Posted on 10/08/2014 8:17:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This really shouldn’t surprise anyone. If meager prospects for employment at home lead scores of Central American parents to send their children on a perilous thousand-mile journey north alone or with vile human traffickers, the likelihood of imminent, horrific, mass death will surely have the same effect. At least, that is what some in the Pentagon apparently believe.
Via The Weekly Standard, Department of Defense News reported on Wednesday that Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, fears that the self-evident ability of the American medical system to successfully cope with Ebola will lead millions of Central American residents to make refugees of themselves and head toward the United States.
Kelly said that, if Ebola did reach Central America, it is likely to expect the virus to expand exponentially and to “rage” as it has in West Africa where officials now believe up to 1.4 million may contract the disease before 2015.
This is particularly possible scenario if the disease gets to Haiti or Central America, he said. If the disease gets to countries like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, it will cause a panic and people will flee the region, the general said.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”
Also, transnational criminal networks smuggle people and those people can be carrying Ebola, the general said. Kelly spoke of visiting the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with U.S. embassy personnel. At that time, a group of men “were waiting in line to pass into Nicaragua and then on their way north,” he recalled.
Health officials have sought to halt the spread of the disease by preventing air passengers from traveling out of West African nations if they are symptomatic or have a fever of 101.5 degrees or more. If those symptoms are not present, officials have said, the risk of transcontinental transmission via airliner is minimal.
Some public health officials are, however, voicing concerns that this particular new strain of the hemorrhagic fever is unpredictable and evolving rapidly. Furthermore, prospective air travelers from any of the affected West African areas know they are being screened and can easily mask their own symptoms in the early stages of infection.
“A person could pass body temperature checks performed at the airports by taking ibuprofen or any common analgesic,” The Los Angeles Times revealed on Tuesday. “And prospective passengers have much to fear from identifying themselves as sick, said Kim Beer, a resident of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, who is working to get medical supplies into the country to cope with Ebola.”
The potential disincentive for passengers to reveal their own symptoms was echoed by Sheka Forna, a dual citizen of Sierra Leone and Britain who manages a communications firm in Freetown. Forna said he considered it “very possible” that people with fever would medicate themselves to appear asymptomatic.
It would be perilous to admit even nonspecific symptoms at the airport, Forna said in a telephone interview. “You’d be confined to wards with people with full-blown disease.”
The news that a Spanish nurse contracted the virus outside of the West African hot zone and through only minimal contact with an infected patient raises the concerns that this Ebola outbreak could bloom into a pandemic.
As opposed to the current massive migration? We will have to station tanks at the border, but our resident in chief will roll out the red carpet.
NO MAS!...............
Yeah, but think of all the job openings there will be in Central America. No need to travel north!
No more illegals. We know the master plans you have for them you POS traitors...
Send them all to DC to wipe out the scum...
Sure, come on in and go to an American Hospital. Help yourselves to all the services, including the minibar. The Taxpayers are ready, willing and able to pick up your medical bills and expenses, after all we don't have any debts other than that pesky $17 TRILLION. And, Thank you, 0bamacare!
/SARC
Si, se puede!!
they are already here.
RE: they already are here
With Ebola?
And what do they call the stream of “children” that are presently coming from Central America now?
A trickle?
Just what we need...EBOLA for everyone!
We may very well be witness to the end of the United States of America as we know it.........
And I feel fine....
Like Fire Ants doused with gasoline, they would just move to a new location and begin anew............
THE BEATLES
“I Feel Fine”
Baby’s good to me, you know
She’s happy as can be, you know
She said so
I’m in love with her and I feel fine
Baby says she’s mine, you know
She tells me all the time, you know
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I’m so glad that she’s my little girl
She’s so glad, she’s telling all the world
That her baby buys her things, you know
He buys her diamond rings, you know
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Baby says she’s mine, you know
She tells me all the time, you know
She said so
I’m in love with her and I feel fine
I’m so glad that she’s my little girl
She’s so glad, she’s telling all the world
That her baby buys her things, you know
He buys her diamond rings, you know
She said so
She’s in love with me and I feel fine
She’s in love with me and I feel fine, mmm, mmm
Pero no nos.........
REM
“It’s the End of the World as we Know It (And I Feel Fine)
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake
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Feeling pretty psyched
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It’s the end of the world as we know it
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It’s the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
The other night I dreamt a nice continental drift divide
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Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
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It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
(It’s time I had some time alone)
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