Posted on 10/15/2014 11:10:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Northeast Ohio area teacher was on board the same plane that carried Amber Vinson, the Dallas nurse who travelled through Cleveland and was hours later diagnosed with Ebola virus. Two Solon schools announced that they will be closed on Thursday as a precaution after learning that a Solon Middle School staff member traveled home from Dallas on Frontier Airlines on Tuesday on a different flight, and an elementary teacher from Cleveland who confirmed contact with an Ebola infected person will be staying home from work until cleared by health officials to return to work.
Solon sent the following email to parents:
““Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, October 16, as a precaution. We learned today that an SMS staff member traveled home from Dallas on Frontier Airlines Tuesday on a different flight, but perhaps the same aircraft, as the Texas nurse with Ebola.
This circumstance came to light late in the day and we have been working since then to get as much information as possible from public health authorities. Although we believe what the science community and public health officials are telling us about the low risk of possible transmission of the virus through indirect contact, we are nonetheless taking the unusual step of closing the dual school building for Thursday so that we can have the schools cleaned and disinfected.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials were clear that they do not consider our staff member to be at risk since she did not come in direct contact with the Texas nurse and was not on the same flight. It is important to remember that Ebola is spread through direct contact with the blood or other body fluids...
(Excerpt) Read more at clevelandleader.com ...
The statistics of Ebola in Africa (8,000 infected to date) are pretty conclusive. A virus of common cold infects nearly everyone in a large city. Ebola hasn't done that - neither in Africa, nor in Europe, nor in the USA. These numbers are not produced by the CDC; and those are the worst case (in a city) due to poor awareness, widespread superstition, and not so great infrastructure.
Still Ebola is not winding down yet. So it is dangerous and contagious. However every one infected person infects not 100 people, like common cold can easily do, and not even 10 people - but on average somewhere between 0 and 2, depending on personal protection that is used. This affects the rate of spreading. The nurses got infected because they worked with Mr. Duncan up to the moment of his death, which is the most dangerous. Nobody else seems to be infected - neither the power washer crew, nor the Sheriff's deputy, nor the family of Mr. Duncan (as far as we know.) There are pretty good chances to keep this under control.
So you have decided to take disease guaranteed by our Government not to be here and compare it to the common cold.
We have one dead and two nurses stricken by this “cold”.
The death rate is 50-90% depending on whatever.
We have the CDC wanting everyone on a flight to report themselves.
Over 8,000 are dead since June.
What?
You must continue to convince us proles that there is no danger from a disease that we were assured would never get into the country, and if it did would never spread, and if it did spread that no one would die.
You know that if this does slip the leash, like it did in Liberia, conservative survivors are going to hunt down and hang every last Lib, as they share the guilt for genocide...
Without regard for age, gender, race, religion or national origin.
Of course, if Vinson sneezed during the flight, that could be problematic. (Ya think?)
That assumes an Obama voter has empathy and reason which are 2 traits not found in many liberals.
bring out your dead _____ France during the plague
I don’t believe conceptually your example is accurate. People with colds go to work and do what ever they would normally do for 7-10 days spreading colds. If ebola patients were able to walk around freely it would spread just as fast. For the most part they are to sick to move around and contact fewer people. In the case of Patrick Sawyer he seems to have infected virtually everyone he made contact that were not wearing PPE.
Next thing you know, reaction will spread six degrees from Duncan, and probably the whole country is in that scope.
Fear of going out in public might be strong enough by the November elections to affect turnout.
The bathrooms are cleaned regularly. The seats get cleaned infrequently. She sat in that seat for a couple hours. Sweat contains the virus.
With a transmission rate of 2 and a one-month transmission time, there would be 2 active Ebola cases at the end of the first month, assuming the index case either died or survived with immunity. In two months there would be 4 cases, in three months 8 cases, in four months 16 cases, in six months 64 cases, in nine months 512 cases, in one year 4,096 cases, and in two years 16,777,216 cases. If cases emerge after three weeks instead of four weeks, the numbers are much worse. If healthcare workers die off early in the Ebola epidemic, as one would expect with no vaccination and inadequate protection, then the transmission rate would increase from 2 to who knows how high, also leading to much higher case numbers.
from several articles above this one...nice - just nice...right before election time in NOV...what, Democrats afraid of voters going to the polls?
People no longer believe what the feds say, with good reason. There were a lot of mistakes in Dallas. An unintended consequence is that local governments are going somewhat overboard demonstrating how prepared and concerned they are.
And still people enter the US from the infected western African countries.
And I just read the US is STILL open to issue visas to potential Ebola carriers from all three Western African hot zones.
Over 100 apply per day.
Obama wants Ebola here......there is no doubt about it.
Really???? Go check out how many the Nigerian infected. Then compare that infection rate to the Bubonic Plague, Black death, etc. infection rate. It is shocking.
So how are the Benghazi and IRS scandal investigations coming along?
IN THIS CASE, the closing of the schools (oh and Tx) is doing the “abundance of caution” and heavy lifting that our good for nothing, WeAreTheWorld, Obola CDC patently REFUSES to do.
Kids miss a day (or two) of school; janitors get over time; parents get at worst inconvenienced and at best pathogens (of all kinds) removed from their kids school environment. And ALL in the area, including the low info types, learn lessons in:
Big government epic failure (ie the CDC allowing the exposed to Obola nurse to fly because her fever, tho present, WASNT, at the MOMENT of boarding high enough to say don’t fly!)
Immigration policies...our borders are wide open EVEN to those coming from known infectious hot spots.
Just how dithering Obola himself is.
As Rush would say “teachable moments.”
I live in Western PA...but the CDC says you can read my posts w/o ANY real worries of contagion.
It is comforting to me to know that common sense is present in the community where a person is known to have been exposed. Schools closed, teacher seems to be quarantined. This is how lethal infectious diseases are handled. Wish the fedzilla government would shut down travel from the infected countries.
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