Posted on 10/23/2014 9:16:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
We have now learned what can happen in this Era of Obama when an American who does not have Ebola vomits near the Pentagon.
The first clue was a statement put out Friday by Arlington County, Virginia, where the Pentagon sits.
"At about 9:10 a.m. today, Pentagon Police officers identified a woman in the Pentagon South Parking Lot, around lanes 17-19, who was ill and vomiting," said the statement. "Arlington County Fire Department was notified and responded immediately with both emergency medical aid and hazmat response team."
"During the response," the statement said, "the individual allegedly indicated that she had recently visited western Africa."
Allegedly indicated? Scientific precision apparently did not matter in this particular instance of government disease control. Allegedly was good enough.
After all, she had vomited near the Pentagon.
"Out of an abundance of caution, all pedestrian and vehicular traffic was suspended around the South Parking lot, while Arlington County responded to the scene," the statement said. "At 9:53 a.m., the patient was taken to the Virginia Hospital Center; however she did not exit the ambulance."
She did not exit the ambulance?
Virginia Hospital Center -- where this American was delivered in an ambulance she did not exit -- is less than seven miles from the White House. It is rated one of the Top 100 hospitals in the United States.
The Arlington County Fire Department said Monday that when the ambulance arrived there, the hospital told the crew to wait and not bring the patient into the facility. An estimated 20 minutes later, according to the fire department, the hospital told the ambulance to take the woman to another hospital -- 7 miles away.
After all, she had vomited near the Pentagon.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post would report, a bus the woman had entered in the Pentagon parking lot had run into a blockade on Capitol Hill -- while carrying U.S. Marines. "The bus was placed under quarantine on the 600 block of I Street SE," said the Post.
So here we have the opening scene in this drama of Obama Era health care: An American vomits in a parking lot. Pentagon police close in. Someone alleges this American indicated she had visited West Africa. The parking lot is sealed. Traffic stopped. A hazmat team arrives. A bus the American had boarded before vomiting is quarantined in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol with a contingent of Marines on board. An ambulance brings the American to one of the nation's finest hospitals -- and she is turned away.
After all, she had vomited near the Pentagon.
Later, the Virginia Hospital Center would explain that it believed at that moment its facilities were not yet ready to receive a patient like this particular American.
"As suspected Ebola cases surfaced at other hospitals and the CDC continued to change their recommended care guidelines, Virginia Hospital Center believed it was imperative that we have dedicated connecting rooms in the biocontainment area that would allow for the use of an anteroom by staff to safely enter and leave a patient's room and safely remove and decontaminate Personal Protective Equipment," said the hospital on Tuesday. "We needed to construct this anteroom to help mitigate the risk of transmission to patients, staff and our community."
"The safety and well-being of the patient, as well as all of our patients, staff and community, was paramount in our decision to transport the patient to a hospital equipped to care for the patient at that time," said the hospital.
After all, she had vomited near the Pentagon.
At 5:45 p.m. on Friday, Inova Fairfax Hospital issued an update: "A patient who presented to the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Emergency Department for evaluation in relation to Ebola has not met the CDC criteria to be tested."
The American who had vomited near the Pentagon did not have Ebola, after all. She did not even need to be tested for it.
But before the government and its health care system discovered that she did not need to be tested for Ebola, she did need to be approached by a hazmat team, she did need to be turned away by one of the nation's top hospitals, and she did need to be perceived as a reasonable cause for U.S. Marines to be quarantined on Capitol Hill.
The day after this Ebola-free American vomited near the Pentagon, our physician in chief gave his weekly address. He titled it: "What You Need to Know About Ebola."
The president gave no indication he wanted to impose any kind of quarantine period on people entering the United States from the three countries -- Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone -- suffering an Ebola epidemic.
"Finally, we can't just cut ourselves off from West Africa, where this disease is raging," Obama said.
"Before this is over, we may see more isolated cases here in America," he said. "But we know how to wage this fight."
In the Washington suburbs last week, we did not see the government dealing with an isolated case of Ebola. We saw it dealing with an American who did not have Ebola.
If that makes you want to vomit, steer clear of the Pentagon.
and if she did have Ebola I am sure Jeffery would also write a snarky article about it.
What happens to highly complex systems that try to manage or pre-determine every risk and outcome?
They collapse.
The untold story...
"During the response," the statement said, "the individual allegedly indicated that she had recently visited western Africa."TJ uses the word "allegedly" to dismiss the statement. Of course the spokesperson had to use that word! You don't seriously expect a gubermint minion to issue a bald statement of fact, do you?
But given a purported [see, I did it too] statement from the vomiter herself, all of the precautions that followed were correct. What TJ should really be railing against is that we are STILL not prepared for the real thing.
Just think what would have happened if she had vomited near the Pentagon, AND broke a CFL bulb at the same time?
http://vomit.poyt.com/thesaurus.htm
The Vomit Thesaurus
There are so many different terms to describe the act of throwing up. Below is our rapidly growing list of slang forms of the word “vomit”:
Acid Chowder
An offering to the porcelain God(dess)
Arguing with the worms
Barf
Barffalo Bill
Barking at the ants
Belch the Bile By-product
The Big Spit
Bile Geyser
Blow a hole in the bowl
Blow Chunks
Blowing Groceries
Buick
Calling Earl
Calling Huey on the big white telephone
The Call of the Walrus
Calling the Buffalos
Chorkle
Chow shower
Chuck a Veggie
Chumming
Chunder
Chunk eruption
Cleaning the pipes
Colon Explosion in Reverse
Delivering Street Pizza
Disembarking dinner
Doing the Hoakey Croaky
Downloading dinner
Driving the Porcelain Bus
Esophogeal Eruption
Evacuate all you ate
Feeding the fish
Fertilize the bushes
Five finger spray
Flash the hash
Gale Force Burp
Gastro Geyser
Going for the 2nd chew
Go the Nostril Sauce
Goulash gush
Gurping
Gut Soup
Having an up and under
Having a Spit
Heave
Honk
Hoark
Hurl
Hwark
Involuntary personal protein spill
Jazz up the carpet
Jettisoning the chunky cargo
Laughing at the ground
Launching lunch
Leggo my Eggo
Liquid burp
Liquid laugh
Liquid scream
Look for aardvarks
Lose your load
Make a map
Making your Big Toes go flat
Mouth crying
My cousin Ralph
Oral diahorrea
Salad shooter
Sing a rainbow
Smucking your yuck
Spew
Spitting the furry lifesaver
Spray the weeds
Parking a tiger
Parking your groceries
Pavement pizza
Puke
Ralph
Reverse Defication
Reverse Diarrhea
Reverse Peristalsis
Reviewing your lunch
Review the menu
Ride the regurgitron
Rocket Launching
Rooping
Round-trip meal ticket
Selling a Buick
Shout at Your Shoes
Sicky
Singing New York
Snot the hotdog
Spill your Breakkie
Spraying a jet
Spray Puree
Taking the shortcut out
Talking on the big white telephone
Technicolour Yawn
3-D Burp
Throwing it into reverse
Throwing your cookies
Throw the Brown Cow
Toss the Slack-Mac’s
Tossing your cookies
Turn on the tap
Ughp
Uneat
Unswallowing
Upchuck
Up and Out
Vom
Vomit
Vommie
Vurp = a burp with a little vomit
Woof your Cookies
Worshipping the Porcelain God
Yacking
Yark
Yawn a big bright chunky rainbow
Yelling at the ants
Yodelling
I like to call it “calling Ralph on the big white telephone about buying a Buick.”
I found this to be incoherent.
If the government does too little, complaints.
If they overreact, complaints.
No medical system would do real well the first time they deal with something like Ebola. Some are hysterical. Some are totally dismissive. Confusing times.
*major snicker*
Did the poor woman catch a glimpse of Obama through a White House window? I suffer a similar reaction anytime I see his ugly face on TV.
“Allegedly indicated?”
That means nobody actually indicated, but someone from law enforcement later alleged that they might have indicated, in order to cover their behinds.
Projectile vomiting.
This nation didn’t try to determine every risk and outcome, it had the chance by restricting travel to extensively diminish any need for ebola scares. They could make it so mind numbingly hard for ebola infectees to make it all the way to the U.S. with travel restrictions. Now we have to deal with who knows how many false alarms, it makes the government look really awful. It also doesn’t look good for whomever elected a politician or politician who dropped the ball. Because incompetent voters make for incompetent politician.
Lsck of travel restrictions from the hot zone is to blame for the false alarms. This isn’t a hurricane or act of nature, this is the fault of people who decided to abandon common sense regarding the spread of a disease for the sake of getting more immigrants for their prospective voter pool, without regard for the potential cost to anyone else.
My brother has CVS (chronic vomiting syndrome), caused by diabetic nerve damage. He is prolific in his projectile vomiting abilities, but has a barf bag with him most of the time. He will be puking for the rest of his life.
True, but the lack of support from the rest of the world to deal with ebola risks our lives.
The list omits my favorite, “Buying a round-trip meal ticket”
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