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Non-American Ebola patients to be treated in US?
Fox News ^ | 28 Oct 14 | Adam Housley

Posted on 10/29/2014 2:32:26 AM PDT by SkyPilot

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To: SkyPilot

Meanwhile, our own Ebola patients are so trustworthy:

http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/ebola-doctor-lied-about-his-nyc-travels-police/


21 posted on 10/29/2014 4:42:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dogcaller

I agree. The money is of secondary importance, what matters is that more hosts are being brought in and, inevitably, more people here will get infected.

Best to cordon off the affected/infected countries and let it burn out. Help them with aid, to be sure, but protect ourselves first.


22 posted on 10/29/2014 4:47:10 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr

For all:

Stand back and look at the real picture. So far, every American has survived the disease. In Liberia, it’s one out of ten.

The difference? No wonder drugs in this mix, remember this first and foremost. We do it with fever control, early ID of the disease, IV liquids, and using blood anti-bodies from previous survivors. Toss in some decent first-class care, and liquid foods that stay down. That’s it. Nothing really that fancy....no $16,000 special drug treatment...no wonder drug.

So, the Africans look over this and say it’s unfair. You need to cough up some “fairness”.

So, you ask yourself this logical question....how exactly would you transport daily....maybe five-hundred patients, with very risky transmission...who already are days into the episode with high fever....safely across the Atlantic for fourteen hours....avoiding undue stress which might kill them as well?

To make this work, you would have to deploy upwards to ten thousand US troops into the zone....create at least five hubs for US transport planes to land, then work out agreements that allowed you to have that many military troops there, and allowed these undocumented individuals some type of emergency passport. Cost per month? Figuring one military site for all of this....maybe in New Mexico...around $1 billion a month.

You could hand the $1 billion a month over to the various countries, in the form of medical aid, and break even...but no one wants that deal.


23 posted on 10/29/2014 5:01:06 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SkyPilot
There are 19 level four biocontainment beds in the US. However, 10 of the beds are at the University of Nebraska. Of those 10, only 2 are staffed. The actual number of functioning level four biocontainment beds in the US is maybe 11 (or 9, depending on who you believe).

Bellevue Hospital in New York has been transferring ICU patients to NYU a few blocks away in order to free up staff to take care of their single Ebola patient. We all should hope and pray that there isn't an Ebola epidemic in the US. Despite decades of warnings, the capabilities to deal with an epidemic of Ebola or anything like Ebola in the US are just not there.


24 posted on 10/29/2014 5:01:30 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: SkyPilot
The Ebola carriers would be given a "Fast Pass" by the State Department so that they could circumvent current US laws.

Any time I try to imagine the most maliciously destructive and evil thing Obama could do to our country, I fall short. I just don't have the creativity he demonstrates. Who thinks "I'm not getting enough infected individuals by just fast tracking visas from West Africa, I should give a Fast Pass to people who have full blown active cases of Ebola"?

25 posted on 10/29/2014 5:51:55 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: SkyPilot

Just remember, as King Obama says, “Make no mistake, the upcoming midterm elections are a referendum on my policies.”


26 posted on 10/29/2014 6:05:59 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: pepsionice
Good points, but the question of numbers is key. Suppose we have a non-U.S. doctor working for Doctors Without Borders, or a non-U.S. citizen working as part of a mostly U.S. aid team (therefore "one of ours," by extension), or a Liberian doctor, a certified hero, who has been working for six months in abysmal conditions, staying at the job as he has watched all the other front line responders die? Would you take one or a few of these people, on an individual basis? Most of us would.

But are we willing to fill up a 747 a day and transport hundreds routinely, to be dumped in semi-prepared ICU's around the country? Of course not.

And now the real question: who is willing to trust Team Obama to make rational distinctions in such a matter? Anyone? I didn't think so.

27 posted on 10/29/2014 6:15:59 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Pearls Before Swine

If they allow these “patients” to come into this country, house them in the White House, the odumbo’s don’t use it very often anyway, the security is pretty fair and not too many “outsiders” get in (note I said “not too many”)


28 posted on 10/29/2014 6:19:02 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: SkyPilot
Relax.

Ex-Speaker Pelosi explains why Obama is C A T A P U L T - ing more bodies into U.S.

Obama's Coordinated Assault Targeting American People Using Lethal Terminal foreign citizens.

"We have to get ebola to know what it is."

29 posted on 10/29/2014 6:24:10 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: SkyPilot; OKSooner
That's a great quote, but Cicero never said it or wrote it. Sorry.

I almost used it in the front pages of a book, but I decided to verify it, and it checked out as 100% certifiably bogus.

30 posted on 10/29/2014 6:24:29 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DaveA37

Since there are only a limited number of beds anyway, maybe this “program” is intended for a few super-elite important non-citizen buddies of Obama that might fall ill. You couldn’t handle mass importations— a plane carrying a few dozen would overwhelm existing facilities in the country.


31 posted on 10/29/2014 6:26:42 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: sphinx

I’d go one step further on this. Once you detail that you are intentionally bringing people into New Jersey....by the dozens or hundreds....what do you think the state of Jersey will do? Or say it’s the state of Texas? Or perhaps the state of Michigan?

What do the locals do with the local air base commander? Tell him that they will refuse to allow any member of the base to exit until quarantine is shut-down permanently at the base?

If you wanted massive state-by-state discontent....this is the best way to get it.

I understand the idea here...there isn’t four-star care in Africa, and there will never be such care. There’s a big unfairness situation brewing. But there is simply a limit to hospitality and fairness.


32 posted on 10/29/2014 6:44:40 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Actually the program is for doctors and other health workers.

Read the Washington Time article at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/28/state-department-plans-to-bring-foreign-ebola-pati.

33 posted on 10/29/2014 6:48:42 AM PDT by foxfield (Support the Tea Party. The Tea Party supports you.)
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To: Pollster1

They operate outside the realm of believability. That is how they get away with it. Everyone thinks they couldn’t possibly be that evil.


34 posted on 10/29/2014 6:54:09 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Travis McGee

Quotes are so often misattibuted. I just found out the famous quote of Washington’s about “foreign entanglements” was actually said by Jefferson.


35 posted on 10/29/2014 6:57:32 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: SkyPilot

Ah my favorite saying is proven once again, and I’ve been saying it since 2009: “Obama is a radical Muslim and an enemy of the United States and he proves it every day” How many billion more examples does Congress need or are they just going to allow this enemy of the United States continue his campaign of destruction?


36 posted on 10/29/2014 6:59:14 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
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To: Travis McGee
A lot of people fall for that quote, including me.

As Cicero wrote in his Barnum Quaestiones, "There's a sucker born every minute."

37 posted on 10/29/2014 7:11:58 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: pepsionice

Meanwhile, ISIS terrorists attack a major city in the US and threaten more attacks - while the majority of our troops are in Africa, “displaying leadership” to the world as dictated by O-Butt-Hole.


38 posted on 10/29/2014 7:12:54 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (The dark man cometh......he is here and masquerading as the POTUS.)
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To: blackdog

It would seem that the Director of the CDC certainly bought the “fledgling democracies” line. I wonder if Obola committed our 4,000 troops during that summit meeting. Not to mention, if whatever our troops are doing over there isn’t good enough to provide treatment for the non-US citizens that Obola plans on bringing here, then get our troops out of there.


39 posted on 10/29/2014 7:19:12 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I totally agree, and I’ve been saying, basically, the same thing. Too bad that not enough people listen and understand the destruction Obama has caused, and more that he is planning; especially the people who love this country and have the authority to do something about saving it before all hope of doing so is gone.


40 posted on 10/29/2014 7:26:15 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (The dark man cometh......he is here and masquerading as the POTUS.)
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