What about ruining this woman’s vacation—impacting the vacations of everyone on that ship—and needlessly causing a whole lot of expensive uproar with these overreactions?
Just because someone works in a lab where samples are processed does NOT mean they are a risk of infection! People routinely process samples in labs without getting infections—in fact, lab-acquired infections are rare enough to be newsworthy when they occur.
This is what happens when hysteria, not reason, takes over.
It's been coolly and calmly calculated. It is no different in any way from strip searching grandmothers at the airport while letting the sleeper terrorist through with a cursory glance. There are two problems, no concept of relative risk (or grasp of science for that matter) and political correctness. The latter is only going to get worse as Holder or Holder II threatens to sue local authorities for profiling Liberians.
I wouldn’t call it hysteria, but an over abundance of caution. I’d rather have the caution than an assumptive, cavalier attitude that could cost many, their lives.
It’s sad that her vacation was ruined, and so were the vacations of 4 thousand others, but those 4 thousand could have also been a vector for a horrible, uncontainable, plague.
I’m sure this makes for a demonstration of why ‘caution’ is an inconvenience to the travel industry, but until this thing burns out, if it ever does, I personally will be thankful that I’m not having to stand by and watch my loved ones, or yours, melt into a rotten puddle of infectious fluid.
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
I agree. Wholeheartedly.
However, there ‘is’ an ironic precedent and, unfortunately, demonstrates we have more to fear from either incompetents and/or progressives running the government than the bug itself.
The precedent? Well, the CDC lab scandals, of course.
Rare? Yes. But the dichotomy between how far they’ll go to assign literal blame upon anyone that comes in proximity to the patient or their samples vs. this disconnect of reality we now know as the “Free to Travel from Infected Areas” Federal Policy shows both a belligerence toward the public and a horrible loss of confidence that they can deal with this, or any other for that matter, biological pathogen. If ‘loss of confidence’ is a phrase that can be used seriously, as it conveniently makes the ‘crisis’ exponentially larger than it is.
In other words, along the lines of what I’ve stated prior, they continue to stoke this ‘manufactured-crisis’ by what appears at face value to be ‘incompetence’, but upon further scrutiny looks more like ‘induced panic’.