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CDC Chief: US Won't 'Seal Borders' Against Ebola
Newser ^ | August 3 2014 | Polly Davis Doig

Posted on 08/03/2014 1:38:28 PM PDT by PoloSec

(Newser) – The US is treating the American doctor who contracted Ebola, and isn't about to turn tail on the virus. "Ebola’s scary, and it’s understandable that with a deadly disease, people are concerned," says CDC director Tom Frieden, but for those who would have us turn victims away, "the plain truth is, we can stop Ebola. We know how to control it. We’re not going to hermetically seal the borders of the US. We’re reliant and interdependent with the world for travel, for trade, for the economy, for our families and communities." Frieden tells ABC, via Politico, that the CDC is sending 50 staffers to West Africa because, he says, "The single most important thing we can do to protect Americans is to stop this disease at the source in Africa."


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To: PoloSec; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; All
Pesident Obama’s recently updated Executive Order gives the CDC organization the authorization to detain anyone suspected of having been infected with a contagious disease, and the power to "MANDATE THE APPREHENSION AND DETENTION OF AMERICANS WHO MERELY SHOW SIGNS OF RESPIRATORY ILLNESS".

CDC has the legal authority to detain any person who may have an infectious disease that is specified by Executive Order to be quarantinable.

Such “quarantinable” diseases may include Cholera, Smallpox, Plague, SARS, Hemorrhagic fevers (like Ebola), and now even “respiratory illnesses” that may have symptoms similar to those of deadly viruses.

It was no accident that President Obama added the Executive Order amendment this morning. They can downplay the seriousness of Ebola all they want, but the fact is that hundreds of medical workers, including the World Health Organization, have failed to contain its spread.

In anticipation of the virus hitting U.S. shores, President Obama has set the legal authorization to essentially declare martial law in stone. The U.S. military, including the National Guard, also has contingency plans in place.

The minute this virus is detected in “the wild” on U.S. soil these directives will be executed.

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41 posted on 08/03/2014 2:27:11 PM PDT by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: molson209

These people in charge sure do think they can outsmart God.

And we’re stuck with the consequences.


42 posted on 08/03/2014 2:29:36 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: mdmathis6

You are correct. It takes only one not very ill flight attendant or traveler to share infected body secretions and an endemic breakout in vulnerable communities will occur. It won’t be epidemic since ebola is not transmitted by a pneumonic process. However even a limited endemic outbreak will cause panic and will be an economic disaster.Wonder if Obama would mind interrupting his birthday golf outing and explain why , despite his phone and pen, he is still allowing commercial flights in and out of endemic areas.


43 posted on 08/03/2014 2:37:45 PM PDT by allendale
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To: informavoracious; Yehuda; left that other site; cyn; 444Flyer; null and void
To seal borders against Ebola would require the willingness to close borders at all.

And that's just not the nature of the beast, as we have observed for decades.

Therefore, if (or rather when) the Feds decide to [ostensibly] respond to the cries of We the People for a wall/fence/alligator mote, rest assured it won't be for the benefit of lawful Americans.

I won't be the least surprised at the direction in which the tower guards will be firing.

The cut in embassy services in Tel Aviv for Israelis seeking visa to the US, should be a hint. Hashgacha Pratis.

"Everything comes to teach us something, but very often we just see these things as obstacles that are preventing us from doing what we want."

http://www.mpaths.com/2014/07/chassidic-insight.html

44 posted on 08/03/2014 2:37:56 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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moat


45 posted on 08/03/2014 2:38:49 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Nachum

IMHO this is what the zombie violent movies have been bringing us toward for a decade now. The stories are meant to numb us toward the slaughter of “infected” groups of people who’s mere contact with you will usher in your own death. Government hit squads mowing down infested carriers in the streets.


46 posted on 08/03/2014 2:40:02 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: tet68

I’m not a man, but I’ll take the Kewpie doll ;-)


47 posted on 08/03/2014 2:43:12 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: Kartographer

“The virus does not pass through the air by coughing or sneezing so that is a huge help.”

My wife pointed this out. I saw “Dr Nancy Snyderman” talking about how “It doesn’t pass through the air so air travel is completely safe” but in the very same segment they showed how they were outfitting the air ambulance with a negative pressure capsule to contain the patient being transported.

So, obviously the air ambulance doesn’t believe that there is no mechanism by which ebola is transmitted by coughing/sneezing.

So which is it?


48 posted on 08/03/2014 2:43:33 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: PoloSec

OMG...

Truly speechless...


49 posted on 08/03/2014 2:43:34 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: BunnySlippers
" I don’t think ebola is a threat in the US now. Nor is it a threat now."

Pardon...?

50 posted on 08/03/2014 2:46:51 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: PoloSec; All

All it would take is for a single person to become infected by these two and panic would ensue. Malls would become empty as the streets of Liberia today. The economy would literally grind to a halt.

IMO, precisely what obama wants.


51 posted on 08/03/2014 2:47:03 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: PoloSec

How difficult would it be for a terrorist group to obtain some ebola contaminated blood (far easier than obtaining some nuclear material I suspect ) and infect some of the children flooding accross our southern border? Think about it. Our government would spread the virus all over the country. Wake up America. A perfect storm is brewing.


52 posted on 08/03/2014 2:49:54 PM PDT by TheDane
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To: mdmathis6
Passing the joint should kill 1/2 the Democrat base off. And being that the border
is right there on CA, it shouldn't be to difficult to figure out.

Then there's Mexico and open Borders. People would be flooding over for care and
dropping all over the place. Great Plan Obama!

53 posted on 08/03/2014 2:54:03 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: PoloSec

Ebola is transmitted the same way AID’S is, in this manner:
“Contact with infected blood and bodily fluids such as mucus and puss”.

Staphylococcus is spread in the same manner.

Do not touch anyone who has any of these things nor allow them to serve food or beverages.

Ditto for delivering medical care.

N95 masks have no possible, probable or demonstrably measurable effect, in terms of prevention.

Won’t kill you to wear em but, if you go that far then get nitrile gloves as well.

Nitrile gloves are easy put on, provide a barrier protection and enable very good tactile feedback to your hands and fingers....


54 posted on 08/03/2014 2:57:42 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: mdmathis6
Ebola would go thru the homosexual and drug abuser crowds faster than the ACLU can mount a lawsuit. Even lesbians who wouldn’t be exposed to AIDS normally would be at greater risk for this disease. PC politics is about to be smacked in the face with reality!

You evidently do not understand much or anything about how the Ebola virus is spread and how it infects people. Once a person is infected with the Ebola virus and starts exhibiting the symptoms of the disease, the disease (Ebola) not being transmittable until after symptoms manifest, they are going to be way too sick and very sick way too fast by the time they are capable of infecting others to be engaging in sex or much of anything else for that matter.

Ebola is not a disease with a very long incubation period (only up to 21 days at a maximum but not proven to be transmittable human to human until after symptoms appear) nor has it been proven to have any sort of or any substantial transmission via sexual activity. Yes, a man who has had the Ebola virus and survived, their seamen and other bodily fluids can still contain the virus for up to 60 days, but then someone recovering from Ebola is going to be very weak and likely very impaired during that time and not very likely to be engaging in sex, hetoro or homo while recovering.

HIV/AIDS is a viral disease that works very differently from Ebola. People who contract HIV/AIDS can have a high viral load and are capable of transmitting it to others long before, sometimes years before the carrier first starts showing symptoms of it. And even when the first symptoms appear, they come on gradually and can be easily kept hidden from others for quite some time.

A person with Ebola is OTHO going to be very visibly sick very soon after onset. They are going to have debilitating headaches and severe body aches, a very high fever, and will very soon start vomiting and have uncontrollable bouts of diarrhea, their kidneys and liver soon start to stop functioning and they sometimes bleeding through the nose and ears as their blood vessels break down.

55 posted on 08/03/2014 2:59:48 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: PoloSec

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Frieden

He’s Bloombergs SS Chief in the war on Tobacco and Sugary drinks, a democrat, and a marxist com-symp.

FRIEDEN WOULD RATHER RISK AN EBOLA PANDEMIC IN THE USA THAN PISS OFF HIS MARXIST MASTERS


56 posted on 08/03/2014 3:01:33 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: MD Expat in PA

EBOLA TERROR AS PASSENGER DIES AT LONDON AIRPORT

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-terror-gatwick-passenger-collapses-3977051

And so it begins


57 posted on 08/03/2014 3:07:57 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Rome2000

According to news sources...test results were negative for Ebola.


58 posted on 08/03/2014 3:11:30 PM PDT by halo66
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To: mdmathis6
I am not sure why you keep posting this nonsense. Ebola will go through ANY crowd. It can be transmitted by putting your hand on the dried sweat of someone who is infected. Counter tops, hand rails, door handles, ATM machines, pick any of the huge number of surfaces multiple humans contact daily.

It isn't a disease limited to a group on the basis of sexual behaviour--medical personnel are catching this stuff.

Why you keep implying it is the coming scourge of the homosexuals and druggies is beyond me. Your kids could catch it off of playground equipment if one of their playmates is infected and sweating out the virus. Get a clue.

60 posted on 08/03/2014 3:14:43 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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