Posted on 10/10/2014 10:25:01 PM PDT by tcrlaf
The Canadian government advised its citizens Friday to leave the West African countries hardest hit by Ebola, while taking measures at its own borders to screen for potentially exposed travelers.
"We are asking Canadians living in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia to consider leaving by commercial means while they are still available," Health Minister Rona Ambrose said.
The minister also said that anyone traveling to Canada from the countries affected by the epidemic will be screened at airports.
Ambrose stressed that "the risk to Canadians here at home is very low," but said, as a precaution, quarantine officers will check those who may have been exposed to the hemorrhagic virus for fever and "determine whether additional public health measures are required."
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Either Canada is intending to shut down travel from the effected areas into Canada, or something larger is happening.
It’s refreshing to see a country that actually exhibits some concern for its own citizens. Ours seems more hostile than not of late.
And Obama and his fellow thugs in business suits still have the borders wide open!
Canada may have to close it’s border with US to stop Ebola in future because of Obola.
How many people have been infected or died? 9,000 and increasing fast!
It’ out of control.
Domestic reporting has gone awfully quiet, while internationally the level of concern is ratcheting up.
I take it that Canada will not be sending troops to these Ebola stricken countries?
Domestic reporting has gone awfully quiet, while internationally the level of concern is ratcheting up.
Sierra Leone is telling its people TODAY to “Go home and Die, we can’t help you anymore.”
Dallas and Spain show how woefully prepared the West is for this, and just single-digit numbers of infected will likely overwhelm the system.
This isn’t going to be like in the movies, folks. There will be no liberal TV hero riding to the rescue.
Just wait, some of the hard core Canadian lefties will say; But Why? Why are we expected to abandon the Liberians in their hour of need?” ‘So stay there and slowly disintegrate then, if it makes you feel more like a ‘hero’. Just don’t expect the Govt. you reject to spend millions in order to save you at the last minute. Nobody understands that disease just yet, and won’t for quite a while.
Well, as a Canadian, I am ok with them being asked to leave. I would, however, request they don’t enter Canada for 3 weeks until we’re sure they’re “clean”. I don’t know exactly where they’d stay in the interim, but I wouldn’t bring them into Canada (or anywhere else) until it’s determined they’re safe.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
"Something bigger" will be when the virus is out of control. Wait a minute...
what a bunch of racists... in order to make sure the illness doesn’t show up there, they need to bring it there...
signed
CDC and Obama administration.
To top it off, those are just official numbers. They don’t count people who never leave home or are buried in the backyard.
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...
If you can't say anything good about obama, don't say anything!
Soft balling it. I’ll cheer Canada when they tell their citizens come home now before we close you out.
You noticed that too?
The silence is deafening...
Don't want to make too big a deal of this ebola stuff so close to a midterm election...
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