Ebola, not to scare you, but has the whitehouse really considered everything?


This is the information being provided at thewhitehouse.gov: [my comments in black]
 
EBOLA CANNOT BE SPREAD THROUGH THE AIR, WATER,
FOOD IN THE U.S., OR CASUAL CONTACT WITH SOMEONE
WHO HAS NO SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE.
YOU CAN ONLY GET THE EBOLA VIRUS
THROUGH DIRECT CONTACT WITH:
• Body fluids of a person who is sick with
   or has died from Ebola
• Objects contaminated with the virus
• Infected animals [Well now, what if the animal is someone's dog and comes around to be petted? What symptoms does an animal show? What if the dog gets wet and does it's characteristic 'shake?' The President says that it can't be spread through the air but we know that you CAN get it through a sneeze that travels through the air and what if that sneeze just happens to be the victim's first symptom? What if the victim works at a restaurant and goes in because the employer doesn't offer paid sick leave; what if he/she handles your food/water? Or a sick maid makes your bed?]

EBOLA CAN ONLY BE CONTRACTED FROM SOMEONE WHO IS
SHOWING SYMPTOMS.
EBOLA ONLY SPREADS WHEN PEOPLE
ARE SHOWING SYMPTOMS. [What if the victim is like my wife who drops aspirin at the first sign of a fever. Would the aspirin or other NSAID hide the fever from airport authorities? Other than fever, what symptoms are there for us to discern? Hell, it might just look like a cold to us--it even has fooled the medical industry]

A patient must have symptoms to spread the
disease to others. After 21 days, if an exposed
person does not develop symptoms, they will
not become sick with Ebola. [This is the only part I believe to be true. The rest is meant to lull us into a false sense of security. Until the ebola epidemic is contained in Africa, the President should demand that employers get themselves a $10 remote Temperature sensor and test everyone that works for them--and if feverish, send them to a hospital (with pay and this is not my agenda for I'm retired). This should be ordered in whatever city the CDC deems necessary to contain ebola. We may not be a third world country lacking in medical care but we have something perhaps more dangerous: mass transportation and the ability to travel to different parts of the country and plenty of fever-reducing pills and cough suppressants to mask ebola.]

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