Whos Asking these 10 Questions About Ebola? • By Lee DeCovnick Here are ten questions concerning Ebola that need to be asked of the CDC and President Obama. 1. Why doesn’t the United States have a mandatory quarantine period of 28 days before allowing any traveler who has visited West Africa in the past 90 days, to enter our country? 2. As Ebola cases continue to crop up in America, what actions are planned so that the virus will not enter the animal population of antelopes, porcupines, rodents, dogs, and pigs, and thus become a untreatable and unreachable reservoir of the virus that will never disappear? 3. When will the State Department cancel the 13,500 visitors visas from the three West African countries that currently have Ebola epidemics? What is the State Department waiting for? 4. “Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, how do we plan to protect ourselves from importing clusters of Ebola that will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine? 5. Canadian Ebola studies indicate that aerosolized Ebola is “strongly suspected” to be infectious through droplets in the air. Anthony Banbury, the U.N. Secretary Generals Special Representative, has said there is a nightmare prospect the deadly disease will become airborne the longer it moves around in human hosts in the virulent melting pot that is West Africa. What measures are being taken to prevent the potential mutation of this virus? 6. How many hospital beds in the United States have negative air pressure enclosures plus air exhaust handling systems that meets the criteria for Bio Safety Level (BSL) 3 or 4? 7. If an outbreak of Ebola occurs in a major US city such as New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, is this government prepared to quarantine five to eight million citizens from land, sea and air travel to stop the spread of the virus? How many deaths from such an outbreak would trigger such quarantine? 8. How many Ebola deaths nationally would trigger a Presidential Executive Order declaring martial law, nationalizing the distribution of food, energy, healthcare and information? 9. Will American troops serving in West Africa and infected with Ebola, be returned to the United States for treatment, or will they remain in Africa to lessen the chance of contagion here at home? 10. Ebola knows no racial, economic or political boundaries. Ebola’s lethality (50%) is higher than the 14th century’s Black Death (30% to 40%) or the 1918 influenza pandemic’s (15%); a viral infection that killed 3% to 6% of entire human population living on the planet in 18 months. Why are so few of us raising our voices - demanding that our government begin implementing common-sense epidemiological safeguards against Ebola unnecessarily infecting more Americans?
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:43:46 +0000
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