Posted on 10/08/2014 11:32:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa arriving at five U.S. airports as part of a stepped-up response to the Ebola epidemic.
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said an additional layer of screening would begin at New York's JFK International and the international airports in Newark, Washington Dulles, Chicago and Atlanta. He said the new steps would include taking temperatures and would begin Saturday at JFK.
Earnest said the five airports cover the destinations of 94 percent of the people who travel to the U.S. from the three heavily hit countries in West Africa — Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. He estimated that about 150 people would be checked a day under the new procedures.
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lemme guess....
Nome, Alaska
Bangor, Maine
Evansville, Indiana
Santa Fe, NM
Hilo, HI
HOW LAME!
Just shut down flights from those contaminated areas!!!!!!!!
What happens if they are not feverish yet but are incubating? Seems dumb to me, how does that stop ebola? This country is nuts!
On the other hand, our fearless TSA is confiscating knitting needles from grandmothers and testing C-Pap machines for explosives at a near 100% rate. We do have to keep our priorities in order, don’t we?
CNN is already trying to play the race card on the Liberian’s treatment!
This is a perfect opportunity to cough when the TSA agent touches your junk.
More Obama “Hog Wash”!!!
nfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:
“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)
Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University
Which end?...................
If they have a fever as they get off the plane, everyone on the plane needs to be corralled and monitored.
If they do not have a fever as they get off the plane, then symptoms could start later.
Isn’t checking them here one step late?
They should be canceling visa’s and suspending issuing them. Then screen the returning citizens for health. It is crazy to let more possible cases in. This would not hinder the emergency people going back and forth.
What will finally end this issue is that air crews will refuse to fly to those countries. That already happened with the French. West Africa flights are not exactly the hot assignments for air crew anyway…this just makes it even worse.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Pretty much sums it up in a single cartoon. Thanks!
OK .. so let’s say you have a LIberian fleeing to the US for health care. He can’t get here from there in a single flight. He has to go thru Brussels or London. He’s a dual citizen of iIberia and, say, the UK. He can present his UK passport, arriving from London. Or say he’s from Sierra Leone and has dual SL/French passport.
Will he be checked?
They wouldn't check PIT because, despite being an “International” airport, there are few direct international flights to/from Pittsburgh. Certainly none to/from the West Africa countries.
Wow. 94% of people traveling to the U.S. from the hot zones will be checked for fever.
Is that 94 WHOLE percent?
This is my exact question when happening upon this thread right now. So gob-smacked by wondering about it that I haven’t read to the end to see if anyone has offered up a logical answer.
All one has to do is to “beat the clock”, getting to the airport and into the country within a few days of exposure. Then wait another couple of days before heading to the local hospital - Do “they” (powers that be) think we are that easily flamboozled?
If the guy next to you is popping Tylenol and Motrin throughout the flight, you’re doomed.
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