We Know How to Stop Ebola says CDC Chief

wsbradio ^ | 08/04/14 | wsradio

[Chickensoup]

http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/we-can-stop-ebola-cdc-chief-vows/ngtDx/

So we know how to STOP Ebola. So it isn't a problem, right?

Except for all the poor souls who get it before it is STOPPED.

Interesting perspective, no prevention, just reacting.

Same difference now between safety and security.

No more safety, which is about prevention, only security which is about identifying the perp after the crime.

No more safety anywhere.

[Chickensoup]

http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/we-can-stop-ebola-cdc-chief-vows/ngtDx/

So we know how to STOP Ebola. So it isn't a problem, right?

Except for all the poor souls who get it before it is STOPPED.

Interesting perspective, no prevention, just reacting.

Same difference now between safety and security.

No more safety, which is about prevention, only security which is about identifying the perp after the crime.

No more safety anywhere.

[DannyTN]

Did they just now learn? Or are they criminal for not stopping before now?

[Chickensoup]

Good question.

[Iron Munro]

When is the last time the federal government got anything right?

[Chickensoup]

I don’t think it is about getting it right. I think it is about a mindset change where people are expendable.

[jpsb]

Back in the old days when people had common sense we had a saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". These days we just mindlessly listen to dot gov. I wonder how that is going to work out for us?

Surgical gloves and masks might be a good thing to have hanging around the house. You know just in case something bad breaks out here in the USA.

[null and void]

Worth repeating:

Did they just now learn? Or are they criminal for not stopping before now?

I guess as long as it was only killing black Africans, and doing it's small part for Agenda 21, that was OK.

Maybe a certain FReeper is right -for all the wrong reasons- bringing Ebola to ConUS is ultimately for the good, if it causes this cure to become public.

Too bad if lots of American eggs get broken in the process, though...

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...

[Lady Heron]

Let's see...they know how to stop Ebola so they are either racist or evil for not stopping it in Africa or maybe those conspiracy theorist are correct and there is an evil political plan behind Ebola.

Seriously, this is the optic the CDC thinks is smart?????

[I want the USA back]

Stop travel to and from the affected countries.

[Chickensoup]

The CDC has lied in the past for political purposes and has withheld data.
At one point during a flu epidemic a few years ago, it stopped publishing locations of new outbreaks, just gave out gross statistics and said the locations were unimportant.

[Oberon]

Oh, if all you want is to stop Ebola, we know how to do that. It's a two-step process:

1. Kill all the people who have Ebola, and burn the bodies.

2. Kill all the people who have been exposed to the people who have Ebola, and burn the bodies.

It's how they treat hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle. No, it's not a viable option among civilized people, but just stopping Ebola is exactly that simple.

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[Qiviut]

This CDC Chief is engaging in “unfortunate choices of words” (I’m being kind here), IMO. If he believes what he’s spouting to the public, we’re ‘toast’. He is stating this can be ‘stopped’ here as if it’s no big deal. It will be a HUGE deal, especially if it gets into certain populations who might react similarly to those Africans who are (for lack of better terms) uneducated, more primitive. Just imagine this stuff running loose in very poor communities, “feral” groups (you know who I’m talking about) or as another example, a certain population who engages in risky, unprotected behavior with AIDS.

On another matter, I heard a reporter ask the Mt. Sinai doctors if their patient who came from an African country & has a fever/vomiting, is currently being tested for Ebola ... if this person HAS Ebola, will they be sent to Emory. The answer was ‘no’, they can “treat” the person at Mt. Sinai .... this means supportive care only as there is no “treatment” that is a cure. The charges of ‘racism’ will be here any day ..... who decides who gets the serum and who doesn’t? It’s not in commercial production, but you just know common sense will go out the window and if there is any serum available, “picking and choosing” will be going on. The two who did get the experimental serum were medical folks so it was definitely “informed consent” and a unique opportunity for the drug company as opposed to ‘human trials’ on an Ebola-stricken population of Africans.

[Lorianne]

That won’t work because people can travel to other non infected countries first and then come here. The borders between some of these African countries are very lax. So, say you are a Chinese national working in one of these countries. You cross the border where there is lax attention or where you can pay a bribe to cross. Then you take a flight home to China and then from there to the USA.

You might not have gotten an entry stamp in you passport going into one of the affected countries nor an exit stamp when you left. So you are bureaucratically entering the US from a China.

[Lou L]

When is the last time the federal government got anything right?

I find it amusing that the same government that couldn't accomplish the relatively trivial tasks required to roll out a website or perform routine backups of e-mail servers, is now fully competent and capable of eradicating a highly-contaigous virus.

This is the reason people are skeptical of the government, certainly of this administration.

[Lou L]

No, it's not a viable option among civilized people, but just stopping Ebola is exactly that simple.

I don't think it's necessary to kill all Ebola patients, but it is necessary to isolate them until the disease runs its course. Any medical personnel treating these patients must take measures to keep themselves from contracting the disease. These countries cannot afford to lose experienced medical personnel to a virus.

If the patient dies, the body must be handled and buried in such a way that its handlers (typically family members) do not contract the disease.

[Covenantor]

Here’s the full quote. Not as outrageous as the OP has posted. While I continue to question the competency of the CDC administration, this is no smoking gun.

Decide for yourselves.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-director-we-can-stop-ebola-from-spreading/

(excerpt)
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he is confident that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa can be stopped and likely won’t reach the U.S.

“The plain fact is, we can stop it. We can stop it from spreading in hospitals and we can stop it in Africa [which] is really the source of the epidemic and where we’re surging our response so that we can control it there,” Tom Frieden said in an interview Sunday. He noted that the U.S. has helped stop every previous outbreak of the deadly virus, even though it’s not easy.

Frieden said he was encouraged by the apparent improvement of Kent Brantly, an American doctor from Texas who contracted the disease in Liberia but arrived back in the U.S. on Saturday for treatment.

He said that he couldn’t “predict the future” on whether Brantly would survive, but said that his signs of improvement - such as being able to walk out of the ambulance in his protective suit - are very important.

His wife and two children who visited him in Liberia are on a 21-day fever watch but Frieden said it is unlikely they are at risk of contracting the disease because they are not believed to have had contact with him when he was sick.

“The fact is that when patients are exposed to Ebola but not sick, they cannot infect others. It doesn’t spread casually and it doesn’t spread from someone who’s not sick,” he said.

[jacquej]

Careful there, we don’t want to give them any ideas!

[FamiliarFace]

The question about Ebola that I have, and haven’t seen an answer to, is how did these two workers, in full protective gear (think hazmat suits) get Ebola in the first place? I want someone to explain that to me, because the current thinking is that this is spread only through bodily fluids contact, and that sneezing isn’t a way of transmitting it. I wonder if the virus has a new strain. Still, even with sneezing, they were wearing full protective gear. So what gives?

[jospehm20]

These are the same people who know how to secure anthrax, except for when they accidentally lose track of it and expose 80+ CDC personnel to it. The CDC does not give me a warm and fizzy regarding their competence lately.