Posted on 09/18/2014 10:47:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Sierra Leone is set to begin a three-day lockdown tonight at midnight to curb the spread of Ebola, according to Doctors Without Borders.
Government authorities have ordered the country's 6 million people to stay in their homes from Sept. 19 through Sept. 21, while volunteers go door-to-door to screen for Ebola and take infected people in hiding to Ebola facilities, according to Doctors Without Borders, which called the endeavor "coercive."
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will our 3,000 Troops arrive during the lockdown U have to wonder?
“volunteers go door-to-door to screen for Ebola and take infected people in hiding to Ebola facilities,”
will the volunteers be wearing the hazmat suits? Pretty warm there.
I was fortunate a few years back to receive some rudimentary training on MOPP gear, up to an including level 4.
Wouldn’t want to wear that in any hot environment.
Sounds like some trains and gas ovens are in use.
Ping.
So with an incubation rate of 21 days that mean diddly.
Washington is using Sierra Leone as a test case for “nationwide lockdown.”
After the three days they will find each town is surrounded by military who will shoot anyone who tries to leave for a month.
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Better a coercive society than an infective society.
I would take a voluntary lockdown until the community Ebola burned out.
In round numbers, they have: 1700 reported cases in Sierra Leone, roughly 400 recovered, and 700 still sick (the rest dead). Most new cases come from unreported cases who know they are sick with symptoms that match Ebola (but may be Lassa or a similar fever). If they can find and quarantine most of the sick but unreported Ebola cases, they can cut the rate of spread tremendously. This is worth doing - if they have a plan and the resources to deal with those they find.
So they won’t be allowing our troops in?
Word is they will burn the bodies. hopefully after they are dead.
I hope they don’t.
What about our 3,000 troops that are being sacrificed - ah, sent to ‘contain’?
Will each of them be held in a 3 week quarantine before allowed home again? Or is this the way to insure that we get a major, multiple, outbreak here - requiring, of course, ML to be declared. “sorry, no elections.”
After the murder of aid workers and journalists, not to mention the exposure danger, there’s no way I would be going door to door in that area.
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