Posted on 08/06/2014 4:57:42 PM PDT by John W
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday ramped up its response to the expanding Ebola outbreak, a move that frees up hundreds of employees and signals the agency sees the health emergency as a potentially long and serious one.
The CDC’s “level 1 activation” is reserved for the most serious public health emergencies, and the agency said the move was appropriate considering the outbreak’s “potential to affect many lives.” The CDC took a similar move in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and again in 2009 during the bird-flu threat.
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Suspend all commercial flights out of the region until it is contained.
Isolate the two in the hospital and no outside communication, traffic until all ebola bacteria are dead, otherwise they have no business here.
Extreme? Not if there’s an outbreak. that will look like a practice run in comparison.
Dr. Carson said always think worst case scenario in situations such as this, but then, he’s from Johns Hopkins, so what would he know?
Risky business. A pandemic would not abide by political correctness and bypass D.C.
Those two Americans have all the business being here and being treated, just as we will allow our GIs in Africa to come home if they are dying and need to be treated.
Do you really think that our future and Ebola, rests on those two and the next three weeks?
Ping...
But you know our govt has total control over any antidote that may have been created recently. They will treat and take care of themselves FIRST, and most likely leave the rural, tea party conservatives to fend for ourselves.
Just saying.
Thank the hero of benghazi
As I stated, GIs are different. They are in service of our country, these two were acting privately.
if I did the same as they did, and I imagine they were not part of the decision, as mental confusion is a symptom, I would not come here and risk it. Ebola has not been here, not discovered here.
do you really think these two, in going over there to treat them, planned to bring it back to the US?
And, no, I would NEVER equate GIs with private citizens.
We do not send GIs into situations that are anything but at least ostensibly for the good of the US, and by congressional approval. We do not send our GIs into zones which endanger them and have nothing to do with our national security, and would certainly not have them do anything that is a pure risk to our security.
No way this is the same. It’s the confusion of poor language in describing Benghazi. They were diplomats, not private travelers.
If you have an issue with it, take it up with Ben Carson, who said the same on Cavuto’s show today.
And, no, I NEVER said that our entire livelihood rested on these two.
I believe that.
LOL, GIs are different. So you admit that you will allow our GIs to came back to be treated, and we have a lot of them in Africa.
But an American Ebola doctor, a Christian missionary, you want left to die.
How about all the Ebola in our private research labs scattered around America and in Canada, why do you claim that the Christians brought Ebola to the U.S.?
Why do you think that these two patients are the factor that decides whether America gets Ebola problems or not? They won’t be, they are the least of our problems.
Let’s face it. We are now just a stroke of a pen and a phone call away from a nationwide dictatorial edict from Lord Obola to shelter in place. Mid terms? Who needs mid terms? Time to shut down the Reichstag.
So to you, as long as those two don’t cause an Ebola problem, then America is safe and we can all relax again, because our Ebola future all rests on whether there is a breach in that special clinic or not.
I have a concern with the first doctor walking into the hospital a couple days after being described as in grave condition.
We do not send our military to treat Ebola patients
Have you ever heard the term, enter at your own risk?
Bringing the ebola victims to the US was a very cunning move.
We are divided (yet again) already & nothing has even come of it yet.
0bama & his minions will share the blame if it ends badly. Many of us here are not going to like that.
Actually, if this outbreak takes another bounce and opens up a new front, we very well might see US military on the ground with choppers, med tents, hospital ships and the like.
It’s part of what we do.
At some point, NGO’s cannot handle it, and I think they may have reached that point. We shall see how the next couple of weeks proceed. In past outbreaks, it reaches a peak and begins to decline. I see no decline, but I do see a leveling off so keep your finger crossed that we don’t have to intervene militarily with aid.
Whether they live or die Ebola is here and we are screwed.
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