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CDC: 150 People Enter U.S. Per Day from Ebola-Stricken Countries--or 4,500 Per Month
CNSnews ^ | October 9, 2014 | Susan Jones

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

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; cdc; clowardpiven; ebola; obama; openborders
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To: opentalk

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?


21 posted on 10/11/2014 2:24:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: opentalk

You can bet there is enough vaccine stashed somewhere for the “indispensable” people. The 99.9% don’t matter.


22 posted on 10/11/2014 2:25:19 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: opentalk
He also noted "signs of progress" in West Africa: "For example, we're seeing more safe burials in Liberia.

Peachy! I feel much safer already. (do i need a sarc tag?)

23 posted on 10/11/2014 2:25:51 PM PDT by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: opentalk

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.


24 posted on 10/11/2014 2:25:57 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Bomb ISIS; bomb them again; bomb them again; kill all survivors; take no prisoners.)
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To: opentalk
"150 people a day arrive in the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea"

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.

25 posted on 10/11/2014 2:28:30 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Drink your Ovaltine)
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To: F15Eagle

26 posted on 10/11/2014 2:29:08 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

And where are you going to put 4,500 per month?


27 posted on 10/11/2014 2:30:06 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


29 posted on 10/11/2014 2:31:14 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: F15Eagle

I know he is.


30 posted on 10/11/2014 2:31:19 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: opentalk

And if “only” one tenth of one percent have ebola, that is still 4.5 people per month entering who have ebola.


31 posted on 10/11/2014 2:32:05 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: opentalk

32 posted on 10/11/2014 2:32:42 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: opentalk; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Not to worry. 90% have never even been exposed to 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...

33 posted on 10/11/2014 2:33:41 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I had forgotten about that. Seems reasonable. Keep it contained. Not a hard concept to understand or buy into.

Thanks for reminding us.


34 posted on 10/11/2014 2:38:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: opentalk
"We need airlines to continue to operate in West Africa; and we need borders to remain open," Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.

Kerry could have the dubious honor of owning the quote for the ages.

35 posted on 10/11/2014 2:39:55 PM PDT by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: skeeter

Lol naje it the bawney frank play closet..


36 posted on 10/11/2014 2:42:15 PM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: txrefugee

We the infidels are expendable..


37 posted on 10/11/2014 2:44:20 PM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: opentalk
That's 4500 reasons enough on days one through thirty, and tens of thousands of reasons by day 60.


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38 posted on 10/11/2014 2:45:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


39 posted on 10/11/2014 2:47:07 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: opentalk; All
It would be interesting to know how long this situation concerning people coming from ebola-striken countries has existed. Ebola may not be as contageous as we are inclined to think. (But better to overreact than to be sorry.)
40 posted on 10/11/2014 2:48:12 PM PDT by Amendment10
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