Ebola: On Our Own?

As of today we have two official Ebola cases contracted and diagnosed within our own borders. On top of that we learned today that the CDC actually approved the exposure of a huge number of Americans to an active case of Ebola. The second American diagnosed with Ebola called the CDC before she made her cross-country airline flight to get approval for the trip. And she got it! (As reported by TheBlaze and FoxNews.)

With each passing day it looks more like the American people are on their own with the Ebola threat. I have written about that threat in two previous articles. I wrote those safety guidelines under the assumption that Public Health Agencies would adopt a more cautious approach based on the way we handle Tuberculosis, HIV, Syphilis, and other high mortality diseases.

Apparently I was wrong to make that assumption.

While I stand by my previous recommendations, all of which remain valid for anyone who encounters an Ebola infected person, without rational cooperation from Public Health officials those recommendations won’t help you a whole lot. We are on our own if this foolishness continues!

Quarantine is a dirty word because it is a harsh method. For Ebola quarantine means among other things:

Not allowed in hospitals;

Not allowed to leave whatever building in which found;

Not allowed to touch another person at all;

Not allowed within 15 feet of another person.

Quarantine means violation of any of these four points is an automatic death penalty. Even then we’re not safe because the body is infectious so long as there are any fluids and/or living tissues remaining. That’s 24 to 72 hours minimum depending on manner of death. It sounds like a bad zombie movie, doesn’t it? It’s not. What I’m describing is Medium Case outcome if we do not control this thing. Worst case would be reminiscent of the Black Plague – burning bodies in the streets because there are not enough uninfected live people to bury them all.

The American people are not constitutionally capable of this kind of Quarantine. I must conclude that the government is actively encouraging a widespread epidemic. In this nation that means devastation unseen since the Black Plague. You can’t touch the living; you can’t touch the dead; you can’t even stand close to them without risking your own death.

It is time to demand action. Rioting in Ferguson or St. Louis is suicide by Ebola. If we must riot, let us riot against the Government Conspiracy of Ebola!

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