EBOLA PICTURE GETS UGLIER AND UGLIER

boblonsberry.com ^ | 10/16/14 | Bob Lonsberry

[Scotswife]

Duncan lied to board the plane & he lied during his first trip to the hospital.

While this post is excellent - I disagree with placing full responsibility on the hospital.

Duncan’s deceptiveness & lack of judgement placed everyone in harm’s way.
From that point on our lack of preparedness took over.

[Rummyfan]

The second nurse to be announced as sick with ebola, concerned about her temperature and an approaching trip to Ohio, called the CDC, informed the person she spoke of her work with an ebola patient and her own fever, and asked if she should fly on a commercial airliner or not. Think that through. You’ve been around an ebola guy. Coincidentally, a co-worker of yours has just been in the news for coming down with ebola, and you’ve got a fever, and you want to know if you should fly commercial. That’s the question laid before a CDC official. That’s a question almost everyone in America would have gotten right.

Shame on the nurse and shame on the CDC. 'Gee, I've been exposed to ebola. Gee, I'm running a slight temp. Gee, the CDC says it's okay since I'm seven-tenths of a degree below the cut-off, so I'll go ahead and get on the plane and expose, potentially, another hundred people'. Is there no one with any common sense anymore?

[Rummyfan]

The Brainless Trust....

[12th_Monkey]

the sick nurse hopping on the plane has put Ebola out of reach of the CDC and the federal government....even if we had a competent one.

Ebola, thanks to this nurse and the airlines, will spread like wildfire now.

All I can say is I wish I would have started prepping in 2008

[Robe]

How does that happen?????

I believe it's call “Chaos Theory”

[Rummyfan]

Neither martial law or civil war have to result in a viable dictatorship and the declaration of Muslim supremacy in the United States – that does not have to be Obama’s winning strategy. He can lose. He can die. I don’t think he cares

I don't know but I can certainly see a coup in the offing, where it's announced that obozo is medically incpapable of performing the duties of the office etc etc....

[silverleaf]

“our stupidity” don’t kill a patient

Duncan was dead man walking by the time he came clean with the hospital

no, I don’t believe he was completely honest with them from the first visit anymore than he was honest at the airport of departure

notes from doctor number 2 indicate he replied “no” when asked if he had been in contact with anyone ill with ebola- that had to be a lie since both the women he carried AND her brother died from ebola before Duncan fled

[ClearCase_guy]

Biden to the rescue!

[xzins]

Rotflol!

[jjsheridan5]

“Drs and nurses in africa do not largely avoid this. It has decimated their ranks...”

Exactly, this article is ridiculous insofar as it’s comparisons of modern health care with “healthcare” in West Africa. It makes the whole article lose credibility.

On a per case basis, health care workers in W. Africa have been far more successful at avoiding this disease than have those in the US. And it isn't even close. Had they behaved as lackadaisically, and with as little common sense, their health care workers wouldn't have lasted days, let alone months. As pathetic as it is, their level of responsibility has far exceeded ours (although they have virtually zero resources at their disposal, whereas ours our essentially limitless).

[PROCON]

[palmer]

Ebola, thanks to this nurse and the airlines, will spread like wildfire now.

Nobody on that plane is going to get ebola.

[PLD]

about 30 miles from WACO.

flight with nurse who has Ebola

Posted: Oct 15, 2014 10:39 PM CDT

By Taylor Durd

BELTON - Two Belton ISD students were on the same flight Monday as Dallas nurse, Amber Vinson, who tested positive for Ebola, Belton ISD confirmed Wednesday night. The parents of the two students, who attend Sparta Elementary School and North Belton Middle School, have decided to keep those kids out of school for 21 days.

Belton ISD held a press conference Wednesday evening assuring the district was safe for all children to attend school. Bell County Health Department Epidemiologist Lacey Sanders said they do not expect these two students to have any symptoms of the virus because of where they were seated on the plane.

“She was not symptomatic on the airplane at the time. So the CDC and the Texas Department of Health Services and myself think the possibility of any kind of spread of it is almost nonexistent,” said Sanders.

The Bell County Health Department said they are waiting on official written notice from the CDC for a reclassification of those student’s risk levels.

Several concerned parents early Wednesday evening were wrestling with whether to send their children to school.

“There’s a risk. Low risk, high risk, it doesn’t matter. It’s a risk—and that’s a risk as a parent that I’m not willing to take for my child,” said Breanna Sherburne, a parent of a student attending Sparta Elementary.

Belton ISD sent out a letter to parents at Sparta Elementary School and North Belton Middle School early Wednesday evening informing them that two students were on that flight with the second nurse who tested positive for Ebola.

http://www.kxxv.com/story/26799311/belton-isd-students-to-stay-out-of-school-after-flight-with-nurse-who-has-ebola

[Texas Fossil]

Bump

[FrdmLvr]

This one truly made me lol.

[Marie]

“Nobody on that plane is going to get ebola.”

I agree with you.

[exit82]

http://www.senate.gov

http://www.house.gov

OK, Freepers, it is time for action.

More is needed NOW than just posting here.

Call your reps in DC and tell them the flights from West Africa through any hub and admittance of anyone from these countries into the USA HAS TO STOP!

The place to fight this disease is at its source, not here.

The “screening” process at our airports is a joke and ineffective. 150 people a day are coming here from West Africa—that is 4500 a month. Some may show a fever and yet may be carrying the virus. The second nurse is proof of that.

Our healthcare system will shutdown if this continues.

We already have cases in Kansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Texas.

The first order of business of a government is to protect their citizens. And this government is failing to do so.

Make the calls.

The family you save may be your own.

[Brother Cracker]

[Sooth2222]

“Nobody on that plane is going to get ebola.”

"I agree with you.

Allow me to disagree. It is unlikely that anyone on that flight is going to contract Ebola.

It is not impossible.

(I can't calculate the probabilities -- but neither can the CDC.)

[Ken H]

On a per case basis, health care workers in W. Africa have been far more successful at avoiding this disease than have those in the US. And it isn't even close. Had they behaved as lackadaisically, and with as little common sense, their health care workers wouldn't have lasted days, let alone months. As pathetic as it is, their level of responsibility has far exceeded ours (although they have virtually zero resources at their disposal, whereas ours our essentially limitless).

All of the 230+ deaths among health care workers have been in west Africa. All but 3 of the 400 cases contracted have also been in w. Africa =>

Around the globe, about 400 health care staff have contracted Ebola, and more than 230 have died.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2014/10/15/ebola-has-already-killed-more-than-200-doctors-nurses-and-other-healthcare-workers/