Thursday’s Sacramento Bee headlined the story on its front page with a rather frightening photo of a victim being buried by people totally swathed in protective clothing because Ebola is very contagious via bodily fluids:
It’s serious stuff, the [...]]]>
Thursday’s Sacramento Bee headlined the story on its front page with a rather frightening photo of a victim being buried by people totally swathed in protective clothing because Ebola is very contagious via bodily fluids:
It’s serious stuff, the highest level of WHO alert, but curiously there is no national quarantine:
WHO says Ebola outbreak is an international health emergency, Washington Post, Jul 19, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya – The World Health Organization took the rare step Wednesday of classifying an ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as a “public health emergency of international concern,” just days after a first case of the virus was confirmed in the major city of Goma, on the border with Rwanda.
The last time the global health body declared an international emergency for Ebola was during the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people. The designation means this outbreak qualifies for a higher level of global vigilance and mobilization to stem its spread.
Ebola began spreading in Congo’s conflict-ridden North Kivu province last summer and has infected more than 2,500 people and killed nearly 1,700, according to official Health Ministry figures. . . .
The declaration should not be used “as an excuse to impose trade or travel restrictions, which would have a negative impact on the response and on the lives and livelihoods of people in the region,” said Robert Steffen, chairman of the Emergency Committee.
Meanwhile, illegal alien Africans are now streaming through America’s open border. Fox News interviewed a young Camaroonian man in May who was apparently willing to spend a lot of money and travel thousands of miles to steal a “better life” in this country rather than work to build one at home:
N.b: the population of Africa is now 1.3 billion persons.
Open borders admit contagious disease as well as job-stealing aliens. One example was Ebola Tom (pictured) who traveled to the United States from Liberia in 2014 to mooch first-world healthcare as he knew he would receive in stupid-generous America. The nine days of medical treatment in a Dallas hospital cost $500,000, and he had no insurance.
Unfortunately for America, there’s a fair amount of overlap between the Ebola outbreak regions and areas migrants are leaving.
It’s reported that African aliens are crossing the US border in “record numbers” — though the actual figures are a little sketchy and are sure to climb. Still, the Texas Monthly detailed that from June 4 — 18, around four hundred foreigners from Angola and Congo arrived in San Antonio; and the Border Patrol says it detained 740 Africans in the Del Rio sector in the first two weeks of June.
Unfortunately, too many American communities are welcoming the Africans and other aliens rather than treating them as invaders. As a result, the United States is increasingly seen as the World Welfare Office, rather than the home of the citizens.
]]>The current open border brings disease which endangers the people of the United States: some, like measles had been eradicated, and others, like Zika and [...]]]>
The current open border brings disease which endangers the people of the United States: some, like measles had been eradicated, and others, like Zika and Ebola, are entirely imported from abroad in recent years.
In one case, an eight-month pregnant Honduran “visiting” America gave birth to an anchor Zika baby whose lifetime healthcare cost to US taxpayers is estimated at $1-10 million.
Ebola is now having a flare-up in Africa just at a time when gaggles of Africans are crossing America’s open border along with the rest of the world. Five hundred Africans have arrived via that route since May 30. In 2014, a Liberian man with Ebola travelled here to receive first-world medicine despite the disease being extremely contagious. His nine days of care before death cost taxpayers $500,000.
So the public health threat from open borders is very real, getting worse and is not being widely discussed — although Tammy Bruce made a good case for more attention when she appeared with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday.
Spare audio:
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: While Republicans fuss about the details of Austrian economics and worry about tariffs, the U.S. border is getting closer and closer to total and utter collapse, and it’s not hyperbole.
Last May, the Border Patrol apprehended the highest number of illegal border crossers in 13 years. This is massive consequences for the country that we’re not talking about.
Tammy Bruce is thinking about them, though. She is a radio host and President of the Independent Women’s Voice and we’re happy to have her on tonight. Tammy, thanks very much for joining us.
TAMMY BRUCE: Thanks, Tucker.
CARLSON: So walk us through what you think some of the more obvious ramifications of this border collapse might be?
BRUCE: Well, we already know, in the broad sense, and we’ve had this conversation for years, about the problems people face on the migrant trail when it comes to sex trafficking, when it comes to the coyotes, when it comes to sexual assaults, et cetera, and the problems that children face as well.
And then what happens in the aftermath when people are here in the country? The Kate Steinle situation, individuals who are being protected in sanctuary cities, criminal illegal aliens. But the fact of the matter is, this health crisis is an element that no one is really discussing.
The team at Independent Women’s Voice — as you noted, I’m President of — has realized and has determined that our own government, when we’ve been talking about of course, infectious diseases, like measles, we thought we eradicated it. We’re on track now to the end of this week at probably at about a thousand cases in 26 states.
Typhus is moving through Los Angeles. The CDC is now warning about tuberculosis. We have new outbreaks of Ebola. Certainly Zika — that’s in Congo — Zika, in Brazil, et cetera.
And what’s not being dealt with here is the fact that you’ve got 144,000 as an example, moving across this border, none of whom, of course, we know if they’ve been vaccinated. We hear the admonition appropriately about the importance of vaccinations. But what we’ve also determined, Tucker, is that the CDC only requires proof of vaccination for people applying for migrant visas legally.
If you are trying to enter using a non-migrant visa, the temporary visa to visit, you are not required to show proof of vaccination.
So it’s an interesting ball that’s been dropped at the Federal level, and then of course at the border. The chaos here is certainly — we’re worried about American families and their health — but the people almost at the front line who are extremely vulnerable are the migrants themselves.
The Border Patrol announced last week that they’ve captured a group of about 161 people from Africa, Congo, Angola, et cetera, and of course, Congo now is dealing with another outbreak of Ebola.
Imagine with these kinds of groups emerging. Individuals coming in from Brazil with Zika; families coming up from El Salvador — the mix of what these individuals are facing in the caravan and then when they’re placed in communal areas, or end up homeless in cities where the infrastructure is collapsed, because they are so many.
IWV has started a petition. This is this is our news for today. Something has to happen. We’ve launched a petition IWV.org telling the White House that we must redouble the effort for border security.
Beyond all the other political issues we’ve heard about on this issue, this transcends that. This is about every family and every human being caught up in this chaos. Thank you. It’s important. Thank you, sir.
One such is Ebola, a mainly African disease that appeared in the US a few years ago when Ebola Tom traveled here from Liberia to get free First World medical care.
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One such is Ebola, a mainly African disease that appeared in the US a few years ago when Ebola Tom traveled here from Liberia to get free First World medical care.
Below, a map of Ebola cases in Africa from 2014.
Now Ebola is back, and Africans are coming here, along with everyone else on earth who has heard about America’s worsened border laxity. I reported the other day about an apparently healthy Cameroonian man who had gotten as far as southern Mexico on his way here. There’s 1.3 billion more on the continent he came from, so don’t think only Hondurans are coming.
Tucker Carlson discussed the topic last week with Fox’s explainer doctor, Marc Siegel, who focused on the medical implications.
Tucker asked whether it is now even politically “possible to block people coming from any other country in the world” in the face of danger to the American people from a killer epidemic. It sounds like not so much.
This is where the politically correct view of America as Welfare Office for the World has brought us: if any human on earth (currently 7.7 billion persons) has a health problem or wants a better job, then the United States has to admit them.
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: In other developing news tonight, there are new fears that Ebola could be heading to this country. One of the worst outbreaks of that horrifying disease in history is underway tonight and spreading fast. A thousand people have already died of Ebola in the Congo. It’s one of the deadliest infectious diseases known to man, of course, fewer than one third of the people who display symptoms survive.
Just five years ago, there was a major outbreak of Ebola that made it to our country. How concerned should we be if at all this time around? For those answers, we go to the man, we always go to NYU medical professor, Dr. Marc Siegel joins us tonight. Doctor, thanks very much for coming on.
DR. MARC SIEGEL: Hi, Tucker.
CARLSON: So this seems like a development really in in the history of Ebola, a thousand people. Should we be concerned?
SIEGEL: Yes, we should. And I’ll tell you why, Tucker, because it’s in an area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is not an infrastructure, where there is militia swarming around over 119 Ebola clinics — they have been attacked by militia. So it’s a security problem in addition to a health problem.
It’s also erupting right now. We’ve had over 100 cases in the past week alone. You said a thousand deaths out of 1,500 cases over the last year. One hundred in the past week alone.
The World Health Organization is in the middle of this, but they don’t have money. There’s not enough vaccines. Here’s a good development since 2016: we now have a highly effective vaccine. It’s been given to a hundred thousand people; that may sound like a lot. It needs to be given to millions. We don’t have the vaccines, and people are dying without even knowing they have Ebola.
Forty percent of the deaths, Ebola is identified after the person dies. It is erupting. It’s spreading. It’s getting out of control.
CARLSON: Interesting. But Ebola, at least, as it has been explained in the Western media, it seems like it would be kind of hard to miss. I mean, you hemorrhage from various orifices. I mean, it’s horrible. And people don’t know they have it?
SIEGEL: They don’t know they have it because there’s no one around there identifying it. There’s no healthcare workers in the region. World Health Organization — people have been killed. It’s not a situation — granted, someone that knows infectious diseases or even medicine is going to be able to identify it.
Now again, it’s going to spread to neighboring countries, I believe. Here’s one positive thing about it. It’s very hard to spread. You can only spread it if you come in contact with secretions, with blood. So it’s not spread casually.
So even if a traveler were to bring it here, which happened in 2014, with Craig Spencer and others, it will only spread if proper precautions are taken. If another case, God forbid shows up in the United States, hopefully they’ll isolate that case, it won’t spread here.
But there, it’s an enormous problem. People themselves don’t know what it is. They know they have some serious, horrible disease. They don’t know it’s Ebola.
CARLSON: It’s unbelievable. Ebola, of course, is far from the only deadly communicable disease floating around the globe. Do you think politically it would be possible to block people coming from any other country in the world? Could we actually do anything in the face of an epidemic at this point?
SIEGEL: What we usually do in a case like this is we bring more and more of our workers in rather than blocking travelers. But if it gets to the point where I said a hundred cases in the past week, we were considering that back in 2014, if it gets to the point where we start having thousands and thousands of cases and nothing is being done internally.
Now, the Democratic Republic of Congo is trying to help. Their Health Ministry is doing a lot. But again the militias and the security problem there, UN Forces are there, but nothing with what we need. This is becoming not just a health issue, but also an issue of having to bring in armies and a mess — a total, total mess and it’s not diminishing, it’s growing and it’s going to spread to neighboring countries in Africa.
CARLSON: I’m not surprised at all. Doctor, thanks very much for your perspective. Great to see you.
ATTKISSON: I called CDC not long ago and said how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of ebola [...]]]>
ATTKISSON: I called CDC not long ago and said how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of ebola and they said 1,400. I said, ‘Where is that on your website, these updates?‘ They said we’re not putting it on the web, so I think there an effort to control the message and to tamp it down. This is public information we have a right to and I think the media should not hype it, but should cover it.
I would be interested in more details, such as how many of the 1400 persons are visitors or immigrants from west Africa. Did Attkisson inquire about that? The President has the power to stop travel from infected nations to the US, but he would never block Africans to protect Americans from disease carriers like Ebola Tom (pictured).
As it happens, Sharyl Attkisson will be appearing live on C-SPAN’s viewer call-in program Washington Journal tomorrow morning (Tuesday). Perhaps some interested citizen will inquire further about the borders and sovereignty component of the ebola issue. (Contact info: journal@c-span.org and @cspanwj)
]]>You really cannot make this stuff up: there’s a deadly plague, so let’s bring it to America.
In the Fox News clip following, reporter Adam Housley remarked about the high level of officials who are planning to import ebola:
This State Department memo has seen by Nancy Powell, the ambassador to India. She is leading Ebola coalition for the Department of State. Also seen potentially by Pat Kennedy Undersecretary for Management you might remember the name from some of the Benghazi decision that were made. It’s basically been cleared by the highest levels of the State Department. So when we hear in briefings that there has been no plan as far as the State Department knows they may not be telling the truth or may not be communicating with each other. This apparently has been seen at some of the highest levels.
Also in the video, former UN Ambassador John Bolton remarked, “This is about the worst idea dealing with ebola I can think of.” Greta van Susteren found the proposed policy “so profoundly stupid.”
What was the point of sending US troops to Africa to build medical facilities if the crazed politicians in Washington planned to grab patients and bring them to the US for treatment? The soldiers are being endangered for foolish political do-goodery and will have to be quarantined upon their return. Why is this America’s job anyway? Where is the United Nations?
Americans are not confident about how the government is handling the ebola crisis. An Associated Press-GfK poll from last week found plenty of mistrust. For example, only one in five approve of the CDC’s work on the disease.
And apart from the danger of spreading disease, what about the cost to taxpayers at a time when healthcare for Americans is becoming more expensive and harder to find? Ebola Tom Duncan (pictured) cost the taxpayers $500,000 for nine days of intense medical care.
What’s the plan here? Some of the talk has been about NGO people, medics — that sort — being the persons to be rescued, but not including the poorest Africans will bring charges of racism, so lots of them will have to be part of the mix.
Will the Africans who recover be allowed to remain as immigrants? Will there be an Ebola Visa, courtesy of President Obama?
The Washington Times has more details:
]]>State Department plans to bring foreign Ebola patients to U.S., Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan, October 28, 2014
The State Department has quietly made plans to bring Ebola-infected doctors and medical aides to the U.S. for treatment, according to an internal department document that argued the only way to get other countries to send medical teams to West Africa is to promise that the U.S. will be the world’s medical backstop.
Some countries “are implicitly or explicitly waiting for medevac assurances” before they will agree to send their own medical teams to join U.S. and U.N. aid workers on the ground, the State Department argues in the undated four-page memo, which was reviewed by The Washington Times.
“The United States needs to show leadership and act as we are asking others to act by admitting certain non-citizens into the country for medical treatment for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) during the Ebola crisis,” says the four-page memo, which lists as its author Robert Sorenson, deputy director of the office of international health and biodefense.
More than 10,000 people have become infected with Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and the U.S. has taken a lead role in arguing that the outbreak must be stopped in West Africa. President Obama has committed thousands of U.S. troops and has deployed American medical personnel, but other countries have been slow to follow.
In the memo, officials say their preference is for patients go to Europe, but there are some cases in which the U.S. is “the logical treatment destination for non-citizens.”
The document has been shared with Congress, where lawmakers already are nervous about the administration’s handling of the Ebola outbreak. The memo even details the expected price per patient, with transportation costs at $200,000 and treatment at $300,000 per case.
A State Department official signaled Tuesday evening that the discussions had been shelved.
“There is no policy of the U.S. government to allow entry of non-U.S. citizen Ebola-infected to the United States. There is no consideration in the State Department of changing that policy,” the official said.
Another department official said they are, though, considering using American aircraft equipped to handle Ebola cases to transport non-citizens to other countries.
“We have discussed allowing other countries to use our medevac capabilities to evacuate their own citizens to their home countries or third-countries, subject to reimbursement and availability,” the second department official said.
The internal State Department memo is described as “sensitive but unclassified.” A tracking sheet attached to it says it was cleared by offices of the deputy secretary, the deputy secretary for management, the office of Central African affairs and the medical services office.
A call to the number listed for Mr. Sorenson wasn’t returned Tuesday.
Mr. Obama has been clear about his desire to recruit medical and aid workers to fight Ebola in Africa.
“We know that the best way to protect Americans ultimately is going to stop this outbreak at the source,” the president said at the White House on Tuesday, praising U.S. aid workers who are already involved in the effort. “No other nation is doing as much to make sure that we contain and ultimately eliminate this outbreak than America.”
About half of the more than 10,000 cases in West Africa have been fatal.
Four cases have been diagnosed in the U.S., and three of those were health care workers treating infected patients. Two of those, both nurses at a Dallas hospital, have been cured.
Several American aid workers who contracted the disease overseas were flown to the U.S. for treatment.
The United Nations and World Health Organization are also heavily involved in deploying to the affected region, but other countries have been slower to provide resources to fight Ebola in West Africa or to agree to treat workers who contract the disease.
The State Department memo says only Germany has agreed to take non-German citizens who contract Ebola.
European nations are closer to West Africa, making transport easier, the State Department memo said.
Officials said the U.S. is the right place to treat some cases, notably those in which non-Americans are contracted to work in West Africa for U.S.-based charities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“So far all of the Ebola medevacs brought back to U.S. hospitals have been U.S. citizens. But there are many non-citizens working for U.S. government agencies and organizations in the Ebola-affected countries of West Africa,” the memo says. “Many of them are citizens of countries lacking adequate medical care, and if they contracted Ebola in the course of their work they would need to be evacuated to medical facilities in the United States or Europe.”
The memo says the State Department has a contract with Phoenix Aviation, which maintains an airplane capable of transporting an Ebola patient. The U.S. can transport noncitizens and have other countries or organizations pay the cost.
The U.S. has helped transport three health care workers to Germany and one to France.
In the U.S., the department memo lists three hospitals — the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Emory University Hospital in Atlanta — that are willing to take Ebola patients.
According to the memo, Homeland Security Department officials would be required to waive legal restrictions to speed the transport of patients into the U.S.
“A pre-established framework would be essential to guarantee that only authorized individuals would be considered for travel authorization and that all necessary vetting would occur,” the memo says.
A Homeland Security spokeswoman didn’t return emails seeking comment.
Judicial Watch, a conservative-leaning public interest watchdog, revealed the existence of a State Department plan this month. When The Times described the document to Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s president, he said it is evidence of why the administration balked at adopting a travel ban on those from affected countries.
“Under this theory, there could be people moving here now, transporting people here now, and it could be done with no warning,” Mr. Fitton said. “If our borders mean anything, it is the ability to make sure that dire threats to the public health are kept out.”
After those initial reports surfaced, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, sent a letter asking for answers. On Tuesday, he said the document The Times obtained “raises more concerns and questions than answers.”
“President Obama should be forthcoming with the American people about the scope of his plan to bring non-U.S. citizens infected with Ebola to the United States for treatment,” Mr. Goodlatte said in a statement.
After all, America offers free healthcare with few strings attached to anyone on earth who gets [...]]]>
Breitbart has reported that Thomas Duncan (pictured), the Liberian ebola guy, came here knowingly in order to get top-notch healthcare in the US, apparently unbothered by potentially infecting many innocents along the way. Today’s Typhoid Mary is Ebola Tom.
After all, America offers free healthcare with few strings attached to anyone on earth who gets here with a compelling sob story. And Obamacare has been quietly expanded to include illegals, so they don’t even need a sob story in the newspaper to get their freebies.
There are numerous examples. One hint of the extent of medical mooching was a 2006 Denver Post article which observed, “Hundreds of Mexican illegal immigrants are in Colorado not just for work but also for free medical care they say they can`t get back home.” (Ill Mexican nationals go home, Denver Post, Nov 20, 2006)
This government-forced do-goodery is very expensive for taxpayers. Mexican Gabriela Perez was brought illegally to America by her parents to get treatment for her spina bifida. Medical care for that defect runs from $532,000 to above $1 million.
Illegal aliens also demand organ transplants, which are among the most expensive procedures, and 18 persons die daily waiting for the organ that never comes. One lucky recipient of organ transplants has to be Mexican Ana Puente who has received at least three liver transplants after her aunt brought her to the US illegally as an infant with a liver disorder. California taxpayers were dinged for around $490,000 for the operation and first-year follow-up, plus $30,000 annually for anti-rejection drugs.
It is ironic that thousands of Americans travel to Mexico to get affordable healthcare. Apparently the Mexes have first-world healthcare for those who have the money.
A danger in the present case is that Africans who fear they are infected will flee the ebola zone to this country to get American medical care that may save their lives. Not every African has the money to buy a one-way plane ticket to the US, but those who do would be encouraged by the fact that Obama scrapped medical quarantine regulations in 2010. As usual, the safety of American citizens is not a priority for this administration.
]]>Boss, Coworkers of US Ebola Patient: He Knew He Had Ebola, US Trip Was ‘Desperate Attempt to Survive’, Breitbart.com, October 3, 2014
A Liberian man who traveled to the United States four days before having contact with a symptomatic Ebola victim in Monrovia “knew he had Ebola,” according to his former boss as a FedEx contractor who said he abruptly left his job before the incident.
In interviews with the Liberian Observer, one of the nation’s largest newspapers, both Thomas Eric Duncan’s former boss, Henry Brunson, and an unnamed coworker agree that they believe Duncan knew he had Ebola when he boarded a plane out of Monrovia with a final destination in Texas. Brunson noted that, having come into contact with a pregnant woman who died hours after her interaction with Duncan, he knew of his disease. “If he were in Liberia, he was going to surely die,” Brunson told the paper, saying he was “glad” that Duncan was in a country with adequate medical resources.
Duncan worked as a driver for Brunson at the FedEx contractor SafeWay Cargo until mid-September. According to the Observer, Duncan was involved in a car accident at the end of the tenure at the company, and, according to workers, “having acquired an American visa, he did not care and never returned to work afterwards.”
Another unnamed source, described as a FedEx worker in Monrovia, told the Observer that Duncan knew he had Ebola, as well. “A source at FedEx in Monrovia said Mr. Duncan apparently knew he was suffering from the disease and that his best chance of survival was reaching to the United States,” writes author Omari Jackson, “a position that a family source denied, when we sought confirmation.” The Observer notes that the departure to America, for the source and others consulted, appeared a “desperate attempt to survive.”
In previous interviews with sources in Monrovia who know Duncan, the Observer found a witness who claimed Duncan had decided to “just go” to America after receiving a visa to visit family in the United States. The decision to leave his job and abruptly go to America raises questions about whether Duncan intended to honor the provisions of his visa and leave the United States in the alloted time.
Duncan’s direct knowledge of whether he had the disease is pivotal to understanding how rigorous screening measures at airports in Monrovia are, as well as whether any guilt can be ascribed to Duncan for knowingly violating any procedures in said screening. The Liberian government has announced its intention to prosecute Duncan for having left the country, stating that it has documentation in which Duncan claimed to have never come in contact with anyone carrying the Ebola virus and that such a lie is a criminal infraction.
Both American and Liberian officials agree that he did not exhibit any outward signs of having contracted Ebola during his airport screening, though debate remains surrounding whether his symptoms upon arriving in a Texas hospital were sufficiently clear that the hospital should have immediately quarantined him, rather than their initial decision to send him home with antibiotics.
UPDATE: FedEx has released the following statement clarifying Duncan’s position at SafeWay:
We have been advised by Safeway Cargo, a FedEx Global Service Provider (GSP) in Liberia, that Mr. Duncan was not employed in the FedEx GSP operation. He was employed as a personal driver for the company’s General Manager.