Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
An American doctor stricken by Ebola in West Africa arrived home for treatment in Atlanta on Saturday, and U.S. government officials are urging the public to remain confident in the health-care system’s ability to keep the deadly disease isolated.
A charity organization, Samaritan’s Purse, said two Americans in serious condition with the disease were being evacuated: Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who had been treating Ebola victims in Liberia, and Nancy Writebol, a missionary from Charlotte.
Brantly and Writebol have been hospitalized in serious condition in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Brantly was brought back to the United States first, in a specially equipped “air ambulance” aircraft that landed Saturday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, in the northwest Atlanta suburbs, according to news reports.
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They're still trying to bring the gal here. And given any chance Obama will keep bringing in more. Just to give himself some positive news stories. Confident that any accidents won't receive much coverage. The folks wanting him sent elsewhere in Atlanta were wrong in pointing to the CDC as a better destination. They should have sent him to CNN HQ. They couldn't hide any mistakes there so Obama would ensure every precaution possible was taken. And the MSM fanboys would have some skin in the game.
Easy to say when it's not you or one of yours ....
And you??..
24 years in uniform. It also taught me that some folks boast about their sacrifice and others simply do what needs done.
My original stays the same - it's easy to say someone ought to sacrifice/be sacrificed when it isn't personally affecting you or yours. Tell me that you sent a wife or child into seclusion so they wouldn't infect someone else and I'll credit you with the integrity of your word. Until then, it's only empty words with no impact on your life.
Ate you saying, then, that CDC should not bring any samples of pathogens back to the US for study, period? Why are you afraid of the CDC treating an infected American doctor, but you’re not afraid of the CDC working with vials of the same infectious agent?
An Ebola break-out in a large city could turn residential sky scrappers into death traps...
Ebola’s virus can live outside the body for days - - haunting elevator buttons, grocery cart handles and air conditioning duck work...
High density inner city neighborhoods will be epicenters of the slaughter.
If I made the decision to go on a dangerous mission into west Africa where 100 health care personnel have been infected and came down with Ebola . I would not come back to the states and endanger others, end of story, have a nice day.
There you go boasting again. How about making that decision for your wife/daughter/son/parents?
I would like to believe that I would make the right decision - not having been there, I can only hope. Boasting is for those that "have", not for those who claim that they "would". There is a difference and you seem to be incapable of discerning it.
See, the story isn't really ended until you actually do something boast-worthy then tell us about it. The "Legend in his own mind" phrase comes to mind.
I would like to think that, if my wife were kidnapped, and the deal was for me to show up to be killed that she would live, I would show up early. Will never really know. On the other hand, I have trouble imagining myself telling those who you so blithely say should stay the hell away as it's the "right thing" to shut up and die quietly so I can be safe - my wife/daughter/son/grand-kids mean so much to me that I really don't know if I could do it. Anyone who claims they could is either an ignorant liar or a sociopath with no value for life or conception of love.
Ball just bounced into your court. Might as well pick it up and go home - surely you can catch the drift that without actual choices to be made, then making them, it's all just an exercise in word-play.
I grew up in Africa and was infected with a blood borne disease. I was treated for this disease in the appropriate ward if an African bush clinic run by Southern Baptist missionaries.
I wasn’t allowed to travel back to the states until I could prove I no longer had the disease.
This was in the 70’s though. When most of the government bureaucrats had more clues than ‘compassion’.
1. Are they, or their families, big democratic donors?
2. Who made the decision to bring them here?
3. What threats were made to orchestrate the propaganda campaign that "bringing them here is completely safe". What grants, positions, etc. were threatened?
4. Who made the decision that it was worth risking the US population, and possibly the entire population of the western hemisphere, to bring these two here?
5. How many more will follow - is this just the opening of the floodgates?
Yep - they say on one hand that it might spread all over the place. On the other hand, they express confidence that it will be contained.
I say, "Murphy was an optimist - plan accordingly".
IMHO Obama knows that the likelihood of a case appearing in this hemisphere isn’t zero. There is a direct flight from Murtala Muhammed airport in Lagos, where Patrick Sawyer crashed out, to Atlanta.
If it does appear in/around Atlanta the finger will be pointed at Samaritan’s purse and Franklin Graham for allowing it to be brought here.
Obama is looking for a scapegoat. And Franklin Graham is relying on Emory and the CDC to ensure that he doesn’t subsequently become one.
Hope this works out for Graham.
Yup.
And amazingly enough, it never even occurred to my parents to demand I be brought back to the US and be treated. Because THEY didn’t want to take the chance of it spreading here either!
They should have treated him in Africa.
I too was in the military and know self-sacrifice as well. These two Goody Two-Shoes had absolutely nothing to do with the military and their 'self-scrifice' was more an act of self-agrandizement. As for the military, I suspect they probably loath it, and are nothing but a couple of ultra libs. If they really want to serve mankind, then they should've stayed over there, rather than risking a pandemic here.
I have heard the party line that ebola can only be spread through contact and fluids, but to that I have a few questions:
If that is so, then why the full 'spacesuit' garb?
How did these two supposed 'professionals' become infected"
What threats and blackmail were imposed to get the spokesmen to parrot the Baghdad Bob response that everything is OK?
The ending of the movie 'Hot Zone' I believe was a napalm stike on the infected areas. Are we prepared to do this?
I disagree, you don’t fly highly infectious decease across continents if you can help it. They were perfectly capable constructing and supplying the necessary personal and equipment for treatment in Africa.
Equipment which could then be reused in the treatment of other Africans.
Bringing these two do-gooders here to Emory University for treatment__________
I see it as big CDC publicity stunt that is oh so very politically correct because it involves Africa. CDC is trying to get more Federal funding this way. More bureaucratic empire building. More squandering of taxpayer money. You can bet more Ebola research grant money handed out and more Ebola related Federal drones and Federal research scientists hired. Many will be black affirmative action hires due to this being an African disease
cui bono.... follow the money for your answers
It would have been far safer just to send all the experimental equipment and volunteer personal required to Africa.
There was no reason to intentionally bring the diseases to his hemisphere.
I kind of agree, and the sick part is, if the worse does happen the CDC will end up with lots of money, so they can’t really loses.
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