EBOLA Ebola false alarms

[Millwright]

With possible cases of ebola popping up every few hours, the "system" will be overloaded in short order.

It has already been established that there are only a handful of facilities that can properly deal with a full-blown ebola case.

Enforcing quarantines will be just as impossible in the same amount of time. The personnel needed to watch every door with a suspected case and everyone they have been in contact with don't exist.

I can see this as a scenario where wholesale isolation is the only recourse.

This could force TPTB to start using the... Tighten your tin-foil... detention facilities, once a few confirmed cases are known.

Does anybody see another way to even begin to keep the spread of ebola in check?



The other side of this is that they will be creating an ebola breeding ground amongst the exact group they are trying to promote in the US.



....just a wargaming scenario.

 

[Hansa44]

Not any different than trying to keep the flu in check every year.

 

[Illini Warrior]

somebody better start doing a better job of enforcing the quarantines when they are declared .... those family relatives of the TX Obola carrier were running all around town .... the damn kids showed up in school like there was nothing wrong .....

 

[Jonas Parker]

I'm wondering if Ebola isn't Obozo's election year "October surprise"...

 

[Red Baron]

The OP makes a good point.

I hate to say it but a recent guest on Coast To Coast AM made a compelling case that putting Ebola patients in regular hospitals, and all it entails, could cripple the ability of hospitals to deliver "normal" critical care to patients with non-Ebola needs.

The guest's solution was "virus camps" removed from hospitals that are already stressed providing care in normal circumstances.

When Ebola gets really bad, there will be no way to provide "heroic" care that ties up a hospitals and critical care doctors.

Truth be known, the best we can do is to isolate and make the victims as humanely comfortable as possible in an environment that does not endanger non-Ebola patients. Highly skilled medical professionals would not be required for this task. Half of the patients will die and hopefully the other half will live.

In a worse case scenario, rent out abandoned commercial space in more remote areas and burn them down when the outbreak is over. Cheaper, safer and more effective than tying up billion dollar medical facilities.

We don't have a cure for Ebola, we need to stop acting like there is a cure.

 

[BertaBurtonLake]

The OP makes a good point.

I hate to say it but a recent guest on Coast To Coast AM made a compelling case that putting Ebola patients in regular hospitals, and all it entails, could cripple the ability of hospitals to deliver "normal" critical care to patients with non-Ebola needs.

The guest's solution was "virus camps" removed from hospitals that are already stressed providing care in normal circumstances.

When Ebola gets really bad, there will be no way to provide "heroic" care that ties up a hospitals and critical care doctors.

Truth be known, the best we can do is to isolate and make the victims as humanely comfortable as possible in an environment that does not endanger non-Ebola patients. Highly skilled medical professionals would not be required for this task. Half of the patients will die and hopefully the other half will live.

In a worse case scenario, rent out abandoned commercial space in more remote areas and burn them down when the outbreak is over. Cheaper, safer and more effective than tying up billion dollar medical facilities.

We don't have a cure for Ebola, we need to stop acting like there is a cure.

This. There is no cure for Ebola, only treatment. Even with treatment, you may die. Having said that, people will see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear.

 

[Kris Gandillon]

The OP makes a good point.

I hate to say it but a recent guest on Coast To Coast AM made a compelling case that putting Ebola patients in regular hospitals, and all it entails, could cripple the ability of hospitals to deliver "normal" critical care to patients with non-Ebola needs.

The guest's solution was "virus camps" removed from hospitals that are already stressed providing care in normal circumstances.

When Ebola gets really bad, there will be no way to provide "heroic" care that ties up a hospitals and critical care doctors.

Truth be known, the best we can do is to isolate and make the victims as humanely comfortable as possible in an environment that does not endanger non-Ebola patients. Highly skilled medical professionals would not be required for this task. Half of the patients will die and hopefully the other half will live.

In a worse case scenario, rent out abandoned commercial space in more remote areas and burn them down when the outbreak is over. Cheaper, safer and more effective than tying up billion dollar medical facilities.

We don't have a cure for Ebola, we need to stop acting like there is a cure.

Given the scenario you describe (which I do not disagree with) I think the difference would be that the death rate would be much higher...probably 80-90% or so....rather than just 50%. We've only seen the 50% death rate when they get much better care than just being made "humanely comfortable".

 

[Maryh]

On this Respect for Life Sunday, I bet with this administration's moral mindset, directives will be released to euthanize the ebola patients - cheaper all the way around!

 

[Millwright]

With Sharpton saying that ebola was made to eradicate blacks and that demographic swallowing everything he says, there will be pandemic stupidity in the ghetto.

If it gets so bad as to warrant mass treatment facilities, you can bet they won't go to quarantine or treatment centers willingly.

Look at how the locals acted in Africa.

I would expect there would be similar reactions here.

Its not that I think ebola was designed to target blacks, but they seem to be the least likely to do what is necessary in terms of prevention. So far the importers are black and the African nationals congregate to some degree in predominantly black areas.


My guess is that an outbreak would center there.

 

[Red Baron]

O-Care is a form of rationing health care.

In reality, just another code word for euthenasia.

 

[Satanta]

Unfortunately euthanasia might be the only solution. If you get it then it might be a blessing.

Isolation is still a death setence but a painful one for what I have read.

Suppose they isolate-isolate where? In there homes? So you have Ebola Houses dotting the neighborhood? What about a person in a apartment?

Isolate at commercial buildings far out? Have to transport them there, then what?