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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“shocked”
*drink*
Van Jones is suggesting that Democrats blame Republicans for ebola to win elections.
Excellent, but I have one quibble: they don’t need the outbreak itself, they need the media to spend a lot of time talking about it instead of the poor economy, Obamacare disasters, Muslim terrorism at home and abroad, IRS crimes, etc.
Haven’t we always been at war with the Ebolans?
Good news Citizen, the Ebola ration, has been decreased
from 50 percent to 60 percent.
LOL. I hope he has intimate personal talks.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
You had to be told that you have your own teeth??? I’m thinking that most people would know that without being told. :=)
A one on one no strings attached sit down.
*snicker*
Wait til the real fun starts and our military medical systems are overwhelmed with ebola cases and we can't defend ourselves from Russia, China, or ISIS... and yeah, it's NOT likely but it IS possible.
Just like it's not likely Liberians would come here to seek first world FREE medical care - while risking the lives of millions of Americans they don't give a sh*t about anyhow... Yeah, that's not likely either... right?
Elizabeth Cohen and CNN need to wake up...
My uncle was with Customs in Arizona. It IS random unless there is a bulletin/order telling them otherwise.
I NEVER said that. You are LYING through what few teeth you have left.
At least, I don't remember saying that. :o)
CNN? Sing Elizabeth sing loud!
Thanks for the ping!
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