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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
I'm not too worried about myself or my family getting ebola. I worry more for the nation's infrastructure if ebola starts decimating all our nation's best medical and public safety forces. The people needed most to stop the disease and to treat the suffering patients are the first to get exposed, and they are in hospitals with air systems that affect thousands of patients already in the hospitals and are there because they are sick and weak and many have lowered immune systems.
There was no reason why Duncan HAD to be allowed to come here. He's not a citizen and I find it highly suspect that he was working reliably in a decent job, and he suddenly quit without notice on September 4. He then came to the U.S. to meet up with his "estranged" girlfriend. I think he was coming here to seek medical treatment for ebola, or to marry the woman to get legal immigration status, or both.
And as for his relatives in TX not having ebola, maybe he knew he had the disease and made sure nobody got close to him, staying in other livlng quarters, etc.
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I concur. I do not think most are worried at this point about personally contracting Ebola.
What bothers me, and I have to try to make this non political and explain my view is that when you are elected President of the USA, politics should be out the window totally. We can all criticize the President and mostly it is not him but his staff. I say that because what I am reading...there has been one post about the Republicans blocking the surgeon general and that is patently a
VERY BIG untruth. Other than that, most are just a bit concerned about how things are going and in my opinion, justified. I do not think anyone other than the one post attempted any politics, but I can be corrected.
Back in September, a number of reports were isssued which pretty much predicted this event or events in the USA....
"The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has public health officials very alarmed. It is the world's largest and deadliest outbreak yet, and has infected about 3,600 people and killed at least 1,841 in three countries, according to the World Health Organization's tally. But there's a good chance the virus will spread outside of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
How good a chance? A study this week puts the odds that Ebola will arrive in the U.S. in late September as high as 18 percent. The study, published in PLOS Currents: Outbreaks, analyzed patterns of daily flights from the infected countries, keeping in mind how hard it will be to keep an infected person from boarding commercial airliners:"
This is from organizations who do this for a living.
Study finds 18 percent chance Ebola will arrive in the U.S. this month - The Week
For those who like to read this stuff, here is the actual report with graphs etc.
Assessing the International Spreading Risk Associated with the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak – PLOS Currents Outbreaks
The analyisis which was available to world leaders before its early September publication said that there was a 25% chance of Ebola coming to the USA in 3 to 6 weeks. Amazingly, it was right on target.
I know we "only" have two cases but we were told the probability of America”s Ebola vulnerability was extremely low.
it is only two cases, yes....but those who feel that people are overreacting should step back.....a month ago, if you said EBOLA would be on our shores in a matter of weeks, you would have drawn snickers.
Let us hope this new Czar shows fortitude and rises about the political fray. Let us hope that information as pointed out above that was not shared, will be shared.
I have read posts about only 9 beds or something available...that concerns me. I hear we are still issuing passports...that concerns me. I assume everyone knows that African countries are "shutting down their borders" to the most contagious of countries.
It may be hard to catch, as pointed out.....anyone who has had small children know how unsanitary they can be....I just imagine how fast in one single school day it would spread between children and their families if the worst happened.
Be wise and open Mr Czar