A friend called me today and asked me the question--Are the people coming to the United States with Ebola from Liberia and other countries being paid to do so? Frankly, I had not even thought of that connection. However, it does make one wonder, how do they finance their travel? How many have already gotten here and they haven't gotten sick yet? How many "Typhoid Mary's" are there?
Could they be purposely being sent here to infect us? Who would be funding them? How is it that their travels were very circuitous and not directly to the US from Liberia or Nigeria? Are these people Muslims or believers in Islam? What would be the end game?
Yes, a lot of questions and remarkably, we have heard this threat being discussed in the lame stream media or anywhere else. Could it be that no one has thought of this and my friend is just ahead of the rest of us? He's smart but...
It is obvious to us that our President and his administration have been trailing the rest of the country and world on this issue. It is a dangerous disease and can spread quickly if the proper precautions are not taken. Are we being lulled into complacency? Or is our inferior health care, according to the President and his staff, going to be overwhelmed by the disease. Are we being punished for being Americans as Farrakhan has said?
We wish that we knew more but here is where we are. First of all we must contain the disease. It must be controlled in the countries with the outbreak. That means anyone coming from or that has visited any infected region cannot enter the country until the incubation period has expired. That means they cannot enter the US period.
Should they get past our "intrepid" TSA, we should establish quarantine zones. This would be a good use of the FEMA camps that have been set up by the government. Keep potentially infected individuals housed separately from others until their time has run. However, the emphasis should be on keeping them away from our shores first which means sealing our borders.
Secondly, anyone who shows signs of the disease and any of his relatives who live with him/her must be immediately quarantined. Any place that they have visited in the last 30 days must be sanitized. Anyone exposed to the disease must also be quarantined.
Thirdly, any individual who conspires with others to hide an Ebola infection or to fund or to plan their travel to this country, should be imprisoned for a long period of time even if they live outside the US. This goes for the patient, his/her doctor or other medical professional, friends, relatives and acquaintances.
Fourthly, if we find the Centers for Disease Control has not adequately informing us of the nature and severity of the disease, the head of this agency should be brought up on endangerment charges. This is NOT the time to be politically correct. This a goes to anyone in government who withholds or "spins" information. We are in a war with a disease and we cannot be meek.
Lastly, the media must be tasked with informing the public of person who are infected, where they live, where they have been (shopping, working, anywhere else) in the past 30 days. This is not a privacy issue, it is a matter of life and death. The infected person's disease trumps their right to maintain their privacy.
If we take these onerous and very restrictive steps we might be lucky to get ahead of the disease and prevent the deaths of thousands. If not, each of us could become victims of what appears to be, an attack on this country.
What other steps do you think we should take? Let us know. Comment on the blog or write to us at tom.conservativemusings1@gmail.com
Conservative Tom
Could they be purposely being sent here to infect us? Who would be funding them? How is it that their travels were very circuitous and not directly to the US from Liberia or Nigeria? Are these people Muslims or believers in Islam? What would be the end game?
Yes, a lot of questions and remarkably, we have heard this threat being discussed in the lame stream media or anywhere else. Could it be that no one has thought of this and my friend is just ahead of the rest of us? He's smart but...
It is obvious to us that our President and his administration have been trailing the rest of the country and world on this issue. It is a dangerous disease and can spread quickly if the proper precautions are not taken. Are we being lulled into complacency? Or is our inferior health care, according to the President and his staff, going to be overwhelmed by the disease. Are we being punished for being Americans as Farrakhan has said?
We wish that we knew more but here is where we are. First of all we must contain the disease. It must be controlled in the countries with the outbreak. That means anyone coming from or that has visited any infected region cannot enter the country until the incubation period has expired. That means they cannot enter the US period.
Should they get past our "intrepid" TSA, we should establish quarantine zones. This would be a good use of the FEMA camps that have been set up by the government. Keep potentially infected individuals housed separately from others until their time has run. However, the emphasis should be on keeping them away from our shores first which means sealing our borders.
Secondly, anyone who shows signs of the disease and any of his relatives who live with him/her must be immediately quarantined. Any place that they have visited in the last 30 days must be sanitized. Anyone exposed to the disease must also be quarantined.
Thirdly, any individual who conspires with others to hide an Ebola infection or to fund or to plan their travel to this country, should be imprisoned for a long period of time even if they live outside the US. This goes for the patient, his/her doctor or other medical professional, friends, relatives and acquaintances.
Fourthly, if we find the Centers for Disease Control has not adequately informing us of the nature and severity of the disease, the head of this agency should be brought up on endangerment charges. This is NOT the time to be politically correct. This a goes to anyone in government who withholds or "spins" information. We are in a war with a disease and we cannot be meek.
Lastly, the media must be tasked with informing the public of person who are infected, where they live, where they have been (shopping, working, anywhere else) in the past 30 days. This is not a privacy issue, it is a matter of life and death. The infected person's disease trumps their right to maintain their privacy.
If we take these onerous and very restrictive steps we might be lucky to get ahead of the disease and prevent the deaths of thousands. If not, each of us could become victims of what appears to be, an attack on this country.
What other steps do you think we should take? Let us know. Comment on the blog or write to us at tom.conservativemusings1@gmail.com
Conservative Tom
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