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We could try not losing our minds over a disease that kills fewer people than the flu.
Its becoming painfully clear that our system is not ready for this. The fact that first individual with Ebola in the US has infected a person assigned to treat them is proof positive. This should have never have happened and frankly, I hold the CDC responsible for this. They should have had their teams treating this guy, not normal hospital staff who had a brief on CDC guidelines.
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Not directly. LGA's runways are too short and aren't designed for the weight of your typical long range jet. Anything coming from overseas is probably landing at somewhere else in the US and pax more than likely being put on a different aircraft. With JFK and EWR both nearby I'm gonna guess that even that doesn't happen all that often.
Could people travelling internationally make their way through LGA? Sure. But there aren't gonna be many.
The protest strikes me as being more alarmist than thoughtful.
Airport workers at La Guardia in NYC are going on strike over having to be around potential Ebola-carrying air passengers. This echoes the popular sentiment of a majority of Americans who want Obama to stop favoring his fellow Africans, and to start favoring the Americans who pay his salary.
Ebola scare: LaGuardia on strike, 58% of Americans want to ban flights from W. Africa ? RT USA
Airport workers at La Guardia in NYC are going on strike over having to be around potential Ebola-carrying air passengers. This echoes the popular sentiment of a majority of Americans who want Obama to stop favoring his fellow Africans, and to start favoring the Americans who pay his salary.
Ebola scare: LaGuardia on strike, 58% of Americans want to ban flights from W. Africa ? RT USA
This part I agree with. I just don't think banning flights from certain countries will help.
What will help is sending lots of money and medical personnel to the affected areas.
But guess I've made my point way too much by now! sorry for boring people.
Frieden sure looked & sounded a bit worried yesterday.
This seems like the kind of story that, a few months afterwards, assuming we get through it, you'll be reading stories about how close we really were to a disaster here in the USA.
If they are on strike, that probably means they're union. Does that mean the union also thinks Obama is wrong in his handling of the Ebola crisis? I agree with the union.
Good morning, bubba. :2wave:
I read on Yahoo this morning that another possible Ebola patient has turned up in Boston! :wow: That's a long way from Dallas! Since we all still have the freedom to travel freely, I suppose it was inevitable, but are we now going to read about possible Ebola patients all over the country on a daily basis, or will it be something that is not reported by the MSM, to "prevent panic?"
This should have never have happened and frankly, I hold the CDC responsible for this. They should have had their teams treating this guy, not normal hospital staff who had a brief on CDC guidelines.
The CDC Director and Obama were both so sure that Ebola wasn't going to come into the United States, they just let things slide. Incompetence is standard with this administration.
We could try not losing our minds over a disease that kills fewer people than the flu.
The red herring of the "flu" that's been the top argument topic against travel bans is ludicrous. The flu doesn't have a 70% mortality rate. The flu has a vaccination that is available each and every year and is very effective. Comparing the two isn't even valid.
The CDC Director and Obama were both so sure that Ebola wasn't going to come into the United States, they just let things slide. Incompetence is standard with this administration.
Ignorance run a muck. Let's start with the fact that LaGuardia is a domestic airport. They aren't likely to deal with anything more contagious than a tick on a plant in the baggage of a flight from Colorado carrying Lyme disease.
Banning flights from Africa is also complete silliness. We inbound 150 persons per day from Africa
http://www.newsweek.com/state-depar...ne-would-only-create-35-permanent-jobs-228898
...many of them, including Mr. Duncan, do not enter the country on flights from Africa but connect in Europe.
People are starting to lose rationality. They are far more likely to be gunned down by a gunman in a movie theater or mall or die in a carjacking than die of ebola.
So, what is the cost of truth?
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the world has less than 60 days to stem the deadly Ebola epidemic —
70 percent of all burials need to occur without contamination by that date, he said. “We need to do that within 60 days from Oct. 1. If we reach these targets, we can turn this epidemic around,” he said.
“If we fail at any of these, we fail entirely. With each passing day as more people are infected, the number of people infected grows exponentially.
But the flu kills more people every flu season, is far more contagious, people refuse to take the vaccines (which fyi only cover a handful of the strains), and as an American, you are FAR more likely to die from than Ebola.
We are hyping a threat that has killed ONE person who received very poor medical care and ignoring something that kills thousands.
Μολὼν λαβέ;1063871248 said:The flu doesn't have a 70% mortality rate. Ebola does.
I got my flu vaccination last week. You?
Hyping a threat? Then let those who travel from West Africa board at your abode.
Lots of things kill more people ... that's not the point. The point is we should be doing everything possible, including a temporary ban from hot spot countries, from entering the US. The flu is a red herring and the flu doesn't kill the same way, and the flu doesn't have a 70% mortality rate.But the flu kills more people every flu season, is far more contagious, people refuse to take the vaccines (which fyi only cover a handful of the strains), and as an American, you are FAR more likely to die from than Ebola.
Hype is irrelevant. The government who controls travel in this country is not protecting it's people, is not providing protocols for caring for Ebola patients and is playing politics with peoples lives. Hospitals are not prepared for this because the US has not encountered this disease in this country - so I don't blame hospitals as this is all too new. We need nurses and doctors to be trained - that takes time.We are hyping a threat that has killed ONE person who received very poor medical care and ignoring something that kills thousands.
Again, its not "banning all flights." Its shutting down normal passenger traffic from the affected area. Resource flights and essential personnel (particularly medical) would still be allowed transit with quarantine protocols established. This is very doable and at this point grossly negligent not to.
Do you really think its responsible to allow people to come and go freely from areas with a large amount of infected when the incubation period can be up to 3 weeks?
I say we lock the world down for 21 days. no one travels more than 10 miles from home; if you are in a major metropolitan area, you can't leave it.
No planes. No trains. No busses. Minimal use of cars.
We'll get hungry. the economy will crash.
But if people are stupid enough to fly when they're on the ebola watch list, then oh well. Let's do it. Shut the world down.
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