And still no Surgeon General.
The reason it hasn’t spread rapidly beyond their borders.
yes, people really think it prudent to restrict travel from countries in the middle of an epidemic. It’s going to take time to fix this and it makes sense to contain it at the source. Do you think the President is wrong to restrict entry to 5 locations for screening?
How come no one remembers the guy being treated in Omaha. He’s clear by the way.
It makes sense to end it at the source, which will be hindered by needless travel restrictions that only serve to delay experts and supplies.
medical supplies and personnel don’t travel commercial air. All that should be done under controlled charter operations so the proper care can be exercised on the planes used. Otherwise you have infected people traveling on aircraft who are then screened AFTERWARDS.
The logistics of it is that it’s extremely expensive to pull a wide body plane out of service and thoroughly clean it. All the passengers have to be tracked down and monitored. Again, very expensive.
Far cheaper to hire a small private aircraft along with the appropriate decontamination process. Then it’s no different than hauling cattle or any other cargo that requires a bio-hazard cleaning. The charter business is better equipped to handle this now.
Bobby Jindal has decided to create his own foreign policy by requiring all state agencies to “monitor travel to all countries identified under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ebola travel guidelines.”
Not sure what this monitoring will accomplish, nor if it’s supposed to apply only to people who go in and out of Louisiana.
It’s also interesting that he did this by executive order. The state legislature’s Democrats should sue him for overreaching.
I work in the business, and yes, humanitarian workers do fly commercial, all the time. Charters are good for getting to places where commercial transport doesn’t exist, or for dispatching a small crisis team for an immediate response, but I can’t think of any cases where inter-continental charters between major airports ran for a sustained time period.
Actually, I think this one makes a lot of sense. People identified as from those nations/areas enter through screening points with personnel trained to look for signs of infection and equipped to isolate and transport people who should be quarantined.
Chicago just did that last night and now has two travelers quarantined.
Gee, I wonder who is blocking his nomination? :dubious:
The GOP can’t block his nomination. Remember? The Democrats fixed that problem. The Democrats are blocking his nomination.
Nearly every Republican voted to block his nomination. Only four Democrats did, who were frightened by the NRA – which aligns with the Right.
I take it seriously enough to recommend the Ebola Condom:
There’s no reason not to fly commercial TO nearby countries. From there you charter to remote regions which is the only way to get to the hot spots.
Sick people are chartered back. Financially this is the cheapest route for reasons I already went over.
The NRA can be fairly said to have blocked the nomination. But there’s no getting around that a majority of Senators don’t want him as Surgeon General.
ignoring the security theater aspect of it how does that stop an infected person who shows no symptoms?
Well, you aren’t supposed to hear both those arguments at the same time. You’re supposed to hear one, THEN the other after you’ve forgotten about the first.
It doesn’t.
However, to the best of anyone’s knowledge an infected person isn’t contagious until they show symptoms. Pre-symptoms it’s safe to be around the person.
If you catch them when the fever first spikes you can isolate them without anyone else getting infected. The only people who have contracted Ebola in the US were medical people working with a dying patient during the most infectious phase of the disease.
Thus, encourage people who have come from such countries to seek medical attention if they get sick with anything. It turns out the two people who arrived in Chicago yesterday do not, in fact, have Ebola, they have some other illness. Heck, the kid that threw up mid-flight might have just been airsick. Even in Monrovia, Liberia most people who get sick are sick with something other than Ebola. Make sure there are no barriers to someone with Ebola getting adequate treatment in the US. Those screened and cleared as Ebola-free will probably be greatly relieved, even if they’re sick with something else. Those with Ebola will get treatment which will give them significantly greater chance of surviving than no treatment.
OP, what is the ebola threat, exactly?
I’m not the OP but apparently the latest ebola threat is a doctor (a doctor!) returning from West Africa after treating (guess what?) ebola patients and wandering around New York City: Tracing Ebola Patient’s Possible Contacts Creates Host of Challenges for New York City
Heck of a job you’re doing, Dr. Spencer.