Posted on 10/16/2014 5:41:06 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Dozens of health care workers who had contact with the man who died of Ebola in Dallas were asked Thursday to sign legal documents in which they agreed to stay home, as authorities across the nation ramped up efforts to limit the virus' spread.
The documents ask the 75 health care workers who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan to agree not to go to public places or use mass transit, according to Judge Clay Jenkins, top administrator for Dallas County. The agreements are binding legal documents that can be enforced with a variety of remedies, Jenkins said, though he repeatedly declined to elaborate about specific punishments when asked by reporters and expressed confidence that everyone would comply.
"From 21 days after their last exposure, we are agreeing that they are not going to go on any form of public conveyance - any sort of public transportation," Jenkins said. "We are agreeing that they won't go where people congregate - public spaces - and we are agreeing that they will self-monitor and allow us to monitor them twice a day."
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I was quarantined in the 40s because of scarlet fever.
My brother had it and my mother and I were also quarantined.(My father had died)
She was on her own——no pay and groceries dropped off——nothing went out-—I was too young to remember how trash was handled..
A quarantine sign was posted on the door and the address was published.
It was inconvenient but no big deal.
People didn’t whine in those days.
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Interesting. We will see the continued repercussions of patient “0”. The 1:2 ratio might climb. The vectors have not been contained. The costs are rising. The resources dedicated to containment are immense. The disruptions of daily life for many in America ripple through the republic, mostly peripherally at this time.
I wouldn’t sign the damned forms without my lawyer looking at them first.
Did they all use the same pen to sign??, Just asking...
The Republicans collaborators are worse than the Democrats, so we are better off with Democrats in charge of the collapse.
There, accurized it for ya.
My father lost his father 1940 -- meningitis. I think that overall, America has really lost awareness of what pestilence really means. We assume we'll take a couple of pills and be OK. Well, it ain't necessarily so.
And still no keeping people from affected western African countries out of the US.
Hey guns, just a thought...
The idea of isolation camps is a good one, and it successfully tamped down an outbreak. But what if you put 25 people in an isolation camp, 10 have Ebola, 15 didn’t when they went in. But now 6 of them get infected due to contact with the 10 who would have broken with Ebola anyway. See the conundrum?
I was born in 1932,my brother in 1935,and my father died in 1938 of tuberculosis.
My brother got the Scarlet Fever during the war years. The doctor couldn’t find a bed available in the hospital,which would have allowed me go to school and my mother go to work.
Tough times——and now I’m a spoiled Senior. :-).
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Thanks for putting in writing one of the most insane political philosophies to have ever been expressed.
There’s no way they all obey quarantine. There’s always some idiot democrat for whom the rule do not apply.
Leave Nancy Snyderman alone!!
No! Immediate quarantine. We’ve seen two cases already where a self imposed quarantine didn’t work.
Scooter Libby does not.
lol. I’ve got about -1000000000 faith in ANY govt by this time. So I could just see them dropping thsse things off and letting the people mail them back in after they lick the envelope and stamp.
Get a load of this! Jenkins (((ping)))
Here is the article I found.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29654002
Ebola outbreak: How Nigeria is beating the killer virus
With a population of more than 170 million, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and there were fears that Ebola would take hold when a Liberian-American arrived with the disease in July.
Instead, along with much smaller Senegal, Nigeria is now on the brink of being clear of the virus for a 42-day period at which point the World Health Organization (WHO) can declare it Ebola-free.
The outcome could so easily have been far uglier, and the fact that the news is happier is due to an astonishing story of medical detective work.
Jailing them would only infect the other prisoners. Shooting them would splatter blood everywhere and would cause riots. Maybe obola can write them a sternly worded letter if they're caught going on a soup run. Wanna bet they all rushed out to the nearest Walmart to pick up supplies for the next three weeks. Nevermind WHO recommends 42 days and there's still more days after that.
It takes out the staff at a hospital but leaves the building intact.
I was watching the hearings this morning, and one gal suggested that the ebola nations should be required to have a quarantine station set up for those citizens wishing to leave the country to occupy for 21 days to prove they are free of the disease before they can leave for any other country. Sounded good to me.
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