Ebola spreading in West Africa: What you need to know

moreluck

golden ticket member
Isn't that the same Rick Perry who says that for-profit business and the states can do anything far better than the federal government? I haven't heard him say what for-profit business or even the State of Texas would do to handle the Ebola outbreak, have you?
Are the hospitals charity hospitals ? They have spoken about their plans...they're businesses.
 

moreluck

golden ticket member
It was just reported that Gov. Oops Perry will be cutting his trip short to return to Tex-ass. Want to bet he spends the next three weeks walking around in a full hazmat suit?
At least he isn't flying around the country for a day because he's too scared to land and face the horror (now let's see, what former president, also from texass, did that in 2001? I think it was Sept 11).And HE, of all people, questions Obama's leadership??? What a JOKE!
Your "what a joke" comment needs to go higher than just a gov. The CDC head ? president?
 

ImWaitingForTheDay

Annoy a conservative....Think for yourself
This is typical conservative behavior. They yell and scream about how much they don't need the federal government but when they fail to keep their own house in order and it hits the fan, there's the conservatives with their hands out begging the government for help.Remember the millions Texas needed from the federal gov't after the unregulated fertilizer plant explosion?.
 

upschuck

Well-Known Member
Remember the millions Texas needed from the federal gov't after the unregulated fertilizer plant explosion?.
I don't understand why the gov't has to bail out underinsured people at all, be it hurricane, tornado, or other disaster. That is what insurance is for, if you can't afford the insurance, then you can't afford whatever.
 

oldngray

nowhere special
I don't understand why the gov't has to bail out underinsured people at all, be it hurricane, tornado, or other disaster. That is what insurance is for, if you can't afford the insurance, then you can't afford whatever.

I agree. Some people insist on living in high risk areas for various reasons and I don't believe its the responsibility of taxpayers to pay for them living in a place for reasons like "it has a nice view". Some areas are almost certain to get hit every few years and the people choosing to live there should either buy insurance or move.
 

Babagounj

Strength through joy
Connecticut patient in isolation with Ebola-like symptoms
Yale University student recently traveled to Liberia
"Yale-New Haven Hospital admitted a patient late Wednesday night for evaluation of Ebola-like symptoms. We have not confirmed or ruled out any diagnosis at this point," the hospital said in a statement, according to the Hartford Courant.
 

moreluck

golden ticket member
You have never traveled with your family when one of them wasn't feeling 100%? Happens all the time.
Not if your family member is part of a 21 day observation because they may have been exposed to ebola. Different scenario entirely!!!
She asked if she could fly and the CDC said sure. They screwed up!
 

moreluck

golden ticket member
The head of the CDC says we can't issue flight bans in these countries because it would hurt their economies.
So what....you'd rather Americans die ?? What an idiot.
 

moreluck

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The airline that unknowingly transported an Ebola-stricken nurse on a flight from Ohio to Texas has placed six crew members on paid leave out of “an abundance of caution," and said it was warned by health officials about “the possibility” that the passenger had symptoms during the flight.

Frontier Airlines CEO David Siegel said in a letter to employees that the airline was told by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday that nurse Amber Vinson “may have been symptomatic earlier than initially suspected; including the possibility of possessing symptoms while onboard the flight.” The airline says no symptoms were detected by the crew.

Vinson, a Texas nurse who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan and later tested positive for the deadly disease, flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Oct. 8 - the day her patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, died. She flew back from Cleveland to Dallas on Frontier Flight 1143 on Monday while she had a mild fever. The CDC said it was asking the more than 130 passengers who were also on the flight to call a CDC hotline. Vinson is now being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Siegel said four flight attendants and two pilots involved in that flight were put on 21-day paid leave, that the jet was taken out of service as soon as the airline learned Wednesday a sick passenger may have been aboard, and that the jet cleaned and the seat covers and carpets near Vinson’s seat would be removed.

“We take today’s events seriously as your safety and that of our customers is always at the forefront of everything we do,” Siegel said in the letter. “This was over and above CDC guidance that stated that our flight crews were safe to fly.”

The plane, registration N220FR, continued to transport passengers on Tuesday, and made five flights to airports in Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta before the airline was notified of the sick passenger on Wednesday.
 

moreluck

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ImWaitingForTheDay

Annoy a conservative....Think for yourself
These easily stampeded right wing sheep, who are wetting themselves over a virus that has, to date, killed one person in this country, tend to be the same people who shrug off 30,000 gun deaths annually, as the price we pay for 'freedom'.
 

The Other Side

Well-Known Troll
Troll
These easily stampeded right wing sheep, who are wetting themselves over a virus that has, to date, killed one person in this country, tend to be the same people who shrug off 30,000 gun deaths annually, as the price we pay for 'freedom'.

Dont forget about the over 50 thousand people who last year alone died from the flu, and yet these same people say NOTHING about that. A true epidemic.

Goes to show how these people are manipulated by one news source.

TOS.
 

moreluck

golden ticket member
So, you moniter 30 or 40 people because they might have been exposed.....then one of them flies on a plane with a fever.....now there's maybe 200 persons on that plane and that plane makes 2 or 3 trips that same day.....exposing hundreds more perhaps. I see the domino effect that this could become.
To be blasé about it is just stupid.
 
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