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I can't imagine feeling too comfortable about seeing my son or daughter or husband or wife off to Liberia - and I can't imagine being deployed and getting the bulletin that our Armed Forces got today to be alert of terror threats against my family members.
The Military should be like our Police and be allowed to carry a side arm even when not on duty.
I have no problem with the school being cleaned and disinfected. What I have a problem with is that local officials keep telling us it is impossible to get infected without blood, vomit, saliva, semen or sweat from an infected person getting into our bodies through a cut or mucuous membrane. They have completely discounted getting infected from these substances on dried surfaces. Yet they are disinfecting schools, putting the ambulance in quarantine and getting a hazmat cleaning company to clean the apartment. Their actions are in direct contradiction to their assurances.
Yep, when the govt. and media tell me to freak out (SARS, Y2K) I pretty much ignore it, but when they tell me "Go about your business, nothing to see here", my ears perk up.
They have completely discounted getting infected from these substances on dried surfaces. Yet they are disinfecting schools, putting the ambulance in quarantine and getting a hazmat cleaning company to clean the apartment. Their actions are in direct contradiction to their assurances.
They haven't completely discounted getting infected by body fluids on surfaces. They are disinfecting areas where the virus is known to have been or may have likely been. People were infected in Liberia via direct contact or handling known body fluids, like the camera man who was cleaning out a car that had an infected person. Since it's not widespread in our country, we don't need to worry about the buttons on ATM machines yet at this point.
I think this Liberian came to America because he had a pretty good idea he had the disease. Staying in Liberia would have meant certain death. Here, he'll be cured and at no expense to him.
I wonder how many visitors from the infected countries have come here. Showing no symptoms, yet. Or how many will go to Mexico and enter the US that way. Or infect Mexicans who will then come here.
That "news conference" the CDC guy gave a few days ago, with the computer generated voices and everything, was not exactly confidence inspiring. We can stop one, two or three cases in their tracks, maybe. But what about 300? 70 in Texas, 100 in CA/AZ/NM, the rest here and there.
I would be surprised if we didn't see this by Xmas. It's just getting started.
this article is about our open border policy as well as the green card lottery, how stupid is this country of ours that we do not change our policies when the world changes?
It is my country and the country of my ancestors but I am so disillusioned sometimes with the inefficiency with how we exist and the pure stupidity with our blunders. Having said that...when we do get it right, we really do a great job of it!
We Gambled with Ebola and Lost
Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public-health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.
Obama eased the quarantine regulations for entry into the United States. He also refused to deny entry to all people from the infected countries and/or people who had recently been in these countries.
Anyone who has a Liberian/Sierra Leonian/Nigerian passport, or who had their passport stamped in Liberia/Sierra Leone/Nigeria within the last year should be denied entry into the United States. Even US citizens should be denied entry if they have those stamps in their passports.
Within the last year is overboard. The virus incubation period is only 21 days.
On Friday, Presbyterian spokesman Wendell Watson would not give answers to a series of detailed questions beyond whether a doctor had in fact treated Duncan. “Of course, a doctor treated him,” Watson said.
They should define "treated by a doctor." If this is a teaching hospital, it's very well possible the doctor only saw him for a minute or two. We've received terrible care in the ERs of teaching hospitals. The doctor missed important information about my husband's health because he went by the report given by the resident/intern. She told him the Xray and CT scans were normal. After hours and hours of being in the ER, there was a shift change, and the new attending physician was perplexed by not being able to diagnose my husband. She went back and LOOKED at the actual imagine herself, consulted with the radiologist, and diagnosed my husband. It took 12 hours to diagnose my husband with pneumonia because of a resident/intern error and the first attending physician not spending more than a two minutes with my husband. I remember even asking him if the x-ray and CT scan results were normal since he was disregarding upper respiratory symptoms and focusing his questions on other things. He looked at a sheet of paper in his hand and said, "I'll have to look at the images myself." Well, apparently he was too busy and never go around to it. Don't even get me started on physician's assistants in the ER. They're either really good or really bad.
Within the last year is overboard. The virus incubation period is only 21 days.
But not even *that* is happening. I've said it before, Obama WANTS Ebola within our borders.
Good thing I have low blood pressure, because just thinking about this makes my blood boil.
We've got to stop *all* traffic from Africa, PERIOD.
Meanwhile, we've got several churches in our community still sending missionaries to and from the dark Continent. I think that's also foolish.
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