Saturday, November 1, 2014

Attention Future Camp Residents



From Forbes, on quarantines:
The critical reckoning over forced quarantines is still to come.
Consider this scenario.
Sometime in January or February – as the Ebola epidemic explodes out of West Africa – we’ll start experiencing larger, more frequent outbreaks in American cities. With the flu as a background to confound suspected cases of Ebola, public health departments will be hard pressed to “track and trace” all of the potential “contacts” when perhaps dozens of Ebola cases pop up in their cities.
Unable to pinpoint who might have come in close contact with Ebola, and be at risk of contracting the virus, they will reach for their most absolute tool – forced quarantine – as a way to mitigate threat amidst uncertainty. The number of people who will be placed into forced quarantines could easily number in the hundreds.
If this scenario sounds far fetched, take a closer look at the accelerating epidemic in West Africa. If the rate of spread doesn’t start to subside soon (there are some encouraging signs of deceleration in Liberia, but spread is accelerating in Guinea and Sierra Leone) it’s just a matter of time before Ebola breaks out to a region with closer connections to the U.S. — like Latin America. Once it goes to such a market, and becomes epidemic, the U.S. would be importing far more than the sporadic case.
This begs the question, how will state and federal governments exercise their authority to quarantine people in such a scenario. As we have seen from recent events, that legal power is sweeping, poorly defined, and absolute.

RTWT.

And ponder what you're going to do if you haven't planned ahead, or moved outside the likely corral before the barricades go up. Think hard, and plan early.

Remember the words of the Sage of Gainesville:
You Don't Have To Live Like A Refugee

4 comments:

  1. Another potential case in Oregon:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/10/female-visitor-from-west-africa-hospitalized-in-oregon-with-ebola-symptoms/

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  2. Hell, I also own and ride a bicycle.

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  3. I think that the places to avoid are the places where:

    1. There are lots of people from the parts of Africa where we are going to see these people coming from, and

    2. Those places where there are lots of lib progs who like to preen about how inclusive they are and who would stupidly welcome people from Ebola stricken places.

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  4. Wow, that woman in Oregon arrived last Tuesday and within days is showing symptoms:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/female-visitor-from-west-africa-hospitalized-in-oregon-with-ebola-symptoms/

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