A Ebola outbreak in America moved closer on Wednesday when a second Dallas nurse tested positive for the disease a day after she took a flight from Ohio to Texas through two international airports.
Yeah, I know, you need to be symptomatic to be infectious. Or, well, sorta, because there’s no firm dividing line between being symptomatic and not, being infectious or not. They are both spectrums.
Isn’t it quite unusual for a person infected with a virus not to be contagious durng the non symptomatic phase. Often this is when people are most contagious. Not that they’re trying to fight Ebola by ‘narrative’ or anything
Well she had a slight temperature according to WaPo – http://waa.ai/4KdR
President Ebola leaps into action. We must have SWAT teams, he cries. Everywhere. Decisive activity. Lots of it. Now!
The “airborne” thing puzzles me. If bodily fluids spread it then it is a “coughs and sneezes spread diseases” candidate already. Isn’t that how airborne diseases spread anyway?. Or does airborne now mean it has its own air transport laid on?. (Obv it does in the form of jetliners but that isn’t what I mean)
She had a (mild) temperature of about 99.4 and asked the CDC if she should fly. Which said yes, great, go ahead, fly!
This supports my theory that human history is entirely a succession of bureaucratic cockups.
The CDC is being run by a former “Community Activist”. Why does any of this come as a surprise?
The Obama administration appointed someone to be an Ebola Tsar years ago. Why is no one asking her questions?
To quote TheOtherMcCain:
We are all screwed I would guess.
FUD. We’re all doomed, I tell ye. etc. etc.
If Nigeria can do it, for any European-style country where’s the problem?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/10/16/0217203/how-nigeria-stopped-ebola?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Then the WHO can get back to their proper job of telling us to stop smoking/stop drinking/stop overeating/.. and give them more money.
If Nigeria can do it, for any European-style country where’s the problem?
Political correctness, partly. As somebody commented on another blog:
$10,000 wired to Toronto takes almost a day to consummate given fear of terrorism and money laundering. Try setting up a bank account in the US if you are involved in a “high-risk” business (read: not to the moral liking of the Administration), such as transaction processing, pawn shops, or any business that touches guns, tobacco, or alcohol. All of this in the name of stopping money laundering and terrorism. And then Clapper cannot believe that we are willing to risk the mythical life of a fictional kidnapped child by not giving the government access to all of our personal data. Yet these same people are not willing to restrict the flow of people from Western Africa? Why should I as an American compromise my civil liberties consistently in the name of “terrorism” and have business dealings unduly restricted by Patriot Act, anti-money laundering laws, FATCA and know-your-customer laws, but non-Americans from an a region of the world gripped by a deadly plague are not even restricted from traveling to the US unencumbered?
Remember, Ebola is 100% airborne. It’s airborne in the fact that its carrier can take a plane and come to Dallas.