UPDATE! Want a quick kick in the nuts? Remember how I told you to head over to Shepherd of the Gurney's to get the real deal on Ebola? Well watch the vid he posted, read his commentary and you'll be shocked straight. This ain't over folks.
I've been getting bombarded with news that Nigeria is Ebola free.
What everyone is missing is how the Nigerians arrived at this good result.
1. They declared a quarantine of travel from the affected countries.
2. They forcibly quarantined any individual that had contact with patient zero.
3. They acquired extra governmental powers to compel records from every possible source to track down any person that had contact with patient zero...the number totaled over 18,000 people.
Yet even with that a total of 19 people died from that one person. With air travel still being allowed into the US we can expect additional cases. Even more startling is the fact that the next infection, if it happens in New York or the North East corridor will have even more people listed as possible contacts. Are we prepared to interview upwards of 30,000 people? Are we prepared to treat upwards of 50 people that show signs of infection?
There is a reason why this continues to be an issue. There is a reason why I don't believe this thing is over. I recommend you all check out Shepherd of the Gurney's blog to get his opinion of this outbreak. I don't agree with the clown suit Obama vibe but I do think we have a leader that acts only at the last moment. When it comes to Ebola acting late is a recipe for disaster.
Additional reading.
Sidenote. Has anyone noticed that the World Health Organization has been as fumbling in its response as the CDC? Doctor's without Borders are the real heroes here but unlike the WHO they won't seek to claim credit for the positive result in Nigeria.
I've been getting bombarded with news that Nigeria is Ebola free.
What everyone is missing is how the Nigerians arrived at this good result.
1. They declared a quarantine of travel from the affected countries.
2. They forcibly quarantined any individual that had contact with patient zero.
3. They acquired extra governmental powers to compel records from every possible source to track down any person that had contact with patient zero...the number totaled over 18,000 people.
Yet even with that a total of 19 people died from that one person. With air travel still being allowed into the US we can expect additional cases. Even more startling is the fact that the next infection, if it happens in New York or the North East corridor will have even more people listed as possible contacts. Are we prepared to interview upwards of 30,000 people? Are we prepared to treat upwards of 50 people that show signs of infection?
There is a reason why this continues to be an issue. There is a reason why I don't believe this thing is over. I recommend you all check out Shepherd of the Gurney's blog to get his opinion of this outbreak. I don't agree with the clown suit Obama vibe but I do think we have a leader that acts only at the last moment. When it comes to Ebola acting late is a recipe for disaster.
Additional reading.
Sidenote. Has anyone noticed that the World Health Organization has been as fumbling in its response as the CDC? Doctor's without Borders are the real heroes here but unlike the WHO they won't seek to claim credit for the positive result in Nigeria.
http://www.infowars.com/pentagon-says-ebola-strike-team-does-not-violate-posse-comitatus/
ReplyDeletewell more cases will make it obvious that a state of emergency will be declared and probably rightfully so. the state and local govt was stretched to the max on a single case. the same will apply to any outbreak in ANY major city.
Deletebetter to allow the military to come in and contain the outbreak WITHOUT infringing on the rest of the population. additionally as Nancy Sniderman of NBC news shows. even trained professionals at the top of the pyramid will fuck up quarantine. so enforcing it by use of arms will probably become required.
i don't quite see a problem with the move. that could change mattering on how they implement the policy though.
But I think its a slippery slope allowing the military to step into the situation. Will they be able to enforce other state/local laws while on duty, in the process?
ReplyDeletei can't disagree with a thing you're saying there. it all matters on how they implement the support. we'll see what we'll see.
DeleteEbola is not as bad as you think. Yes its deadly, but to an educated, clean, modern civilization, it won't spread very quick. It spreads in Africa because people either mess with the dead bodies, pillage/use clearly contaminated items, and don't trust medical staff/care. More people may die here, but its no epidemic.
ReplyDeleteyou didn't head over to Shepherd of the Gurney's site to check out that vid i recommended did you? you're parroting the standard line from the administrations medical officials but thats not close to being the truth.
Deletethis ebola is something different from teh 1970's ebola that they're talking about.
Yet.
DeleteCall me when it gets into the illegal alien population, who live 27 to a garage, and don't go to outsiders because they don't want to be deported. So after one guy brings it to a flop house, and then those 27 guys give it to 50-100 more people, and then they start collapsing, and all medical care in an entire city comes to a screeching halt, then tell me about how our clean, modern civilization is going to respond.
Duncan wasn't our only case, just our first one.
And the other model is that when Duncan v2.0 shows up, staff will clock out and go home, and the next shift will call off sick.
Because they don't want to end up in unpaid quarantine for 3 weeks, and they don't want o get Ebola, and they don't want to die, or give it to their families.
And someone will call the news media, and it'll hit the airwaves, and people will hit the interstates.
Businesses will close, schools will be vacant, and people will either hunker down, or GTFO.
People will buy BS right up until it gets real in their town.
I talked to a guy in the Pentagon who was parked 10 feet away from where the lady puked and started a three-alarm hazmat Chinese fire drill. Nobody was playing when they saw half a dozen hazmat fire trucks and yards of yellow tape.
Duncan, even if no one else comes up infected, was just a warning shot across the bow.
Screening didn't stop Duncan, and it won't catch the next 10 Duncan, so we'll keep doing this until someone twists HopeyDopey's arm up over his shoulder and he signs a quarantine order.
But likely we'll have a lot more actual patients, and a lot less people willing to be guinea pigs for the new improved CDC protocols. Ain't going to be anything "normal" then.
One patient almost swamped the system and turned the response into a cluster fuck of widely exaggerated reports and rumors in both and all directions.
ReplyDeleteIt showed us the clowns and the wise ones.
It cost more than it should have.
People won't be as open about declaring they are or have an Ebola contact or victim.
One floggin' patient almost shut down the whole system.
If there is one, there will be others, we were lucky this time.