Erik Rush writes:
This week, Drs. Thomas Frieden and Anthony Fauci, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases respectively, doubled down on their propaganda, illogic and misrepresentations regarding the procedures for handling the Ebola virus and the dynamics of contagion.
On Fox News’ “The Kelly File” Tuesday, Frieden gave nebulous assurances that all possible precautions were being taken to combat the spread of Ebola in the U.S., and stated that “we’ve been treating Ebola for decades.”The truth is, Frieden ruled out a travel ban FROM West Africa. That is to say, he made it clear there will be no ban against people from West Africa traveling to the United States.
So, is this normally the way Ebola is treated?
Erik Rush goes on:
... all of this experience (in "treating" Ebola) has been restricted to the African continent, where conditions are so abysmal that absolute containment has been the norm. This has included quarantines, travel bans, martial law and the burning of entire villages after outbreaks.
As far as treatment goes, the only thing anyone has been able to do for Ebola patients to date is to make them as comfortable as possible until they either recover or die.That doesn't sound like "treatment" to me. That sounds like isolation.
In fact, I have heard it said, the only thing that has stopped an outbreak of Ebola in the past is the fact that it has affected rural areas which are natural isolated from other areas. And that once it works it's way through the local population, it is effectively over because it has no other human to affect.
Here's an interview from NPR, with a Ebola healthcare worker, July 2014:
Can you describe the treatment center?
It's basically a compound with a series of different tents. There are tents where people get suited up to go in. Another tent seems to be for storage, and one of the tents contains a lab. Then there's a double fence about 3 1/2 feet high, made of orange plastic mesh. They designed the fence so people can see where the patients are, so it wouldn't seem as if the patients are completely walled off.
Why a double fence?
So no one can get within 6 feet of someone who has Ebola. In case a patient from the isolation area reaches out or vomits, [Doctors Without Borders] wants to make sure there won't be any accidental contamination.
How do the doctors record information on the patients?
Doctors go into the isolation area completely suited up, do their rounds and write down what's happening with patients. Then they stand next to the fence and shout out to people on the other side of the fence [information about each patient]. Say, for patient 105, the doctor says, "diarrhea, vomiting." Then the doctor's notes [made inside the isolation area] are burned.
Where do they burn the notes?
They have a big pit in the back.
What else do they burn?
They burn everything. They say nothing comes out of isolation — although obviously they're taking blood samples out. People come out. They strip off their protective gear, the Tyvek suits they put over their entire body and shoes.
When they get suited up, you do not see a bit of skin as they're going in. There are multiple layers of gloves, goggles, a mask. As they're coming out all that stuff gets stripped off. Some things like rubber aprons and boots are disinfected and reused. But they burn the whole suit. A suit costs about 60 euros [about $80], and they use 70 or 80 suits a day.
What do you know about the isolation area?
There are about nine tents inside, with patients separated by whether they are suspect, probable or confirmed cases.
Ok, so this tells us a lot. It tells us
1) the way to "treat" Ebola is to treat it as if it's going to kill anyone who comes in contact with it.
2) all clothes, notes, bodies, etc., must be burned. Nothing can be allowed to leave the Ebola tent.
3) EVEN INSIDE THE TENT, which is completely isolated from human beings, THERE ARE "PROBABLE" AND "SUSPECT" CASES. People who MIGHT have Ebola are put in the tent, even if the Doctors are not SURE they have Ebola.
So, if this is the case, do you believe Thomas Frieden when he implies he is doing everything he can do, and that it is reasonable to allow people to travel from Ebola Hot Zones INTO the United States?
Do you believe him?
2 comments:
No. Everything this administration has thus far stated has been an enormous clusterfark...no reason to lend credence to a single word coming from that direction. EVER.
Now perhaps someone can explain to me the recent press release from Doctors without borders that 9 of the 16 of their workers treating ebola have died.
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