Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
I’m actually waaaay more concerned about the 30 some-odd Peace Corps volunteers who are coming home from Liberia ASAP.
There are two of them who are currently quarantined there because they attended a woman who subsequently died of Ebola. They have not so far shown signs of disease. The rest of the crew are due to arive stateside any day now. They have been screened in-country by medical officers who work with Peace Corps, and have been OK’d to travel, but who knows if they are currently incubating the virus???
From the sounds of it, Liberia is a crime-ridden, pestilent hellhole.
Mrs. AV
How?
Moral imperatives exist and should normally be implemented, even at considerable risk.
A contradiction would be if I insisted there was no risk, which I'm not doing at all.
BHO & Co. will find a way to create yet another unnecessary crisis for his own enjoyment.
Simply not worth the risk especially when all the best equipment to treat them could have just as easily be sent there.
I guess we’ll know how this turns out in a couple of weeks.
You mean selfish. If the infected guys chose to remain in Africa to avoid any chance of infecting fellow Americans, that would be selfless.
If we abandon them to their fate because we're (not unreasonably) frightened, that's selfish.
What are these two nut cases doing in Ebola territory? He was there as a doctor trying to help. He accomplished nothing because now he has it and 99% chance will die from it while performing as a human Guinea pig for CDC ghouls
However, I think that while we should not abandon our own, we also should be loathe to putting undue risk of a lethal, communicable, incurable disease to our own as well. And we are faced with a government and a media that has already shown us they cannot be trusted!
Whether the clowns want to admit it or not, they have just imported Ebola to North America from Africa. It’s here and it’s here to stay. A lot of people are going to die.
That doesn't seem to be the case. I am unaware of any evidence at all that Ebola hits mainly or even preferentially the immune-compromised. Being IC doesn't help, of course, but it doesn't seem our immune system, no matter how healthy, is much use against this virus.
He was there serving the people there before the Ebola outbreak. Just so you know.
Yet look what that 2% of the country did with AIDS which takes an intentional effort to spread.
There is no Ebola treatment. Only palliative measures to make dying easier. Millions will be squandered on two nutty “missionaries” who put themselves in harms way, who are going to expire soon.
Great to be a missionary but do it somewhere else
A hospital ship would seem to have advantages for such treatment, but I don’t know enough about how they work to know.
There's nothing covert about his muslim terrorist leanings.
Correction!!!!
340 Peace Corps volunteers from Ebola stricken countries in West Africa are returning to U.S. soil!!!!!
Do I trust the CDC to follow them for the requisite time it takes to tell if they have the virus or not???
No. Much better to demonize a Christian doctor from Samaritan’s Purse.
Have they potentially exposed others to undiagnosed, self-reported illness??? Who knows.
Mrs. AV
We are not abandoning them. They made the choice on their own free will to go. They should be selfless and stay put rather than endanger more lives with an incurable virus.
I agree with you. We may also be able to learn something from their cases, which would be impossible under African conditions.
One of them (the woman volunteer) received the experimental serum, and the other (the doctor) did not. So, allowing for gender differences, that might give a clue about what is effective and what is not.
When the pandemic spreads across America, the anti-CHRIST in the white hut will laugh and say "never let a crisis go to waste".
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