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Ebola confirmed in the US

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How come we can't impose a travel ban from the hot zones? It isn't racist to forbid people from Africa to come here, it's just smart.

This dude got Ebola in Liberia while caring for family that died from it. Realized he was dead too.

Says fuck it, gets on a plane and is somehow able to get to America right away, no problems.

Now he has access to a better health care system and a chance to live.

We incentivized this behavior.

We should expect more Ebola patients to come here on their own.

If anything I would go overboard and restrict all international traffic outside of North and South America. Let this burn out over there.



Only good part is the guys flight path to Dallas.

Had a lay over in Brussels (basically the capital of the EU) and a lay over in Washington DC / Vichy DC.

Damn near smart bomb precision targeting there.
 
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Of the near 80 people being "monitored" for Ebola in the Dallas area, none are on quarantine. So let me get this straight - of the people identified to have contact with patient zero while contagious, those people have NOT been isolated?!

It would seem to me that if you'd like to stop the spread of a deadly pathogen, that'd be a good place to start.
 
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Buckeneye said:
Of the near 80 people being "monitored" for Ebola in the Dallas area, none are on quarantine. So let me get this straight - of the people identified to have contact with patient zero while contagious, those people have NOT been isolated?!

It would seem to me that if you'd like to stop the spread of a deadly pathogen, that'd be a good place to start.
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Nah - just wait until you confirm a couple have it 7 days later, and then go back and try to see who they contacted, and repeat again.
 
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they should quarantine them all off with a Congressman until they lock down international travel.


i am fine with enforcing a no travel to and from North / South America ban with my military if needed. other nations, you just got jacked, sorry about your luck, but we got this shit.

that would be effective american leadership. what we have is effeminate, not effective leadership.
 
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Bleed S & G said:
Potential Ebola case in Hawaii - god speed @MililaniBuckeye
http://khon2.com/2014/10/01/patient...u-hospital-officials-say-ebola-a-possibility/
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“We are early in the investigation of a patient — very, very early — who we’re investigating that might have Ebola,” said Dr. Melissa Viray, deputy state epidemiologist. “It’s very possible that they do and they have Ebola. I think it’s also more likely that they have another condition that presents with similar symptoms.”

Dr. Viray said the patient could have a number of illnesses including Ebola, flu, malaria and typhoid.
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I'll be honest. I've been rooting for them to find out quinine will prevent Ebola much as is an antimalarial. Its after Labor day but, I'll take whatever I excuse I can get. I strongly recommend they test Angostura Bitters for anti-ebolic properties as well.
 
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Dallas Ebola Patient Was Another Visa Mistake
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/dallas-ebola-patient-was-another-visa-mistake

Look up "likely visa overstay" in the dictionary, and you should find a picture of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who is the first Ebola case diagnosed within the United States, and who is now being treated in a Dallas hospital.

This looks like another good case for the consular officers training manual of a non-immigrant visa that never should have been issued, but which could have serious public health consequences, not to mention monetary costs.
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In 2013, more than 3,500 non-immigrant visas were issued to Liberians. This number has grown steadily since 2009, when just over 1,300 were issued. Most are issued to tourists and business travelers. A relatively high percentage do not return, but settle here illegally to join a well-established Liberian community (many of whom have won green cards in the visa lottery).

The federal government has yet to disclose the details of Duncan's immigration history, but it is fair to ask why he was issued a visa in the first place? More importantly, what steps are being taken to prevent others who may be infected from entering the country?
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We should at least cancel all open invitations to visit the US from the hot zones right?
 
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Buckeneye said:
Of the near 80 people being "monitored" for Ebola in the Dallas area, none are on quarantine. So let me get this straight - of the people identified to have contact with patient zero while contagious, those people have NOT been isolated?!

It would seem to me that if you'd like to stop the spread of a deadly pathogen, that'd be a good place to start.
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They updated it. There are now 100 people being 'monitored' but not quarantined. Fuck Monitoring, I want to Merrimack some motherfuckers.

The patient had roughly a three hour layover in DC changing flights too. I know it isn't supposed to be contagious unless you are physically ill, but I see no evidence that he did not get Ebola from someone on the plane, or that even there could have been more than one person infected but not symptomatic on the plane.


What purpose does Homeland Security have better than stopping Ebola? I know they like touching my nuts and all that, who doesn't, but damn.

This is a failure on the part of Homeland Security and the State Department that approved anyone travelling from Ebolaland to America. Throw in the Secret Service failures and we are having lots of basic management issues with our government lately.
 
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Again, the lack of quarantine is seriously concerning. Now 100 people are being monitored? Should US Citizens die because of the failure to contain those infected, should that be labeled as treason? I mean.. why not?
 
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Doctor Boards Atlanta Flight In HazMat Suit To Protest "Lying CDC"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-02/doctor-boards-atlanta-flight-hazmat-suit-protest-lying-cdc

"If they're not lying, they are grossly incompetent," said Dr. Gil Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo. as he checked in and cleared Atlanta airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, "CDC is lying!" As The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Mobley says the CDC is "sugar-coating" the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.
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"Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted. “That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”
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“Yesterday, I came through international customs at the Atlanta airport,” the doctor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol.”
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stop protecting the homeland from losing out on sin taxes and start asking if they have ebola you stupid mother fuckers.
 
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