Don't give the terrorists any ideas
[QUOTE=DJD;538678]We work in hospitals and the Nursecall product we sell, install and service is sold nationwide. We expect to be getting updates from the manufacture as to how this could effect our position in hospitals. Naturally we have the product we sell installed in hospitals all over the country (including Dallas) so getting behind the scenes info could be interesting.
We have to get certified with hospital infection control policies and Hospital Engineer programs on a regular basis. They discuss MRSA, aspergillosis and many other infections that we could have a hand in spreading by not following the hospital guidelines. Ebola may be another topic real soon if this doesn't get nipped in the bud. Can you imagine what a few infected folks wandering around could do to our country??? This thing could get tied to illegal immigration in a heartbeat if it's found out that an illegal has the disease. What about terrorists? Look at how tough it would be to battle that!?!?!?? Yeah ok I may be stretching it a little but I just don't think we have been told the whole truth yet.[/QUOTE]
I also fear that they might use Ebola or some other biological organism to spread fear in the USA and to disrupt our country.
I'd vote to put a ban on flights coming out of the afflicted areas in West Africa. But then that would have to be managed by all the other countries in the world to be effective. As anyone could fly to another country out of West Africa and then hop a flight to the USA from that new country. So it may not work. But I'd still ban all flights out of that area to the USA. Better to control as many as we can than to say we should not do anything just because we can't stop them all. Stopping 90 or even 10% is better than not stopping any of them. IMHO
I'd also tell the Congress to vote to spend emergency money and give more funding to the Government Agencies that are helping to try to stop the spread of Ebola. The CDC needs more funding not less. And remember that the CDC is an ADVISORY agency NOT AN ENFORCEMENT Agency. So they have no authority to tell the Hospital in TX what they can and can't do. All they can do is advise them. The people who have the real authority to quarantine people in TX is the TX county Health Departments and the State's Health Agency. State rights you all love so much is responsible for that being the case. But then there are times when the State's don't have the expertise and money to handle some things and they need help from the Federal Government.
The USA has never had to face this EBOA virus before and it going to take some time to get this figured out. But they need to hurry up and get it right the first time. TX Presbyterian didn't get it right at all and had two of their ICU nurses contract the EBOLA virus. They failed as the nurse who treated the other sick nurse told the Press recently. That ICU nurse told of what was going on behind the wall of that TX Hospital in Dallas. Now the two sick nurse are in other special Ebola Hospitals that have cared for other Ebola patients without getting their staff infected. They had to get rid of those two sick nurses as most of their other nurse were threatening to walk off the job down in TX. I would not continue to work there either if they didn't provide their employees with the proper hazmat suits that protected them from the virus. Tvec suits are for working with asbestos and not infectious organisms that are living and can replicate themselves in our bodies. I've been in charge of many Asbestos Abatement Projects and am fully familiar with the work place procedures that control and prevent the release of asbestos fibers into the environment. From negative air enclosures to decontamination showers and clean rooms and air testing I've been involved with supervising these jobs in Commercial Buildings such as Schools and Hospitals. I'd rather deal with asbestos any day vs dealing with some thing like an Ebola Virus.
