LV702

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/18/health...html?hpt=hp_c2


Don't you just feel safe with your patdowns now?

FliesWay2Much

And, of course, the the clerk immediately disposed of the gloves which were handled as HAZMAT and didn't use them on the next victim. All of the clerks who handled his boarding pass and ID as well as all the passengers behind him in the ID line are also under quarantine. And, the TSA isolated the box of swabs and isolated the ETD machine and table. All of the TSA clerks and airline employees who handled his checked luggage are also being monitored How about the CBP guy who handled his passport and all those behind him in line? What about all the people in line behind him and the people with whom they have been in contact since the flight landed?

Just the latest act of Security Theater...

txrus

And, did anyone in 'leadership' confirm this screener actually had contact w/the nurse vs. just wanting a paid vacation by crying wolf?

DIFIN

does any one remember me calling the TSA "EBOLA SPREADERS" a few weeks ago and the flack I got for saying that.

Our leadership still has their heads where the sun doesn't shine

Indelaware

Yes, absolutely. I can't imagine that the risk of contracting Ebola from a TSA screener is as great as the risk of cancer from a TSA screening machine.

Good grief. What hysteria.

rayikes

HAHA nice ^.

LV702

Through an abundance of caution, they should get rid of the machines and go back to WTMD only.

Can't be too safe!

weero

Typical Western lack of proportions ... the only thing worth reading in this article is that Belize obviously acts consistently with the perceived level of threat.

largeeyes

Are you serious? By not letting a cruise ship dock because someone on board had worked with a sample 3 weeks earlier. That's lunacy.

jkhuggins

Neither of these statements contradict each other. The perceived threat level of Ebola far exceeds the actual threat level presented by Ebola by several orders of magnitude. People are reacting to the perceived threat level when they should be reacting to the actual threat level.

Aloha1

No, that's common sense. Belize took the issue head on and put guidelines in place immediately. Contrast that with our "leadership" in the White House who decides to put a partisan political hack in charge to spin the issue and deflect any blame away from POTUS. Pretty sad.

largeeyes

Wrong on so many levels, but not going to start an argument over it. Root of the problem is that Americans and most people in general are not very bright. It's absurd they even created another Czar and the Republicans calling for a travel ban are just playing politics with something that should not ever involve politics.

You want to go where?

What common sense? They put in guidelines that hurt their economy when the risk was zero. Common sense isn't just reacting, it is reacting appropriately.

catocony

I wasn't aware that President Obama was in charge of the hospital in Dallas that screwed on the pooch on caring for the first patient.

The hysteria is silly, but somewhat understandable. Ebola has long been described as one of the worst ways to die, and this is the first large outbreak with global implications.

However, turning it into a political fundraiser and as a chance to bash Democrats is seditious fear mongering. It's on par with politicizing 9/11.

You want to go where?

Everyone seems to worried about catching Ebola. They come up with ever more fanciful ways for it to be transmitted, despite the fact that the data suggests that the contact has to be either very significant or very late in the disease's progress for someone to be infected.

Well, maybe anecdotal evidence will help, since data doesn't seem to have an effect. Thomas Eric Duncan, the index case, who flew from Liberia to the United States did not infect anyone before he went into the hospital. No one.

1. He infected no one on the planes he flew.

2. He infected no one in the apartment complex where he lived.

3. He didn't even infect his fiancee or his nephews.

The woman who went on the cruise (admittedly she had no contact with Duncan at all and was a very unlikely candidate for infection in the first place) - no Ebola.

African countries freed of Ebola; monitoring period over for 48 Texans

I'm not saying Ebola isn't a dangerous disease. It is very dangerous, although less so in places where you can get high quality medical treatment. I'm not saying Ebola isn't infectious. It is, but really mostly at the latest stages of infection.

In developed countries, the people with significant risk are health care workers, because they are treating patients when they are most infectious. The more we can do to protect those people, the better. That is where we need to put our resources and where we should concentrate our concern.

While I am unconvinced of the value that the TSA provides, the one thing I am not worried about when it comes to the TSA, it is catching Ebola.