Posted on 10/02/2014 10:49:41 AM PDT by maggief
(CNN) The partner of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan is quarantined in her Dallas apartment where Duncan became sick with the virus after his trip to Liberia, the woman told CNNs Anderson Cooper.
The woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Louise, is quarantined with one of her children under 13 and two nephews in their 20s because they were in apartment when Duncan became ill, Cooper said.
Duncan, a 42-year-old Liberian citizen, is now hospitalized in Dallas.
But Louise remains in her apartment, and shes worried, not knowing what to do and waiting on federal health officials, Cooper said.
She doesnt know how shes going to get food into the apartment. She was told she said maybe the Red Cross would come by. Shes still waiting for that, Cooper said.
Some health officials brought sandwiches last night, but she hasnt had anything today, Cooper said Thursday. Shes certainly kind of at loose ends and is obviously extremely worried.
Coopers interview with Louise will air Thursday evening on CNNs AC360˚.
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It didn't work in West Point (Monrovia) which is mostly surrounded by water. It turns out the better way to deal with the disease is to quarantine larger areas that are more self sufficient. Within the large area they go in and pull all the bodies and the symptomatic people and take them to the incinerator or the high security quarantine.
The tracing, tracking, confinement of suspected cases until test results come back, etc all work better than putting a fence around an area.
Who will force the will on Obama?
Look at it this way. You are a Dallas PD officer, and get a call that a group of probable infected are wandering down the street and you are supposed to go stop them.
What will you do? Confront them and risk yourself, or head for the tall grass?
In our grandfather’s day, they did enforce quarantine. They shot you, and burned you in your own house, if you tried to break it. But now we will sit back and go shopping while stepping over the woman who crashed and bled out in the supermarket.
I made it a point to check through my pantry this morning.
Lots of different kinds of pasta and dehydrated potatoes, many tins of veggies and fruit, PB, jellies, packets for making beer bread and muffins, tins of salmon, dry cereals, instant oatmeal, and tins of soup.
I could last at least 3 months if I rationed everything.
**Funny, I did the same..neighbors, family always saying if a catastrophe happens, they’ll know who’s house to eat at!We always have good supply of water, pasta, soups..dried goods that will last for several months.
Better safe than sorry!
& then you have people like my older Aunts who go to the store daily just to get out of the house. They buy just what they need for the day. I worry about them if something was to happen :(
I’m getting my flu shot next week.
My sister and her family live in Chicago. People pride themselves on shopping for their meals daily, and how great it is. Most can’t cook.
My brother in law is an excellent cook, and is well stocked for food, but that is the exception.
If she doesn’t have enough food to make a meal in her home after one day of quarantine she’s a poor housekeeper.
I’m eating Paleo (only fresh foods and nuts). Right now I only have enough food to get myself through until shopping day on Friday.
Guess I’m a crappy housekeeper, too.
Oh, and I’m also running low on toilet paper.
I just gave a bunch of food to my diabetic son and switched to Paleo. I need to stock my freezer... bad.
Any quarantine has to be imposed NOW, and it has to be pretty draconian...although with an adequate food supply and compensation, which will help to keep people from sneaking out.
There may be more cases this time around, or there may not be. But this is just the first time, so a strategy has to be in place.
Naturally, there is no Surgeon General and nobody in charge because Bambi never appointed anyone after the washout of his leftwing nutbag. There’s an acting SG named Boris D. Lushniak, who appears to be an undistinguished and probably very political Rear Admiral.. whose latest initiative was “eat more veggies.”
Yeah, I wondered about that, too. But, of course, when you are trying to grab ratings with this exclusive interview, what’s a little lie here and there?
That would make us two voices in the wilderness. There are two other factors. You've got people who bought Obamacare plans with pretty high deductibles when they got their insurance, and may not be prepared to pay for the visit and the medications. And you've got hordes of invaders in hiding because they didn't report for hearings, and/or don't want to be deported.
Three years ago I took a trans-Atlantic cruise which wasn't on quarantine for norvovirus, but it had pre-quarantine rules. There were a few cases and they wanted to stop it from spreading. People with symptoms weren't allowed to leave their rooms at all. Everyone couldn't even get our own food and beverages at a buffet, or even get our own sugar packets from a sugar bowl at dinner. The norvovirus didn't spread, mainly because people with symptoms stayed out of sight.
I'm not a "we're all gonna' die" person in panic. But I will shop early in the AM, got to the first showing of movies and sit away from people, and avoid crowded places that are dirty or have poor ventilation. I pretty much do that anyway.
Look at that Cruise Ship that was Stranded in the Gulf of Mexico a while ago.
After three days things went to hell.
After Three Days without Power, Water or New Food, then things start to get dicey.
Unless you are prepared......
Look at all these poor housekeepers! lol!
As I have posted earlier (forgive me if it was to you), the normalcy bias is such that no quarantine will be put in place till it is to late.
There are people already saying that the lady should be allowed to go buy food, because the news says Ebola is not contagious.
And lets be honest, it is Texas/OU this weekend. Do you think they would postpone that game for a few cases of Ebola?
We are playing “Lets pretend!” right now. I fear it will continue till we have to many cases to manage.
As an aside, I grew up on a farm. When you got a bad disease in the hogs, you slaughtered out and left the barns fallow for a long period of time. If it was a “minor” one going around, you put the hogs in a tight lock down. One of my first jobs was to shoot any stray animals that got to close to the farrowing barns.
We were pretty good, but even so we still got hit with a bug. To many vectors to stop on a farm.
Expand that out to the Dallas area, and where do you draw the line? Kansas?
I guarantee you women from the 3rd world know how to cook.
They’d starve otherwise.
Really and why are they forced to stay in an infected apartment? dot Gov is nothing but idiots.
Government incompetence. However, they were thoughtful enough to buy millions of dollars in weapons and assault equipment for most departments, and to build holding concentration camps in wilderness areas. So they're kind of preparing, in case they slip up elsewhere the problem will be "solved".
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