Posted on 10/18/2014 9:18:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A total of 116 people are being monitored for Ebola symptoms in Ohio following the visit from a Dallas nurse who treated the first patient to die of the virus in the United States and later tested positive herself, health officials said Saturday.
None of those being monitored is sick, officials stressed.
Dr. Chris Braden, who is leading a CDC team in Ohio, said time is on their side as they wait for Ebola's 21-day incubation period to pass. He said he was impressed with northeast Ohio's level of preparedness but the threat that someone else infected with Ebola might show up in Ohio remains real.
"As long as this disease is burning hot in Africa, those sparks can fly," he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsandsentinel.com ...
We haven’t heard a peep about how she is supposedly doing..if she had those symptoms BEFORE leaving for Cleveland she is probably dead..no way, without any form of treatment could she have survived three days walking around with Ebola..either she’s dead or critical, like Duncan started
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One of the threads today had a report that she was stable.
Are we into the thousands to monitor yet?
All because of just one guy!
Imagine dealing with ten or fifty.
Sounds like they're getting ready to tell us she's not doing well. . though they say she is in stable condition.
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“As long as this disease is burning hot in Africa, those sparks can fly,” he said....
They can’t fly HERE unless they get on a plane..
No, it's guaranteed. It'll fly in from Africa, and the dance begins anew. It's just a matter of time. The 42 day cycle will not end.
I'm not. But still relieved.
I still haven’t heard anyone in the media ask if she was patted down by TSA agents at security and how many other passengers were groped with the same contaminated gloves.
All I could think was “oh, great, a real live Red Wedding”, GRR Martin style.
Nobody. The regime has instead decided to monitor 100's of people who are very unlikely to have ebola instead of the people who are much more likely to have ebola. The latter will be caught eventually as they vomit blood on the street but by doing that they will infect good samaritans and first responders (at the very least).
This situation is identical to harassing grandmothers in airports while people much more likely to be terrorists waltz right through.
you are exactly right. All according to the plan.
There is a study out there that says the entire North American Continent will be overloaded with 1000 ebola patients....meaning that the support needed to care for those 1000 patients will EXCEED the number of nurses, doctors, lab techs, security, decon, janitors, and other support personnel. When there are 1000 ebola patients hospitalized, wife and I start moving food to the bug out location and work from the family farm enclave in the Ozark MTNs.
I guess Cleveland or Akron is not in my travel plans anytime soon. Neither is Dallas.
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I always look at down-side risk, worst case scenario. I would think that could be someone found dead at an overcrowded indoor sports event, concert, shopping area at Christmas etc., and testing positive for Ebola. Assume that body had been there for awhile, but they don't know how long. Assume someone had stolen all ID.
That's not impossible. This monitoring concept would totally collapse, and panic could set in.
Will it happen? Probably not. I just wonder if the idiots in charge are thinking things through and realizing their scenario of letting potential victims into the US is increasing the possibility of something like that happening.
A scenario like that can produce enough actual ebola cases to overwhelm the hospitals in the area since 99% of the suspect cases will be flu. Then we will get the inevitable false positives where flu patients get isolated for no benefit. Also false negatives where ebola cases go untreated until they get acute themselves.
That's all entirely possible and doubtless there are some admin operatives licking their chops at the possibility of health care system chaos. Whether the chaos spreads to the supermarkets is another story. I personally don't think it will spread on vegetables from barely symptomatic people, but what I believe or the actual facts of the situation may not matter.
Who is monitoring the entry of infected people who come in at the rate of 150 per day on expedited visas? $19 an hour temps from a small disadvantaged business in San Antonio called Angels or something like that. They are paid $19 an hour but you can bet Angels are paid about three times that much.
No, it makes no sense so it must be a plan for intentional infection of America and to overburden the system and create chaos and terror. So far that plan seems to be working perfectly.
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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In the Logic courses I took way back when, one section was analytic problem solving. It was great to think of worst case scenarios and solutions. Sometimes the solution was how to prevent the occurrence....which would be an argument for keeping Ebola out of the US. I wonder if anyone in leadership even has that training any more.
Here in northeast OH, Kasich met with those in charge of the Cleveland response, and then came out with his calls for a travel ban. It makes me suspect that Cleveland's leadership is more capable than the DC crowd. The city is absolutely protective about keeping itself as a desirable destination for conventions, sporting events, museums, health care, etc.
I'm not thinking so much in terms of what would cause an Ebola outbreak as that would cause a justifiable disruptive response to what could happen, and the consequences of that.
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