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Obama administration considers mandatory quarantine
Daily Mail ^ | 24 October 2014 | David Martosko

Posted on 10/24/2014 3:21:03 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister

The Obama administration is considering imposing a forced quarantine on healthcare workers who return to the United States from the Ebola hot zone of West Africa, after a New York doctor who treated patients there tested positive for the virus on Thursday.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Tom Skinner told Reuters on Friday that a mandatory quarantine is one possible plan under discussion by officials from across the administration.

'There are a number of options being discussed pertaining to the monitoring and mobility of healthcare workers who are returning to the United States from affected countries,' Skinner said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: cdc; contagion; doctors; ebola; ebolaquarantine; ebolascreening; guinea; healthcare; lawmakers; liberia; newyork; obama; obamaebola; pentagon; quarantine; sierraleone; symptoms; unitedstates; us; virus; westafrica; workers
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1 posted on 10/24/2014 3:21:03 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
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To: CorporateStepsister
Bammy ValJar is such a 'tard....
2 posted on 10/24/2014 3:23:21 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CorporateStepsister
Is this plan D or E

Tell me when we get to F-U

3 posted on 10/24/2014 3:24:55 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: CorporateStepsister

He’s “considering” it.

Isn’t that what he always does? Maybe in a few years he’ll instruct one of his czars to come to a decision, if the wind blows that way.


4 posted on 10/24/2014 3:24:59 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Well!

Considering.......hrmm.
Why not consider flight restrictions and closing the damn borders!


5 posted on 10/24/2014 3:25:33 PM PDT by Tx Angel
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To: CorporateStepsister
As long as we don't quarantine people who might actually have the virus.

NO PROFILING ALLOWED!!!

6 posted on 10/24/2014 3:25:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: CorporateStepsister

The faculty lounge folks really are ten fries short of a happy meal. Geeez! Day late and a dollar short doesn’t begin to describe them.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 3:27:20 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: CorporateStepsister

I know a lot of true Americans who wish they could quarantine the Obama “administration”.


8 posted on 10/24/2014 3:30:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: CorporateStepsister
He is considering it.

Here he is considering.........


9 posted on 10/24/2014 3:30:13 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: Paladin2

But only the American healthcare workers, ‘cause they’re likely to be white.

The local blacks from west Africa can come straight in after hand-washing the bodies of their relatives who died of ebola.

It’s a color thing.


10 posted on 10/24/2014 3:31:55 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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To: Tx Angel

He’s got Chris Christie and chomp on his back, now, with their collective mob know how. Screw Texas. It’s hit the tri state now

They can’t care less about flyover, but now it’s about them and tgeir idiocracies where doctors can’t be trusted


11 posted on 10/24/2014 3:32:12 PM PDT by stanne
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"To quarantine or not to quarantine..hmm...When is my next fundraiser? Oh that's right, tomorrow. Then golf the next day. When shall I tee off? 10am or 11am? Hmmmm.."


12 posted on 10/24/2014 3:33:21 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: stanne

My phone keyboard-

Chomp ~ cuomo


13 posted on 10/24/2014 3:34:22 PM PDT by stanne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Quarantining medical providers and others who have worked with Ebola patiens IS profiling, and IS quarantining the people most likely to actually have the virus. Based on how it is transmitted, Ebola is known as a “caregivers disease” — it is far more likely to spread to those who are caregivers to patients than to the general population.


14 posted on 10/24/2014 3:34:53 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/23/who-ebola-update/17767789/

***10,000 ebola cases recorded, but paperwork not being done according to above article means numbers may not be right.

It looks like Doctors Without Borders is suspending care in some of their clinics in Africa to work on ebola research or vaccines...but vaccines not until 2015.

Saw article that MALI next to Guiani is now affected.


15 posted on 10/24/2014 3:38:01 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: CorporateStepsister

They should quarantine Moochie.

She has done enough damage to the nation.


16 posted on 10/24/2014 3:41:42 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Legacy of 'Obama The Divider' - Racial Revenge)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Why would he do that? It’s not like you can get it from someone on the bus or something so this is just violating their rights...


17 posted on 10/24/2014 3:42:07 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

“Ebola is known as a “caregivers disease” “

What I have read lately indicates that family members in Africa end up being the care giver, since there is a shortage of doctors and facilities.


18 posted on 10/24/2014 3:44:15 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Tx Angel

He is a good fortune teller.

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
July 31, 2014
Executive Order — Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 264(b) of title 42, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Amendment to Executive Order 13295. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Acting Surgeon General, and for the purposes set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003, as amended by Executive Order 13375 of April 1, 2005, section 1 of Executive Order 13295 shall be further amended by replacing subsection (b) with the following:

“(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled. This subsection does not apply to influenza.”

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA


19 posted on 10/24/2014 3:47:49 PM PDT by luv2ndamend (Same party, different letter)
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To: CorporateStepsister
Guess he's seen his diminishing numbers.
20 posted on 10/24/2014 3:48:43 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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