The ‘impossible’ has happened. Ebola is now in the United States. More specifically, it is Dallas, Texas. Information coming out now is that this man flew to a European country, then to Dulles International Airport in Maryland and then down to Dallas, Texas. Timeline suggests that he was asymptomatic until a few days ago, when he went to the hospital and was told to go home, but came back 2 days later and got a ride in an ambulance that was NOT taken out of service until the official diagnosis came in. Did I forget to mention that he had close contact with children too? They are now staying home but last week they were in school when he first started showing symptoms. What a CLUSTER MESS. And ‘we’ have been ‘preparing’ and training and being oh so vigilant about ebola. Uhhuh.
I am not trying to cause any panic, but am going to be telling some truths here. There is no cure, no vaccine (of which most vaccines are only 40-70% effective) and the FDA is on a witch hunt against people who are talking about alternative ways of dealing with Ebola. WHO is saying that this strain of Ebola is becoming more ‘virulent’. Liberia is not on lockdown, but this man CAME FROM THERE. And apparently, so far, HE had no contact with anyone infected while there. Information and misinformation is flying all over the place. The CDC is not tracking all the people he may have come into contact with, just those who came in ‘close’ contact with him when he was obviously sick. Fact, they are still saying its not airborne, but Canadian scientists have proven that ‘fact’ to be incorrect. The hospital where the man is in ‘isolation’ does NOT have a ‘level 4’ biohazard unit, which means they are improvising. Children that he had direct contact with went to school. The ambulance and its workers, not to mention the doctors and nurses that dealt with him the first time just went into ‘quarantine’ when they finally figured out what was wrong with him. Fact, we already have a virus striking our children that is hospitalizing them at alarming rates and flu season is upon us. The CDC still says that if you aren’t symptomatic then you can’t infect someone else. They have ‘everything under control’ and ‘we have the BEST system to handle something like this’. Oh, and I forgot, apparently some sort of medicine to combat Ebola will be available by the end of the year with a vaccine potentially available early next year. AND our president who is ‘not worried about this’ signed and expanded an executive order to forcibly place individuals with flu like symptoms (but not those with the flu, but wait a minute, Ebola presents like the flu at first) into quarantine camps. Sounds to me like everything is under control…yep, yeah, sure….
My apologies for the sarcasm amongst the facts, we as a country need to be paying attention right now and be able to see through the word salads and assurances that all is well, because its NOT. Doctors and nurses are human beings and miss things, forget things, become tired or distracted. They are not infallible. Things HAPPEN. Like sending that guy HOME with prescriptions for antibiotics. They sent him HOME even though he told them he had recently been to Liberia.
We as Americans have been conditioned to show up at work even when sick, sometimes simply because we can’t afford to take a day or two off without loosing money or potentially our very job. We as Americans have a really bad habit of sending our children to school and daycare knowing full well that they are not feeling well. Again, because we can’t or won’t take off work or can’t find someone to stay with our children. And I forgot, big brother through No Child Left Behind demands doctors notes nowadays instead of just our word that our child is sick. My point here is this: We are setting ourselves up for an outbreak the likes we haven’t seen since the Spanish Flu, TB and Polio. We have forgotten in our arrogance and workaholic culture that our health is the most important thing we have as a country. And we forget that its not just about ‘us’ in the singular, but that we are connected to each other in intimate ways even though we don’t even know our neighbors. If you need any proof of this just look at how we handle the flu every year. We as a nation are NOT ready for an infectious disease. It is so far off our radar of possibility that denial and trusting the officials may very well cause a lot of deaths needlessly.
Again, I am not trying to scare anyone, I am making statements that I HOPE will wake you up and start thinking about things in more realistic terms. You are your best health advocate. And you are the only one who should be making decisions that are not only in your best interest, but also in the best interest of others. You don’t have to live in fear about ebola, but educate yourself, think about it, keep it simple and stay healthy. Pay attention to what is going on instead of trusting those in ‘authority’ that have everything under control. Prepare yourself to stay safe just in case Ebola does make it mainstream. That is the best hope and antidote we have against Ebola.
survivingshtfmom
survivingshtfmom 
Ebola, Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Our Southern Boarder
The fact that thousands of children have been scattered across country into our communities with little health screening is now a mute point. We are seeing a larger than normal outbreak of scabbies, hand-foot and mouth disease (which is in the same family as the entero virus 68 and polio). And while I cannot in good conscious say that the epidemic outbreak of EV-D68 and the mysterious polio like disease that is killing American Children is directly related to illegal immigration, I do feel illegal immigration is playing a role.
While the Liberals and main stream media had kept the focus on ‘the children’ (if a 15 year old or older counts as a ‘child’) there is a HUGE issue being ignored and buried by MSM of the drug cartels and MS13 members crossing into our country also. Not only that, but these guys are bringing in sex slaves to work the lucrative sex trade circuit here in the US via Europe and the southern boarder. These guys don’t play, they KILL as life is cheap on the other side of the boarder and in many parts of Africa, be it man, woman or child. Just ask the ranchers and others who live along the boarder and in the southwestern states what they have to deal with and what they see. You don’t leave the house in even broad daylight without a firearm if you value your life in certain areas.
Did I forget to mention the threat of extremists crossing over too?
Now we have General Kelly telling us that our southern boarder is an excellent way for Ebola to cross into our country and while at the moment an unlikely event, the threat is real because our southern boarder security is almost non-existent and our airports might as well have a welcome mat out. The sex trafficking of Africans is a booming business in Central America and Europe. So is human trafficking. And guess where the money is? America, Brazil, Argentina, England and Spain. And there is no ‘time’ off for not feeling good.
How would it work? Someone from Africa gets lured into the sex trade with promises of money or a job who is infected and doesn’t know it OR someone in a desperate attempt to get away from the uncontrolled infection in Africa gets the money together to migrate illegally if they can’t obtain the necessary legal documents to immigrate to the US. Once Ebola (or some other highly contagious disease) begins to develop in a Latin American country, panic will set in and we will see another massive migration of people as we saw earlier this year with ‘the children’ and we all know how that worked out.
Kelly passed on a story from a border checkpoint in Costa Rica — told to him by an American embassy official — in which five or six men from Liberia were waiting to cross into Nicaragua.
The group had flown into Trinidad and then traveled to Costa Rica hoping to travel up the Central American isthmus and into the U.S.
Given the length of the journey, “they could have been in New York City well within the incubation period for Ebola,” Kelly said.
We have a very porous immigration policy with Puerto Rica too (they are considered ‘Americans’) where infectious disease runs rampant with the high rates of prostitution and drug use. And lest we forgot the Carribean nations…the outcome of this country’s current immigration and national security policies spells disaster. We must control entry into our country. Its bad folks, really bad down there at our southern boarder. Our country is target #1 for immigration both legal and illegal and its just a matter of which time bomb blows up first.
Stay safe, be prepared…
Survivingshtfmom
Resources used:
http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/07/top-general-says-mexico-border-security-now-existential-threat-us/87958/
http://news.usni.org/2014/10/07/southcom-commander-ebola-outbreak-central-america-haiti-nightmare-scenario
http://www.consultancyafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373:human-trafficking-in-west-africa-a-multi-sectoral-issue&catid=59:discussion-papers&Itemid=280
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/10/10/are-isis-terrorists-sneaking-united-states-through-mexican-border