Posted on 10/15/2014 5:55:19 PM PDT by knak
Dallas County officials are considering asking Gov. Rick Perry (R) to declare a state of emergency for an area that has reported three cases of Ebola.
The county commissioners will meet Thursday afternoon to weigh the option, the Dallas Morning News reported late Wednesday.
A state of emergency would activate "appropriate recovery and rehabilitation aspects of all applicable local or interjurisdictional emergency management plans," according to state law.
It would also authorize emergency aid and assistance. Governors typically declare a state of emergency after a natural disaster.
Perry said Wednesday that he is in daily contact with state health leaders as regularly communicating with White House officials.
“This is the first time that our nation has had to deal with a threat such as this," Perry said in a statement Wednesday. "Every relevant agency at the local, state and national levels is working to support these individuals"
Dallas has reported two cases of Ebola since Saturday. Both patients are healthcare workers who had helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died from the disease last week.
Hospital staffers were not expected to be at risk of contracting the virus and were not being actively monitored by state or federal health officials. One of the nurses also took a flight into a Dallas airport just hours before she was diagnosed.
Liberia and Sierra, which have recorded thousands of cases of Ebola, have both declared a state of emergency since this summer.
How’s the fam in the mansion doing?
They’ll get it under control. Nigeria did.
Obama will go beserk.
Let him.
Let him.
Seriously, how could you tell?
“Governors typically declare a state of emergency after a natural disaster. “
All the Administration’s disasters come naturally for them.
IDIOTS!!!!!
“not being actively monitored by state or federal health officials”
They are already spending millions on this. And it is going to cot them millions and millions more.
A disaster declaration means that they get 80% refunded by the feds.
That said, if Perry formally asks for a Disaster declaration for this OBAMA-MADE DISASTER, the lib media will likely go nuts.
Typical.
No word on the first nurse’s boyfriend? I thought he was hospitalized with symptoms too.
I believe that the Sovereign Republic of Texas will be able to weather this storm and could resume foreign trade with nearby nations, such as the United States, in a relatively short time.
Extremely low risk to state of emergency in 10 days - wowzer
I expect this thing will suppress the liberal vote more than the conservative vote. I expect large cities like Dallas and Houston (liberal centers) will have greater chances of spreading the disease and fear in the black communities will consequently produce a lower black vote.
Then to.....maybe Obama will step up and give federal finds to the State...beat Perry out and use it against Perry in 2016.
it should be 100 per cent
One of Texas's biggest exports to the United States happens to be Mexicans.
Shhhhhhh - I posted a thread about this a week ago, and it got pulled.
Stop all air and ground traffic from Texas!
;-)
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