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.
So, the Mexicans are just going to let the Central Americans drag the disease through Mexico?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Government employees don’t make waves. Especially if you are near retirement. Younger ones just do as they are told..................
I hadn’t thought about this scenario. It will happen no doubt.
So are you saying that you’re ready for a One World Government to take care of you now? That’s what the global plan is all about. Glad you’re finally opening your eyes and willing to surrender your freedom. Individual liberty is just a damn foolish idea. If the Founders hadn’t put it in the Bill of Rights nobody would have ever demanded it. /s
I’m totally opposed to the global plan. I’d like nations to exist as independent entities, willing to work together in times of crisis. That would not involve a loss of sovereignty.
They call it the coming tuberculosis pandemic.
Are you serious? A 9/11 truther?
You just reminded me of something I had forgotten.
Back in the 1990's, before Free Republic was a gleam in Jim Robinson's eye, I encountered a website with an interesting piece of information that would be classified as Conspiracy Theory today. Now I'm not so sure.
The story was that back in the 1980's, the CIA had contracted with Disney to make a short animated film, similar to "Fantasia", titled "The Great Dying". There was no spoken dialog in the film because it was intended for international distribution. It was just animated images and music.
One of the scenes in the film was supposedly of a tide of diseased humanity from Central and South America piling up on the Mexican side of the US border and being forcefully repelled by Americans. The image was of a high wall at the border.
The description of that image came back when I read your post.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Not the Messiah, unfortunately, just an itinerant Sultan with a given mission.
He does not pretend to something he is assuredly not. He is not an American and he knows no nation or homeland thus cannot be patriotic. He is loyal to the Umma and to his god.
I’m suspicious.
The Saudis ran 9/11, and Bush covered it up.
Then, Bush toppled Saddam, a secular Muslim, for no good reason.
Then, the Saudis get their agent in the White House, who topples Ghaddafi, Mubarak, and wants to topple Assad—all secular rulers.
Seems like an awful lot of continuity in our foreign policy: the Saudis get what they want.
This thing is certainly going to go world-wide. And it will certainly get to all over the US.
Hide yo’ kids, hide yo husbands, wide yo wife, as a eloquent urban resident once said on TV.
Yes. In a dual class level country like Mexico, the white Spanish elites have no care at all for the brown indian commoners. More dead is better for them.
Interesting. That’ll leave some very rich folks and drug cartels (not that those don’t overlap). That won’t end well for someone...
True, true.
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