Posted on 10/23/2014 6:02:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
In October of 1962, America worried whether an untried young president, John F. Kennedy, could keep us safe from nuclear-tipped missiles from nearby communist Cuba.
Today's October worries are more insidious: the Ebola virus, the macabre Islamic State, a tottering stock market, a bellicose Russia, and a crisis of confidence in our government.
Much of what the Obama administration and the Centers for Disease Control initially swore about the Ebola virus proved false. The virus really did infect Americans at home, despite assurances that there was "no significant risk." There always was a danger of infected West Africans entering the U.S. The CDC protocols did not protect nurses from infection by Ebola patients.
Banning all travel from West African countries where the virus is epidemic may not stop Ebola from spreading throughout the U.S. But the administration still cannot offer convincing reasons why we should not try just that. Instead, a purely medical decision seems hopelessly embedded in the administration's usual politically correct spin.
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
What about the Entro d68 virus? Infecting children all across the country and no one even mentions it,that is a freaking OUTRAGE!
“Much of what the Obama administration and the Centers for Disease Control initially swore about the Ebola virus proved false.”
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/welcome-to-oppositeville.html
This thing IS going to get worse, LOTS worse. Right now we are in a lull, having been lucky enough not to have any new Ebola vectors enter the country (or so we think right now). However, even W.H.O. says that there will be 10,000 new cases/week by mid-December. How many of those will try to get here? If 100 per week try, and we stop 99% of them (again, through sheer dumb luck - Duncan was asymptomatic and lied about his contacts, and so could anyone else), then we still have one new person per week coming in and infecting others. What happens if it gets loose in a city, say among the homeless or in an immigrants’ ghetto? Then you have 100 or more cases. It just takes one - just like with terrorism - and you can have a Class A disaster.
All because Assclown-in-Chief Obola refuses to stop allowing anyone from West Africa into the country.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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