Just ask yourself 1 question.

What happens when someone flies on Air France out of W. Africa and is infectious at the airport in France. Now suppose they infect someone who is returning to Calcutta India, Beijing China, or Pakistan?

Our CDC is so confident that this won't become a problem in the U.S., but this isn't simply a U.S. possibility. As long as air traffic continues from infected countries, it is a world wide probability. We've already seen how someone returning from W. Africa was infectious for 4 days down in Texas and now those EMS workers have to be quarantined.

When someone infects other people in any another very crowded city somewhere else in this world we're done for.

Now I know that the people at the CDC and the World Health Organization are intelligent people, but the mere fact that the borders haven't been slammed shut in these countries tells me one thing. And that is that they want this to become a global pandemic for population control. No logical person could ever come to any other conclusion than that.

Some time into the future we'll be blogging about patient zero in India or somewhere else where it became unstoppable the world over.

What then? Well, it will continue to circulate forever, possibly becoming airborne.

I fail to understand how our own CDC is so overconfident about stopping this when it has exploded in numbers in W. Africa. This is a joke.

CDC = Center for Disease Continuation
WHO = Worldwide Horrific Outbreak

In a nutshell:

The CDC, state, federal and all the other interested party's cannot afford panic. The most important response to an emerging threat to public safety is controlling the message, and shaping the public's response.....damage control is the common term.

I hate to put this in such sharp terms, but, during the cold war there existed some plans/practicals for the response to a nuclear exchange, where in certain scenarios it would be more prudent NOT to warn a certain population of a imminent hit on their city, for fear that the resulting panic would expose more people out in the open to the blast...considering the fact that a population did not have time to escape the blast radius anyway. In a rather morbid/ pragmatic way more people were calculated to survive.

The point is the CDC gains nothing by creating panic, panic is the governments enemy. The playbook says control-mitigate damage, maintain order, carefully disseminate information that is use-full, and not damaging to the overall objective.

What I find most fascinating is how the rhetoric changes. As the outbreak unfolded the CDC was sounding the alarm bell, warning of dire consequences. There is no question that the messages were alarmist. But since yesterday we see the persona of confidence from the CDC, no panic, no danger to the public etc; everything is under control...

"I fail to understand how our own CDC is so overconfident about stopping this when it has exploded in numbers in W. Africa. This is a joke."

They are not overconfident, they are scared, they just cant tell us that.

Hey Elver, great Thread and I agree with pretty much with you on all of your posts here on AFT!

Pheasant you are so right. Spot on!

True Techno..You are right about the borders!...$$$$$..SICK THOUGH!

My comment..A bad panic may set in before Ebola really starts to rear it's ugly head! Look at how people react a day before a snowstorm arrives!

It would be pretty surprising if he didn't infect others.  If it was winter time, the virus would also be able to stick to surfaces for several days.  it's only going to get worse as time goes on.

Obama just said a couple weeks ago that the chances of Ebola in the U.S. is very low.  Apparently that wasn't 100% accurate.  Nor is the notion that it will "easily" be contained. 

Anyway, I thought they stopped most commercial flights out of Liberia, but since they haven't, all countries should be on the look out TODAY for cases as Liberia is still pumping them out from its airport. 

Difficult=expensive in the minds of the rich and powerful. 

Many European papers leading with the same headline that says it all

"First Ebola victim in America was sent home with antibiotics".

By the time these bozos figure out quarantine we will be at the bend over and kiss our sweet posteriors goodbye time.

Edit I stand corrected Dr was told of his travel.

It's been reported a few places about the EMTs being quarantined... does that mean he was taken by ambulance to the hospital?  Was that the first time or the second time or both?  Wouldn't that cut down on his number of contacts if that was he only method of travel in those days?

You are right... but it's a fact that patients lie... didn't you ever watch House... LOL.

drumfish wrote: They are saying he did inform of his travels. I have edited my remarks. And I am eating crow.

Stop choking!  You do not deserve it.  Go stuff the crow in the first doctor!

Me too... but that does not mean that other patients don't or won't lie.  They have ran in West Africa.  It breaks my heart to hear them report that his sister said he told them he was from Liberia & they sent him home, tells me they were scared & really were trying to seek help.

CDC Dr just on TV saying they have been stressing that one of the most important questions is travel history. Have they been to Africa if so where when accessing patients. Now that ebola has been in US it adds a different perspective.
Then again people who have been in Africa are traveling from affected regions into the US just like Dallas patient right now. It reminds me of a quote:Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

If it spreads in any US community, The travel history will become mote.

Ebola could pop up in 20 more cities and they'd still not restrict travel from West Africa!!!