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.
After my time...........
Dang, you’re old. ;)
Maybe this will close the border? NOPE! Progressives need them Brown Voters (even if the vote illegally) Now more than at any other time—as Americans are wising up to their Commie plans. That and Ebola will help Obama cancel the elections and rule by decree. He can appoint congress people then. Ebola will get rid of excess people on welfare and he can blame A) Bush, B) Republican Racists, and C) The Tea Party/ Fox News.
Obamacare Will Help Ebola To Spread
Government ignores all protocol on containing Ebola
http://www.infowars.com/obamacare-will-help-ebola-to-spread/
Obama sez...
“That’s a great idea...why didn’t I think that? Valerie...let’s send that Dallas Ebola patient down to Costa Rica. Let him shake some hands and cough on as many people as possible. We can get a real stampede going towards the southern border. We’ll have millions of new voters here by November.”
“Uh, do what? The guy is dead? Already? Damn...you mean we couldn’t even keep HIM alive? And chance we can send his body. .dump him in the street in San Jose?”
“No? Well..who else do we have that’s infected? Do we need to send someone to Africa to catch the bug? Then send’em to Costa Rica? How long will that take?”
“That’s right! I just sent 4000 troops over there. So... We should have plenty of infected troops pretty quick. Once we find out they’re sick...just station them down there at the recruiting office or something.”
“I want infected people down there, and I want them spreading that disease RIGHT NOW!”
no of course not. I just meant not 2 many left to join us
And people are still so stupid they cannot see what is happening around them. It’s time to go to the mall for those designer handbags and clothes......
The Sultan in Wahington believes Ebola to be Allah’s tool for ending the rule of the Infidels in Europe and America and therefore must be successfully brought to America. Perhaps, when an epidemic is in full effect he will reveal himself publicly as the Moslem he is and call for national Conversion to stay the wrath of Allah. Something truly drastic is in the cards for the next two years. Sultans do not give up their thrones after some specified number of years. 40 million more voting Democrats and Ebola would give him anything he wants. Anything at all.
Just little children and good-hearted folks looking for a better life and opportunity in the USA.
The civilized world is going to have to get its act together, drop the idiotic global power plays, and together combat the multiple threats of disease, displaced people, ISIS and other maniacs, and war-mongering by nations that should've learned better by now.
I no longer think it's impossible that the framework of services and stability could collapse if there is a tipping point of too many challenges and shortages of food and supplies. Would the US absorb a terrorist attack now as a "together" nation as we did 911? I doubt it.
40 million more voting Democrats and Ebola would give him anything he wants. Anything at all.
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Or nothing possibly, if Ebola kills enough of the wrong people he may not have anything.
We didn’t screen unaccompanied illegal alien minors and got Enterovirus 68 in 30+ states. On top of TB, scabies, and other diseases.
I wouldn’t trust the CDC to then screen for ebola.
If that were the case then he wouldn't have the forty million new voting Democrats.
If Ebola gets into Central America or the Caribbean then the mass emigration to the USA will increase geometrically and open borders will end America with uncontrollable Ebola and a hundred million new Democrats and if the borders are not closed before that event the opportunity will have passed. The invasion will be irresistible.
The Sultan in Washington has implicitly held out Citizenship and sanctuary from Ebola to all of Latin America.
I wish I knew how many Americans are awake enough to recognize that any new terror attack will be engineered by “our government.”
9/11 was run by the Saudis, and the Saudi involvement was covered up by the “patriotic” Bush. Now we don’t even have a President who pretends to be an American patriot.
Obama just sent a personal envoy to Oklahoma City to THANK a mosque there for the beheading. (Oh, he found some other lame excuse to thank them. They delivered bottles of water or something after a tornado several years ago, or something.)
Amazing that one evil man has had the power to potentially completely destroy us. He is evil and no one is stopping him.
I said in 2008 that the purpose was to destroy America. I don’t think there is much thought beyond that but I do believe that is the goal. I could not believe how many people thought that the messiah had arrived and we would all be living in paradise soon.
I’ll let the Hag have the final comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5eQCVhKluk
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