Posted on 10/11/2014 2:10:15 PM PDT by opentalk
(CNSNews.com) - Both Homeland Security Secretary Secretary Jeh Johnson and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said on Wednesday that 150 people a day arrive in the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, the three West African countries that have been hit by the Ebola virus.
..."The number of travelers is relatively small. We're talking about 150 per day," Frieden told a news conference on Wednesday. He announced that questionnaires and temperature checks will begin at five major U.S. airports that handle "95 percent of all the 150 travelers per day who arrive from these three countries"
One hundred-fifty passengers a day from West Africa works out to more than a thousand a week (1,050), 4,500 a month, and 54,750 a year
Given the 21-day incubation period for Ebola and the 150 people coming in each day, that means that at any given time there could be 21 x 150 people in the U.S. who could be asymptomatically incubating Ebola, and who are free to wander around the country.
...All passengers flying out of West African countries already undergo temperatures checks and answer questions about their contact with Ebola patients, but the screening doesn't always work, as the case of Thomas Eric Duncan proves
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Accept no, repeat no passport holders from the affected countries. My God, we turned away the sick at Ellis Island. Should we do less now?
You can bet there is enough vaccine stashed somewhere for the “indispensable” people. The 99.9% don’t matter.
Peachy! I feel much safer already. (do i need a sarc tag?)
150 possible Ebola carriers arriving per day.
There needs to be a holding facility, i.e., hotel (FEMA camp) run by armed disease control staff, where these people can incubate for 22 days after arrival.
If they don’t show symptoms in 22 days (incubation period plus one) then they are free to continue their journey.
If they even get the sniffles in that period, then it’s off to infectious solitary isolation for a month.
This is sooo easy.
Ask every traveler if they have been to these countries in the last however many (21)days. Tell those who have that they will face a quarantine of 30 days upon arrival in the US, at a nominal expense. Or, they can wait until that same period is up and fly then.
I can't make it any simpler.
And where are you going to put 4,500 per month?
In the early 1980’s when AIDS came to the forefront, Haitians were prevented from entering the USA when they were thought to be carriers.
I know he is.
And if “only” one tenth of one percent have ebola, that is still 4.5 people per month entering who have ebola.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
I had forgotten about that. Seems reasonable. Keep it contained. Not a hard concept to understand or buy into.
Thanks for reminding us.
Kerry could have the dubious honor of owning the quote for the ages.
Lol naje it the bawney frank play closet..
We the infidels are expendable..
Please repost this everywhere. There was no outcry then, it was just needed to be done. Haiti didn’t implode.
Many will remember when that happened and how civilized it was.
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