Posted on 10/18/2014 4:43:36 AM PDT by huldah1776
***snip*** In recent days, the number of people who have been asked to monitor themselves for symptoms has been steadily growing, especially among healthcare workers who were involved in the original treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died from Ebola on Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
As of Friday, a pool of about 1,000 people are being watched for symptoms, have been asked to monitor themselves or have been urged to check with a counselor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The group includes a handful of people who have been ordered into quarantine, a larger group that is being closely watched with temperatures taken at least daily and a much larger group of travelers who may haven flown on a Frontier Airlines jetliner used at some point by an Ebola patient traveling with a low-grade fever.
None of those being monitored, regardless of their group, has exhibited any Ebola symptoms.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
At first I did not think this was planned. Now I suspect that Duncan was planned and am absolutely convinced that the insane response by CDC is a planned response to an opportunity for terrorism. Nothing else makes sense... these people are not that stupid.
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.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
You should add— Period — “You don’t have anything to worry about. Period.”
Anything about rate of false negatives?
They should have used it anyway.
1,000 people under watch which no doubt will miraculously rise to 100,000 after the election. “Gee, where did they come from?”
Duncan’s hospital I meant.
All over the freakin country no less.
It is part of the political plan of polarization, America vs the World.
Frankly the traitors always cry about “World threats” like global warming, inherently saying America is a threat to the world, and that the world should instead be threatening America.
Frankly Obama is a threat to America but the spreading of this disease inside America makes it a threat to the world too.
This is no issue. In fact I and Others were soundly chastised the other day right here on FR for considering this all a serious threat.
Don’t worry! Be happy!
Seasonally Adjusted.
Only info is the cited “90 percent” rate of detecting EBOLA.
My vision for the United States has always been like the good neighbor that keeps such a nice house and yard that it inspires others to do the same. The good neighbor that helps if he can and leads but does not go and do and pay for things for others.
Obama’s mission is not to raise the standards in less prosperous places it is a zero sum game of robbing prosperity to raise up poverty. No new wealth or good is created.
There is a county in my home state that is largely populated by Mennonites. Much of the rest of the county is American Indian. The neighboring county has no Mennonites. Mennonites are industrious, neat, sober and pretty much stick to themselves. Through out both counties the contrast is stark. Almost every place in the Mennonite county is neat and clean or at least picked up. The other county of the same mixture of whites and indians is a bloody mess where most of the front yards could easily win the Jeff Foxworthy junkiest front porch competition.
Seriously. If you don’t have a fever you’re GOOD TO GO and infect everyone later.
What bloody stupidity.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/14/the-original-ebola-hunter.html
Dr. Breman 1976: An unusually lethal hemorrhagic fever was sweeping through the region. The virus—which caused fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash—resembled malaria, typhoid, Lassa fever, and influenza. Its mortality rate did not. “All the villages are infected,” the director warned Breman. “Virtually all those who have gotten it have died.” So far, the infection was confined to Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo), by chance a place Breman had been earlier in the year as a member of a WHO international team to certify Central Africa smallpox-free.
My father had typhoid when he was 13 and spent a year in a Tulsa hospital and a year at home in bed. I have the letters he wrote home to his mom in Sapulpa OK, asking for lots of chocolate bars. He grew up, was 6 ft 3 1/2 inches - over 200 lbs. But at age 13-14 it was touch and go....
To put the genie back in the bottle, the head of the executive branch has the authority to quarantine anyone. Also, there is the absolute favorite, marshall law. That is how this desert dwelling leader of the blind will get his genie back in the bottle and rule the majority of Americans with his iron pen. Lock em up and let em die. Who would know how or why?
I don’t really think it will happen, just having a low-blood sugar fit of loopiness. Enjoy!
This is so egregious, even the MSM isn’t defending Obama on it.
This is one means by which the true infection count will be delayed prior to election day.
From: Here:
"Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42 day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over."
21 days from Duncan's death will be October 29. 42 days will be November 19.
Let's hope we all have a Happy Thanksgiving. .
And like good little lemmings, the hospital staff decided to obey Der Fuhrer.
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