Posted on 08/05/2014 7:44:30 PM PDT by xuberalles
I love how the media, in a frantic attempt to cover Obama’s tracks, is working overtime to convince us Ebola is not deadly or highly contagious. Check, please! There are documented cases of trained experts contracting Ebola while wearing environmental suits and dying. So far, more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines fighting the virus have ended up contracting Ebola themselves. This is happening despite the fact that they go to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the disease.
I have no problem providing the best possible treatment for those two courageous Americans who were merely trying to remedy the suffering of others, but for the life of me I don’t understand why the CDC wouldn’t secure treatment through a foreign base or hospital? Why risk a pandemic of Ebola, one of the deadliest contagions ever known to man, by consciously introducing it to our urban epicenters? Who doesn’t like to keep napalm in the forest? I could careless about the promise of experimental vaccines, or survival rates, for viruses mutate faster than the legality of an IRS audit at a gun show. Speaking of authority, for the love of God why aren’t international passengers being tirelessly screened at every port, station, checkpoint and airport traveling anywhere near the U.S.? Just don't be alarmed that the CDC has set up an Ebola "quarantine station" at LAX in order to help prevent the spread of the virus once it arrives here; which will be too late to prevent deaths on our soil. American citizens can’t take mouthwash or tweezers on a flight without being questioned or detained, yet somehow Ebola doesn’t rise to that level of discretion because Washington – ground zero for incompetence and corrupt leadership – says so?
Do you want to know what’s even scarier? Me neither! Ever since his youth Obama has blamed America and vowed revenge for the so-called rape and economic colonization of Africa; not that indigenous warlords and rogue dictators continue to enslave and kill their countrymen in the name of humanity. How ironic, utterly tragic, would it be if the modern plague of his native homeland granted Barry the national emergency he so desperately craves in order to consolidate power, bring America to its knees, and enact martial law? Sorry, I put nothing past a man who was raised by Communists, identified with radical Islamists in college and Congress, and spent 20 years in a blatantly anti-American church. And now, at the most opportune time of progressive ambivalence, we have no borders. Illegal immigrants never carry disease, do they? Thank God Mexico has standards and polio. Welcome to Ebola….population “dumb”!
Note: "Barack Obama has just signed an executive order that gives the federal government the power to apprehend and detain Americans that show symptoms of "diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled."
The CDC has just put up a brand new webpage entitled "Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals.
If we have been infecting monkeys with Ebola for years in the United States, for testing, why do you think we can’t handle bringing that American Ebola doctor to our Ebola treatment center?
I have no problem providing the best possible treatment for those two courageous Americans who were merely trying to remedy the suffering of others, but for the life of me I don’t understand why the CDC wouldn’t secure treatment through a foreign base or hospital? Why risk a pandemic of Ebola, one of the deadliest contagions ever known to man, by consciously introducing it to our urban epicenters?
Bravo.
Have you seen the conditions over there? Rewashing gloves and boots and sometimes no electricity or running water and African staff and tattered protective gear?
I’m amazed at how many FReepers think that Ebola is no worse than a case of the sniffles. Just amazed. Okay. It’s no big deal.
Thank you.
Yup. The controlled treatment of two individuals is low risk, the continued influx of air travelers from or exposed to persons from affected regions is high risk.
I think we are about to get smacked upside the head because the desire to be PC has eclipsed the desire of our society to survive.
Definitely that too. Obama’s open door policy exposes us to every threat known to man. Treasonous and unforgivable.
Yep, if the terrorist are willing to kill themselves with bombs strapped to their bodies, they would surely be willing to bring Ebola into the US through our open borders and spreading it far and wide.
Me too. It’s Hemorraghic fever for godsake. The media is working overtime to brainwash the masses which can only serve to worsen the crisis if it spreads.
Exactly.
Here’s the fallout politically:
1. CLOSE OUR BORDERS.
2. STOP AFRICANS FROM COMING HERE.
Democrats are against both of those, so they ignore the science and put Americans at risk.
Could also be part of the global warming ‘downsizing’ the population plan.
You are absolutely corrrect. Zero supporting infrastructure and replacement supplies. No containment and to compound the issue, the people are hiding the sick, then there are the people way back in the bush with the bush doctor.
These healthcare professionals are being bombarded with high concentrations of virus and it takes very little for a breach.
“There are documented cases of trained experts contracting Ebola while wearing environmental suits and dying”
Citation please. The doctors in third world countries (where this virus has its outbreak) are not in full containment gear. They do NOT have the types of sterile conditions that modern medicine uses routinely.
This is NOT an airborne vector disease. It is a disease that is transmitted by having intimate contact with body fluids. The people catching and dying from this disease have come in contact with the body fluids of infected people.
Since 1976 when the disease was first identified there are less than 5000 documented deaths. This is NOT the sign of a rampant easily spread disease.
Get your head out of the scare tactics of silly people who understand nothing
“why do you think we can’t handle bringing that American Ebola doctor to our Ebola treatment center?”
Have you SEEN the Atlanta traffic they drove him thru without police escort?
Repent!
Jokes aside, there’s a difference between deliberately infecting a monkey in a sealed box and then incinerating it to make sure nothing contagious gets out, vs having a fully infected human host walk in from the street with expectation he’ll walk out - carrying a hideously deadly disease in the process.
I know this is going to sound "out there"; however the reason I think contagions are not a problem (as they could have been easily for over two decades) is the cartels are doing some clean up as it is in their best interests to make sure the border is "open". Bad crap starts creeping through and the border actually does shut down the cartels take a major hit. Just an out there theory.
So? If we can’t handle treating an Ebola doctor at our top Ebola center, then you seem to be thinking that the first Ebola patient we get off the streets spells the end for us.
We seem to have been dealing with infecting monkeys with the Ebola virus, for years.
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