That is the power of fear:
"Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, has spoken in increasingly dire terms about the Ebola outbreak and the need to stop it. She told an emergency session of the UN’s Security Council last month that the outbreak was “likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.”
It's the end of the world and we know it, so I feel fine.
Hagel OK’s 21-day quarantine for troops back from Africa
Nurse says she may sue Maine over quarantine
Who is Kaci Hickox?
Anti-quarantine nurse Hickox was trained as intelligence officer by the CDC
It's all a propaganda psy-op, folks. That's why the ma$$ media is covering her.
Speaking of intelligence agencies:
"While about 3,700 volunteers have signed up to assist through the US Agency for International Development, many will not have the required skills."
For those who do not know AID = CIA!
"State’s Ebola response is unclear, critics say" by Kay Lazar | Globe Staff October 30, 2014
The state’s health department is being criticized by some specialists and by the Republican candidate for governor for not forcefully and clearly communicating how it would deal with Ebola if someone arrived in Massachusetts infected with the disease.
Some of the criticism comes directly from members of the board charged with helping the agency shape public health policy.
A month after a patient in Dallas tested positive for the deadly virus, igniting concerns about potential infections in other states, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has yet to brief its Public Health Council on the agency’s plans for containing an outbreak. In a statement Wednesday night, the health department defended its response to Ebola, arguing it has communicated its strategy on many fronts.
The concerns about insufficient communication were brought into focus Tuesday during a televised debate between Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Martha Coakley as the contenders for governor discussed how they would handle the politically sensitive issue of quarantines for people returning from Ebola-wracked West Africa.
“My big problem with this, to tell you the truth, is no one in Massachusetts has really put out there what the Commonwealth has actually been doing up until this point,” Baker said.
I don't know if he can tell the truth because the fisherman doesn't seem to exist (I'm sure they will create, 'er, find him, though).
He went on to question the state’s apparent lack of a plan to designate a hospital to be the state’s primary Ebola treatment hub. The Globe reported Wednesday that Boston’s big teaching hospitals are rejecting calls that one of them be designated as a hub of Ebola care.
Coakley did not specifically address the state’s Ebola plan but said, “We need to continue to watch and be ready.”
No one with Ebola has been identified in Massachusetts, and the likelihood of an infection here is considered remote, although possible.
But some public health specialists say the state health department has done a lackluster job on a core mission of public health — reaching out to inform and calm residents about a disease that has left the public confused and fearful.
Health leaders should be making clear to the public that they are ready to handle a crisis, whether it be Ebola or a new virulent strain of flu, so that residents will know the agency can be trusted, David Ropeik, a Harvard University instructor and consultant in risk communication and risk management, said.
“It establishes the foundation for that trust when the crisis happens,” he said....
That has been completely lost by this government.
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NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Ebola quarantine rules should reflect science, not hysteria
The specter of Ebola arrives on the doorstep of rural Maine
Federal actions reflect limited role in quarantine
New York offers protections for Ebola medical workers
North Korea to quarantine visitors in light of Ebola
Liberia makes inroads on Ebola, but outlook grim in Sierra Leone
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helps launch Cambridge vaccine company
Looks like the evil is starting to show.
