Posted on 10/25/2014 4:02:47 PM PDT by RightGeek
... his own Ebola diagnosis prompted the governors of New York and New Jersey on Friday to impose a mandatory 21-day quarantine for medical workers returning from the countries hit hardest by the epidemic. Illinois later in the day imposed similar restrictions.
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“For everybody who is professionally trying to go to the three epidemic countries, the situation has become more difficult with each passing day and each Ebola case — or alleged Ebola case — named in the United States,” said Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, who says returning health workers should voluntarily isolate themselves upon return.
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Doctors Without Borders, which employed Spencer in Guinea and has led the effort to combat Ebola in West Africa, said this week that quarantining is neither warranted nor recommended in the absence of symptoms and that as long as a returning staffer remains healthy, “normal life can proceed.”
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Meanwhile, the North Carolina-based international relief group Samaritan’s Purse, which has nearly two dozen expatriate staffers working in Liberia, has chosen to go beyond CDC recommendations.
“We just didn’t have confidence in them, quite frankly,” Samaritan’s Purse Vice President Ken Isaacs said of the CDC guidelines. “We felt more strict protocols were in order, so we created our own.”
The relief group began requiring all returning staff to stay isolated for 21 days, away from family members. The organization houses workers within an hour’s drive of medical facilities, such as Emory University or the NIH, which are equipped to handle Ebola patients, in case someone gets sick. The workers, who are paid their normal salaries, are not allowed to take public transit or touch anyone, and they must take their temperature multiple times a day.
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I think it’s interesting that individual states are doing this, while the federal government and Obama choose to do nothing in this area. Just an observation.
Ebola is without borders too.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I expect FR's own crew will be here shortly
What do you mean?
People like myself and the other freepers, who once we see an article and recognize how FOS the person or group or person making the claim or quote is, then we denounce them with extreme prejudice.
Present.
Doctors without Borders are full of crap.
Hot Zone visitors (including Ebola medical tourists, like Mr. Duncan) will be screened "most" of the time, and the screening consists of a questionnaire asking if they've contacted anyone with Ebola, and they will have their temperatures checked? At 5 (five) airports? The remainder of the time Hot Zone visitors enter through airports where it would be too much of a bother to ask them about Ebola contacts and check their temperatures? Is that the Ebola plan in a nutshell?
(So why not just stop issuing travel visas from the Hot Zone????? That seems about a bazillion times simpler and more effective.)
Bless Samaritan’s Purse & their strict guidelines. I just don’t get this attitude that the people in Africa are seemingly more worthy of protection & consideration than Americans?
I know liberals have a way of dismissing Americans, but if you’ve seen little African children die horrific deaths from Ebola, wouldn’t you want to protect & safeguard ALL children and all people in general? Wouldn’t you want to do everything within your power to keep everyone from getting this?
Too much darn hubris amongst some of these medical personnel.
Doctors Without Borders is also famous for opposing the supposed greedy pharmaceutical companies for trying to patent medications and not have them automatically reproduced as generic in other countries. They claim it withholds “necessary” medications from the world’s needy patients.
They seem to think these “necessary” medications keep being developed by magic and not by researchers and employees who might actually want to feed their own families on occasion.
I guess we have a new use for ankle monitors to track the location of the quarantined people. As we have seen, we cannot take their word they will not leave their homes and wander around the community, potentially spreading the contagion.
We have a small contingent of people who insist that there’s no danger in importing multiple Ebola patients into the USofA, indeed, it is our duty to do so!
Considering that 7 or 8 doctors from Doctors Without Borders have died from Ebola, and the last case brought into the US was one of their docors, I think they should STFU!
I’ve been telling people for quite a while now that if/when Ebola hit either D.C. or New York City, the rules would suddenly change. And now it has and now they have.
Cuomo’s and Christie’s super rapid bipartisan, no-BS Ebola-stopping policy of “we’re quarantining them all” is interesting on a number of fronts:
1. It means these two governors realize how serious this situation is, even if that fool Obama doesn’t. These two know that a few more cases like the current one will grind their big cities to a halt.
2. These two are also daring Obama to come after them. Ordinarily, Obama would have his DOJ sue any other governor for usurping federal authority; he’s done that repeatedly to the southern border states. But Obama’s going to have a REALLY tough time against these two who are in bipartisan league. Not to mention, the country is going to come down REALLY firmly on the side of these two governors and REALLY firmly against Obama. Congressional partisanship has also mostly been rendered moot by their bipartisan action as well.
3. Unless the three other designated Ebola-entry airports take the same measures as New York and New Jersey, then all West African traffic will shift to those three airports, thereby keeping it out of of NY and NJ. So these two governors have set up a win-win situation for themselves and their states: either the other three airports institute their policies, meaning these two governors have performed the national policy leadership that Obama refuses to exercise, OR all of the Ebola traffic shifts out of their two states. If that’s not a stroke of genius, I don’t know what is.
4. Obama has now been totally bypassed and essentially rendered irrelevant on the Ebola issue.
5. Most of the “Progressives” that have been railing against quarantines by viciously attacking anyone calling for such measures will suddenly start supporting the quarantine position (”We’ve ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia”).
Basically, what these two governors have done is a game-changer at the national level.
all the states where the democrats are at are in quarantine from Obola
Quarantine them IN A CAMPER, with a supply of MREs, water, etc, with a non-opening window and an intercom so they can talk to their families. If they come down with the virus, the whole camper can be incinerated, meaning fewer problems with unprotected cleanup crews. Even their wastes will be contained that way.
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