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 ...
More specifically, and as mentioned in related threads, with the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution’s Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate quarantine policy. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphasis added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
My siblings and I were placed in MANDATORY quarantine — complete with a big sign on the front door — for both measles and chicken pox when we were kids. The local health people came around to monitor us before releasing it.
But then, that was when America was STILL SANE and the president was someone actually concerned about the country!
The time, expense, and depletion of medical resources in the US to contain the disease is insane.
But then, that was when America was STILL SANE and the president was someone actually concerned about the country!
I was just thinking the same thing. I can remember a big ole red MANDATORY quarantine sign on our house too. I can not remember if it was for the measles or chicken pox. We had both at our house.
Here he is telling us that im f-ing you but Ill try harder
I’d like to say, “it’s about time”, but I fear it still is not good enough.
Basically, keep them OUT of the country, period. Quarantine them somewhere else, maybe next to the airports, maybe at the consulate.
This is getting insane.
What happens when no health care workers are willing to go to Africa anymore?
Exactly! Why let these people on a plane to the US?
As someone indicated, the horse is already out of the barn by then!
So they carefully quarantine the IDed traveller - but then he has exposed a hundred people to the virus! Great! They get to leave and poison everyone else!
You are right - a ship would be great, but still preferably at the OTHER shores, not ours - how are they going to transport people to these ships?
more wishy washy
so much blah blah blah
So?
I care about our people, frankly. We *have* to choose, as we always do but liberals do not acknowledge.
Which is more important? OUR country, that’s what. That is the choice.
Honestly, though, maybe some would still be willing - they’d just have to know their return time is not going to be quite as soon as they originally thought.
Mali has a jihadist presence let’s hope those nutcases don’t cause our troops problems. One nutcase was willing to plant a bomb in his underwear and blow his privates to kingdom come. They wouldn’t be beyond attacking and killing doctors and nurses in addition to soldiers, or possibly try to infect soldiers somehow.
They must be really pissed that they haven’t spread it here big time, yet.
Then there’s this:
Another doctor who treated Ebola came through JFK
A physician who treated dying Ebola patients in Liberia flew in to JFK on Thursday night — and stayed at an airport hotel, a source told The Post.
Colin Bucks, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University’s medical school, arrived on a Royal Moroccan Air flight and is currently asymptomatic, sources said.
He went to the Hilton Garden Inn in Jamaica, Queens, near the airport. Centers for Disease Control workers “also stay there,” said a source.
On Friday, he was cleared to travel home to Northern California, where he will “be monitored by CDC there,” according to the source.
“He is asymptomatic and he’s being allowed to leave the hotel and fly home,” a source added.
Sources said that Bucks, works with International Medical Corps, was told to self-quarantine at the hotel, but he told The Post he merely missed a connecting flight. He said he was screened at the airport in Africa and again upon arrival at Kennedy airport.
“If there had been a flight yesterday, I would’ve not spent the night here,” he said in a telephone interview.
His first flight was delayed, so he missed his connecting flight and had to stay at a hotel overnight, he said.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/24/another-doctors-without-borders-physician-who-treated-ebola-came-through-jfk/
Evolving...
You didn’t answer the question.
I figure it was rhetorical.
In such case, am I to assume you mean ALL HCW, or just US HCW?
I think you can infer from my response what the answer is.
It was not rhetorical. All I can infer from your response is that you haven’t considered the consequences at all.
Never proactive, always reactive, making it up as they go.
The disease will burn itself out in the stricken (epidemic) countries.
Of course I consider the consequences. Many, especially liberals, will not like the answer.
What is your answer?
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