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The Ebola Effect Arrives: Half Of Americans Will Avoid International Air Travel Out Of Ebola Fears
Remember when Obama said "Putin was isolated", despite the Russian having the explicit support of the BRIC nations, and thus at least half of the world's population? Well, as irony would always have it with this particular US president, the tables have promptly turned, and paradoxically where ISIS failed to "terrorize" Americans into a state of paralyzed daze, the West African virus has succeeded in isolating none other than America, and as a brand new Reuters poll reveals, nearly half of Americans are so concerned about the Ebola outbreak that they are avoiding international air travel!
In other words, global trade, commerce and simply transit, already declining thanks to the global depression rematerializing now that the Fed's latest placebo round has worn off, are about to slam into a brick wall.
The poll results come as health officials said the second nurse infected at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had flown from Ohio to Texas with a slight fever the day before she was diagnosed.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which surveyed 1,577 Americans 18 or older online, found nearly 80 percent were concerned about the Ebola outbreak, with 41 percent saying they were "very concerned" and 36 percent "somewhat concerned."
And while the one thing that is certain to provoke an even greater popular panic at the invisible terror, is at least one more Ebola case developing on US soil, the whistleblowing admission by another nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian will hardly boost America's confidence in the way the Ebola crisis is being handled.
NBC Chicago reports that a Dallas nurse who cared for a co-worker who contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said the facility was unprepared to fight the disease and she would “do anything” to avoid being treated there if she were ever to fall ill with the potentially deadly virus.
“I can no longer defend my hospital,” Briana Aguirre said Thursday on NBC's “Today" show.
Aguirre claims that before Thomas Eric Duncan arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian nursing staff had not been trained in how to treat an Ebola patient beyond being offered an “optional seminar.”
Aguirre did not treat Duncan, who died on Oct. 8. But she said that co-workers told her that he was put in an area with up to seven other patients and it took three hours before the hospital first contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She called the situation a "chaotic scene."
"Our infectious disease department was contacted to ask, what is our protocol. And their answer was, we don’t know. We’re going to have to call you back,” she said.
“We never talked about Ebola and we probably should have,” Aguirre said, adding that staff was “never told what to look for.”
Well, at least Obama will be kind enough to tell the thousands of reservists he just announced he will be mobiziling by executive order and sending to west Africa precisely what it is they should look for: a virus. One which they should preferably shoot on site.
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If it lowers airfares, I am all for it.
I was not planning on going anywhere anyway. I have traveled the world to some degree and saw what needs to be seen in order to be "cultured". It was great to see all of the wonderful things that cultures can do but I did not stay; I came back to the rural setting where I grew up. I am still the same and I still say the same thing: I am not worried about goverments from other countries but rather worried about people from my own nation and it's form of governement. I am not ever going to deal with international travel again. I am not leaving.
Get off my lawn.
But I like your lawn! I just want to put up this small tent....
obungle doesnt want to restrict africa as not to hurt their economies, but now that the cdc has fucked up domestacly they are going to see much larger drop off in air travel. As it should be. so many fuck ups already we are already all within 3-4 degrees of seperation from people who have come in contact with the 2 nurses.
Sending the one nurse to Maryland. Different Agency.
"Houston, we have a problem."
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I could never figure out why Americans tolerated traveling when the TSA showed up one day like the plague
They're a plague as much as Ebola ever will be
And you can probably contain or get rid of Ebola more easily than the TSA
The Obama's NWO troops stopped the spread of ebola in Aftica and they will do so here at least until after the election.
I've got a planned business trip to Colombo SL later this year.
That's a long ass flight > Seattle > Taipei > Bangkok > Colombo and back.
I'm not making it until this country gets it's shit together and clamps down on screening. I have the GOES program and that's great to breeze thru immigration when I get back, but doesn't change being packing in alum tube for 30+ hours of recycled air.
And by that time other countries might well be quarantining MERIKANS due our suicidal tendencies of Obola.
Ebola is for Christmas
The part of the American population who doesn't have a passport is avoiding international travel, what a loss to the world ...
Gulfstream just introduced a new line of jets. Nothing like a brand new, bespoke interior G600 to ferry you off to the safety of a private island.
Half of Americans don't even have passports and if they did they wouldn't have the funds to travel internationally. For that matter they can't afford to travel in the states. My idea of traveling these days is going to the grocery store. When I am feeling rich I get enough meat for all four of us!
Errrr no.
Only 8% of Americans have passports.
"Essentially any hospital in the country can take care of Ebola. You don't need a special hospital room to do it...You do need a private room with a private bathroom." - Dr. Tom Frieden, Oct. 2, 2014.
Do-Not-Panic!
If Ebola gets loose in the US, 60% of Americans will stop traveling, stop going to work, and stop eating at restaurants. The other 40% will be dead!
Travel in Europe will become incredibly cheap and safe
See
Waiting for the third shoe to drop : see
https://www.academia.edu/8816411/Rogue_Swan_EU_disintegration
I thought Americans were already avoiding flights out of fear of TSA/DHS.
2 guys at work are due to go the US in two weeks. $50 says they don't.
Horowitz (1998) was deliberate and unambiguous when he explained the threat of new diseases in his text, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola – Nature, Accident or Intentional. In his interview with Dr. Robert Strecker in Chapter 7, the discussion, in the early 1970s, made it obvious that the war was between countries that hosted the KGB and the CIA, and the ‘manufacture’ of ‘AIDS-Like Viruses’ was clearly directed at the other. In passing during the Interview, mention was made of Fort Detrick, “the Ebola Building,” and ‘a lot of problems with strange illnesses’ in “Frederick [Maryland].” By Chapter 12 in his text, he had confirmed the existence of an American Military-Medical-Industry that conducts biological weapons tests under the guise of administering vaccinations to control diseases and improve the health of “black Africans overseas.” The book is an excellent text, and all leaders plus anyone who has interest in science, health, people, and intrigue should study it. I am amazed that African leaders are making no acknowledgements or reference to these documents.
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According to Sihuan management, the drug has been in development for five years and has been effective in animal tests conducted on mice. As of yet, there have been no clinical trials of JK-05; the company plans to test the drug out first on Chinese nationals who have contracted the disease in Africa. Tests on African nationals would require international approval.