Posted on 10/27/2014 1:24:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Despite President Barack Obama's appointment of an "Ebola czar" to oversee and coordinate the U.S. response to the deadly outbreak, some politicians and even an Army general are going against White House guidance, submitting people to the kinds of quarantines that scientists warn could make containing the epidemic more difficult.
Obama said any measures involving health care workers "should be crafted so as not to unnecessarily discourage those workers from serving." U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, now in West Africa, said any returning workers should be "treated like conquering heroes and not stigmatized for the tremendous work that they have done."
Instead, a nurse who volunteered in Africa with Doctors Without Borders was forced to spend her weekend in a tent in New Jersey, despite having no symptoms other than a slightly elevated temperature she blamed on "inhumane" treatment at Newark International Airport. And now in Italy, a U.S. Army commander said he and his troops returning from Liberia will remain in isolation for 21 days.
Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams told The Associated Press on Monday that the decision to isolate returning troops was taken to ensure their family members' comfort, even though he none of them are showing symptoms, and he does not believe any soldier under his command is at risk of infection.
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How does one contract Ebola from their neck? Isn’t that the excuse we have been given, that these two nurses in Dallas got it because their neck was exposed? But then the Islamic caliphate posing as our POTUS administration said it can only be contracted through bodily fluids, so what does this mean? That these nurses picked up Duncans vomit and rubbed it on an open wound on their neck?
Cømrades - break out your RAGE !
The very NERVE of these serfs ! !
This counter-revolutionary rabble must be quashed !
The Maximum Mulatto must be OBEYED ! !
Sieg f'n Heil, baby !
This one nurse - she makes the rest of the organization look very bad.
It feels like there is political manipulation going on here, in order to nail Governor Christie, when he is trying to protect the lives of citizens from a highly communicable fatal disease.
If the nurse in question wanted to be constructive, she could advise the NJ Governor on how to set up appropriate facilities instead of filing a frigging law suit and crying about a decision SHE originally made - going to West Africa.
I would BEG to be quarantined if I thought there was the remotest chance that I might pass on a deadly disease to other people, and I’ll bet everybody reading this would do the same.
We quarantined TB patients in the days when there was no cure, and we nearly eradicated that disease in the US until we stopped assaying the health of would-be immigrants.
Sure would be lot of people alive today if the first AIDS carriers had been turned away from our country or quarantined indefinitely. Cruel? Not if you were a hemophiliac. Not if you lost a large volume of blood in a accident or as a result of a surgical procedure. Not if you needed blood for any reason.
Doctors Without Borders? Two kinds: sacrificial (can’t say enough good about them) and showboats.
RE: If I visit Guatemala and want to bring back a stray dog, it has to spend six weeks in isolation quarantine in order to prevent any diseases from entering the US.
DOGS DON’T SUE.
I ran into an old alumni friend of mine, a surgeon. I respect his medical opinion. He says quarantining makes good sense. As for Ebola being airborne, he says, "Just wait until flu season." If someone gets the flu, or even a cold, who also gets ebola, it's effectively airborne, regardless of the exact CDC/biowarfare definition. Sure, it's not airborne like weaponized nanoparticles of anthrax, or smallpox, but it's airborne "enough."
Yup. “Science tells us”. Could be nuclear physics, could be microbiology, could be organic chemistry, it’s all “science”, and it TALKS!
However, my dog came from Mexico in 1999. She's been getting her revenge for her detention ever since.
I never understood that scene. Never.
We have an Ebola czar? Has anyone seen him since the day he was appointed?
There.
Fixed it.
So the govt. is saying that if I’m a cattle rancher, I shouldn’t keep my cattle in a pen because that makes it harder to keep them together and control them, one might get out, etc. However, if I remove the fences, I have a much better chance of keeping them together and intact.
Wow, I guess common sense has been wrong all these years. Who knew?
I am sick and tired of hearing people throw around “science” as means of cutting off discussion or debate. These people have no awareness of just how stupid it makes them sound. I swear they sound like extras from idiocracy. “uhh....I science....do you science?” “Yeah....I science too...” “ Uhh....good...you smart too...you can talk to me.”
Or they are simply overconfident despite the levels of uncertainty.
Wow, and that makes perfect sense. Flu or cold on top of Øbola and it is effectively weaponized.
This guy is a servile ignoramus. Quarantine is good science.
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