Posted on 10/07/2014 7:02:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604
On Monday on HLN, CNN medical reporter Elizabeth Cohen said she was aghast at the lax screening procedures at airports for passengers who might have been exposed to Ebola. She said that even after she told agents she was coming back from Liberia and had been covering the Ebola epidemic, the screening agents did not seem to care and could not even tell her what symptoms were Ebola warning signs.
"I expected that they were going to take my temperature, they would ask me lots of questions, but they didn’t," Cohen said on HLN on Monday. "I said, 'I'm a journalist. I’ve come back from Liberia. I was covering Ebola.' And the gentleman who was helping me--the officer--he started to hand my passport back and say, 'welcome home.'"
Cohen told host Robin Meade that the screening agent then said, "oh wait a second, I got an email about passengers like you, hold on a second." According to Cohen, "he went and conferred with someone and he didn’t know, and they conferred with someone else and" he ultimately said, "you need to watch yourself for signs of Ebola."
Cohen said, "and I said, 'well what am I watching for?' and he couldn’t tell me."
On Sunday's Meet the Press, Andrea Mitchell said the Obama administration believes it can screen about "75% of the people coming in... at four main airports [JFK, Dulles, O'Hare, Newark]." She also said "you cannot trust" West Africans to honestly answer the Ebola questionnaires before boarding flights to America as more officials have called on the Obama administration to institute an Ebola travel ban.
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Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
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...
Hah, here I always thought they were Amish.
There’s money to be made on them ebolans. Money ... Am still trying to find the humor and sarcasm.
IIRC, Dogbert made money off of them...
IIRC, Dogbert made money off of them...
For an Ebola plague in America: natural elimination of the Low Information Voter.
Possibly!
If you are white, middle-class, and not a fellow traveler, Obama ultimately wants you dead or enslaved, so he can divide up your assets among his Western Civilization-hating supporters.
This is a very, very hard concept for the average American to get his or her mind around. The idea that an American President wants Americans to die simply boggles the mind - but it's crucial to understanding the Administration's agenda.
An Ebola epidemic would be immensely empowering to the forces of Big Government - as long as they can figure out a way to make sure their targeted population are the ones primarily at risk for exposure. But if a few Communists and Muslims die too, well...you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, as his people so often say.
Not coffee the way I am banned from making it, I hope?
it shouldn’t be left for customs officials to handle. If we are accepting folks into this country who have been in West Africa within the last 21 days, there should be medical staff evaluating every one of those individuals when they get off the plane.
hooked up to electrodes, a 210 electrical outlet, put in water and she was still unable to grasp the seriousness of the situation. She was classified by medical staff as 'low information ... uninformed'.
With an attitude like that you will never get a job in this administration.
True. Thankfully. :)
Yes, exactly.
There is no other conclusion to come to once you understand that all that is being done to our country is by design.
Nothing else makes sense.
Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a problem-solving principle devised by William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347). It states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better.
AND, what better time to have an outbreak of devastating proportions than in November, just in time for the mid terms?
Unfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:
“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)
Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University
My daughter just returned from Mexico last night and was, to use her term “interrogated” by Customs or border patrol officer at the airport. Asked her why she was in Mexico, where she had been, etc.
I find a certain irony in her circumstance—peppered with far more questions compared to a reporter returning from Liberia covering Ebola—not to mention compared with Guatemalans walking over the border.
I honestly don’t know why she was singled out. Not that it was bad to single her out, just a strange contrast.
Considering the abortion slaughter of blacks, you have to say 0bama is an equal opportunity murderer.
Sounds like D.C.
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