Posted on 10/04/2014 10:39:46 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, is pictured arriving at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
Holds a relative wearing traditional African dress while on the phone
Is notifying his family members that he will be at their Dallas home shortly
Was able to make the journey after allegedly lying on health forms in Liberia
He is in a critical condition in hospital and is being held in isolation
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I think you’re missing a “C’ in front of the “Rap” music. There are some decent mixes here and there. Sometimes the music is done well, only to be ruined by an overloud shout-out from a wanna-be-gangbanger. For the most part, rap is the refuge of the lazy, untrained, unimaginative young man who wants to be popular.
So you close off the airports in Liberia for example. Folks got frustrated at this treatment...so they take a bus over to Togo, and fly out there to Morocco, then onto Madrid, and then onto Miami. Figure a two-day ride on a bus...sit around at the Lome airport for eight hours for the flight, and you can be in Miami area within five days.
You basically would have to close off the whole of central Africa, and I doubt if this would really work. The only alternate and reasonable deal is a holding pattern at US airports and stall folks for a number of days in some quarantine situation. Folks would get hostile over a cot and some bowl-of-soup situation with guards at the doors holding you in some marginal camp situation.
Of course Delta would bitch, but that's life in the airline biz.
Moreover, the cabby will testify that her family lied about Nathaline Williams's condition. She was bleeding from her mouth, but they told him she'd had a miscarriage and had bit her tongue. They told him "it was not the Ebola thing, it was like abortion."
http://www.westernjournalism.com/taxi-driver-drove-american-ebola-patient-hospital-will-scare/
In another article I read, the cabby said that, after the ride, thinking about what he saw, he fumigated his cab twice.
Moreover, we have Duncan's behavior in his first hospital visit. If he knew he had Ebola, he would have objected when, on his first ER visit, Dr. Feelgood sent him on his way with worthless antibiotics. "Hey Doc! I'm from Liberia. I handled an Ebola patient nine days ago. This is America. I need ZMapp, stat! Or maybe some lamivudine if you are out."
I read a book on writing, written by Stephen King.
In it he said that most of his fans believe “The Stand” is his best work. Given that he wrote it over 25 years ago, he is a little disappointed that he hasn’t “improved” his quality of work during that period.
I read the Author’s edition and “enjoyed” it very much.
As far as any correlation to the Ebola out-break there is practically none. In the books scenario we would all be dead by now. Oh, and of course the “threat” was not Ebola.
And Angela Corey "knew" that GZ was guilty as sin. So what? Nobody is guilty of anything until the jury says so. Liberia is simply in a hurry to pin the blame on a single, throwaway guy. They don't want to be pinpointed as a country that executed - perhaps unwittingly - a biological attack on the USA. The prosecutor got the memo and said the words, just as he was ordered to do. It's politics.
Besides, as cynwoody points out just above, the family of the dead girl did their share of lies, otherwise they wouldn't be able to convince the cab driver to transport the patient. As Mr. Duncan quickly went his way, he may have not given it a second thought. Unwise? Perhaps. But all his behavior indicates that he indeed had no clue that he just about killed himself on that day. A person who knowingly came to the USA to get treated would have ran to the hospital right from the airport, as early treatment is more likely to result in survival. As he is now critical... this means that his internal organs are falling apart. There is no cure for that, outside of a transplant. Even if by some magic the virus would disappear from his body right now, it's pretty hard to repair this much damage. Humans can't grow themselves a new heart, or new lungs, or new blood vessels.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
In retrospect, a wiser course of action for Duncan would have been to postpone his US trip and seek out Liberian Dr. Gorbee Logan.
Dr. Logan read in the journals that Ebola replicates in much the same way as HIV. So, he looked around for drugs that are effective against HIV. He hit upon lamivudine, an anti-retroviral used to treat HIV and hepatitis-B, and achieved success with his first patient, a health-care worker. So far, he is 13 for 15, the two losses being patients who got on the drug the latest after becoming ill.
Ebola and political asylum too!
No need to drag the Zimmerman case into this discussion. I really feel insulted to be compared to Angela Corey. I beleive that there is more evidence that the guy knew he had ebola, but in any case you seem to agree with my main point which was that he ain’t ever going to have to face the secular justice system - in any jurisdiction.
I perfectly understand :-) But it wasn't you who was compared to her, but a Liberian official who said that "they know" that the man lied. Sorry for any misunderstanding! Here is the quote:
"He will be prosecuted" when he returns to Liberia, Binyah Kesselly, chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, told reporters.
As Mr. Kesselly, chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, has no authority to prosecute even a housefly, all his words are just words for the international audience. Maybe Mr. Duncan was truly ignorant; maybe he suspected something; maybe he knew but hoped to get better. In any case, he has already paid an enormous price for being a good neighbor. Nobody forced him to help with that girl; he could have walked away and be healthy and with his gf in TX, among 10,000's of other visa overstayers who are safe and secure there.
“No one in the Administration can find a way to ban flights from legit countries (Japan, UK, Belgium, etc).”
Passports get stamped from every country, and they are dated. Any passport with an Africa stamp would be banned.
If a foreign country allows one to board a flight to America we refuse entry and put them back on that plane.
The airlines would correct that problem real quick after the first time they had to fly one back in an empty plane!
I say today but we might not hear about it.
Wow!
“So you close off the airports in Liberia for example. Folks got frustrated at this treatment...so they take a bus over to Togo, and fly out there to Morocco, then onto Madrid, and then onto Miami. Figure a two-day ride on a bus...sit around at the Lome airport for eight hours for the flight, and you can be in Miami area within five days.”
Each delay allows the symptoms ...
... to be ...
... MORE ... OBVIOUS.
Will the girlfriend get Ebola?? Will the step-daddy’s stepdaughter get Ebola?? And which family went to the gated Community....his sister or his girlfriend?
A lot of people are missing the point re "banning flights". It's kind of like the gun control debate. Guns don't kill, people do. In this case airline flights don't kill, it's the infected people that get off the flight.
The solution is simple. Refuse entry to any person who has travelled to Sierra Leone, Guinea, or Liberia in the last 21 days. At least its a start.
Passports exist for a reason.
The CDC head has stated that it is not possible to “close the border”. This is a POLITICAL DECSION. He is making a political statement. He should stick to public health.
Mr. President, how many American deaths are you willing to “absorb” to protect Africans privilege to fly here?
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