves.
I guess it is being done because of the precedent that was set when one of the nurses decided it was o.k. to fly with a low grade fever. And the CDC said okey-dokey.
” Texas Health Care Workers Who Treated Ebola Patient Told to Stay Out of Public Place”
But we cant restrict travel from W. Africa?
But what about their family members. Is it ok for them to go to public spaces?
....but they flights from west Africa are still coming in.
What is the point of a quarantine of people here if we are still shipping them in??????
Wait until the thanksgiving Rush.
Don't we soon run out of medical people if everyone who has ever been near an infected patient is quarantined at home?
No. It is apparently too offensive to deny entry to 4,500 from thw West Africa into the USA every month.
We’ll run out sooner than that.
If you’re a nurse, and an Ebola patient comes into your hospital, would you take care of them if you know that you’ll be on a watch list with govt agents showing up at your door asking you to sign a “voluntary” self-quarantine order?
No.
You’re going to run out of nurses sooner than when there all on quarantine.
You’re going to run out of nurses when you run out of willing volunteers.
Even now, Texas Health Presby can’t staff their hospital.
Blue Flu.
The bigger and far more likely threat of Ebola isn’t 20K US cases. It’s what happens to the infrastructure when there’s 20 cases and EVERYBODY has Ebola-type symptoms...or, if you work in health care, a Blue Flu.
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