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Obama: US Working on Protocols for Ebola Screening at Airports
Newsmax ^ | October 6, 2014 | Thomson/Reuters

Posted on 10/07/2014 8:09:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

President Barack Obama said on Monday his administration was working on additional protocols for screening airplane passengers to identify people who might have Ebola and would step up efforts to make medical professionals aware of what to do if they encounter a case.

Obama made the disclosure after meeting top administration officials involved in attempting to prevent an outbreak of Ebola in the United States.

After a series of missteps involving the handling of a man who arrived in Dallas from Liberia with Ebola, Obama said "we have learned lessons in terms of what happened in Dallas."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; airports; daylate; dollarshort; ebola; health; obama; screening; travelers; usa
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To: doc1019

You beat me to it.

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21 posted on 10/07/2014 8:29:47 PM PDT by Mears
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To: barbarianbabs; Mastador1

Ok?


22 posted on 10/07/2014 8:31:10 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019

methink the word “protocol” confounds him.

Regular vocab in his world seems be “tee time, when’s lunch?, Michelle don’t feed me wh menu crap weirdo food anymore, let’s go out to lunch & eat subs & fries, i need a beer summit to show how nice i am, i showed up at my security meeting,

Michelle here’s your obligatory date since you are my beard for our anniversary where we tie up traffic to kingdom come, folks like you and me, what’s the balance on my credit card, lois lerner was only telling the truth

, i will always have the muzzies back send a hand delivered note to the Oklahoma mosque in support of islam, who cares about the black/Afro-American community i win by virtue of color, Read my books, I’m audacious”, beheadings? islam is a religion of peace”.

please feel free to add your vocab of choice


23 posted on 10/07/2014 8:32:26 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Sligo Surf Club)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why do I get the feeling that the solution will involve hiring more TSA agents armed with rectal thermometers?


24 posted on 10/07/2014 8:33:03 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

25 posted on 10/07/2014 8:37:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Will Africans be waived through (like Saudis) while infidels endure medicak tests and body cavity searches?
One more reason to drive.


26 posted on 10/07/2014 8:37:11 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Great job bammy, way to be proactive and out in front of this thing... Now you’re working on screening protocols? Gee, you didn’t think to put anyone on this before it was a problem? What an idiot.


27 posted on 10/07/2014 8:38:48 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Obola and his entire administration are the utter epitome of leading from behind.


28 posted on 10/07/2014 8:40:00 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Unfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:

“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)

Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University


29 posted on 10/07/2014 8:42:47 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

still working.

yup.

sure.

oops, my foursome is up, gotta go.


30 posted on 10/07/2014 8:44:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You screening protocols cannot stop someone infected with Ebola who is not yet showing symptoms. So your screening cannot work if they lie about Ebola exposure.
31 posted on 10/07/2014 8:50:55 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This country is going down the tubes. The Plan is proceeding perfectly.


32 posted on 10/07/2014 8:55:05 PM PDT by Gritty (Obama wants to wage war by measuring it out in teaspoons - Ralph Peters)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

here is a novel idea, if you are not going to put a moratorium on travel from West Africa, shut down all Visas and travel from West Africa until all protocols are in place


33 posted on 10/07/2014 9:08:34 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Do they really think we're that stupid? All these kinds of situations and scenarios have been planned for and fully gamed out years ago. Do they really want us to think that the government is this incompetent?
34 posted on 10/07/2014 9:19:36 PM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: martinidon
Exactly. Simply look in the traveler's paperwork.

If he/she has visited an Ebola hotzone within the past six months they have the choice of going back from where they came or entering a three-month quarantine facility.

If they select this second option, they must pay in full, in advance, all before entering the United States.

35 posted on 10/07/2014 9:22:36 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: doc1019

Heard a report of a potential rapid screening test, that does not require blood that might be available soon which is THE most hopeful thing I’ve seen in this Cluster F..... Short of that they can screen all they want, with an incubation period of 21 days checking temps and asking people about exposure is next to worthless. This is more “security theater” like our TSA
Right NOW we might be able to get a handle on this by shutting off all air traffic to the region and sending aid in etc. if this spreads much farther that option will go away, then God alone knows where this goes. Might just fizzle, might explode. This is unknown territory with this disease..


36 posted on 10/07/2014 9:31:40 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Kozak

http://forextv.com/market-news/japan-creates-30-minute-ebola-test-report/

Note the date of the article.


37 posted on 10/07/2014 9:35:44 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The US feral government has protocols out the wazoo aperture. This is another "we had bad intelligence" moment, and once again it is not true.

No kidding. This is so ridiculous I can't believe they're even floating it.

38 posted on 10/07/2014 9:38:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Rather than phoney “screening”, how about if we just ban all folks from any country in Africa that has cases of Ebola?


39 posted on 10/07/2014 9:41:31 PM PDT by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And this would have stopped the Dallas bound ebola Liberian how?

Scary stupid.


40 posted on 10/07/2014 10:37:59 PM PDT by mom.mom
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