Official Ebola update thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The woman that was on the pentagon bus does not have ebola.

Source?

The first link in this thread:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/418725.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Um, how about dedicating a few for this purpose?

BINGO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The woman that was on the pentagon bus does not have ebola.

I am not seeing where they reached that conclusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The woman that was on the pentagon bus does not have ebola.

Source?

The first link in this thread:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/418725.page

Nope. Loudoun prisoner lady doesn't have Ebola. No word yet on pentagon bus lady.

[Anonymous]

CDC: You Can Give—But Can’t Get—Ebola on a Bus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The woman that was on the pentagon bus does not have ebola.

Source?

The first link in this thread:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/418725.page

That link does not say that bus lady does not hav ebola.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Um, how about dedicating a few for this purpose?

Why can't the military fly those supplies in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Um, how about dedicating a few for this purpose?

Why can't the military fly those supplies in?

+ 1000

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:A bus is being held by police near Capital Hill after a West African passenger vomited:

https://twitter.com/BruceLeshan/status/523148716593934337

It's going to be a tough few weeks for West Africans.

As it should be. Had people been more paranoid about Duncan, we might not be in the situation that we are in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Can you please explain what you learned from your research? I don't understand why we can't have the military fly in these supplies, or have the govt pay for the commercial flights to do this but NOT take tourists and business people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Um, how about dedicating a few for this purpose?

Why can't the military fly those supplies in?

+ 1000

My guess is because it takes a ton of time and red tape to mount that kind of response and meanwhile things are getting worse and worse there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Can you please explain what you learned from your research? I don't understand why we can't have the military fly in these supplies, or have the govt pay for the commercial flights to do this but NOT take tourists and business people.

Read this article, for example: http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-ebola-air-travel-20141016-story.html#page=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Um, how about dedicating a few for this purpose?

Why can't the military fly those supplies in?

+ 1000

+ another 1000. Commercial airplanes are never the only way to fly. They might be the most economical way to do it but I don't think we should be most worried about finances right now. I'd hate to see organizations like MSF and Samaritan's Purse take a hit right now because of having to use private aircraft, but it's been than the death toll exploding because people are vomiting all over commercial airplanes.

Hell, the military can drop supplies from altitude.

[Anonymous]

Its here in Arlington now...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-17/officials-responding-possible-ebola-situation-near-pentagon

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here.

Can you please explain what you learned from your research? I don't understand why we can't have the military fly in these supplies, or have the govt pay for the commercial flights to do this but NOT take tourists and business people.

I'm not the poster you are asking but I've done some work in West Africa and have some experience with what sort of goods are on commercial planes (I once returned with 40 kilos of cashews). Large companies can afford charter planes or shipping containers, but small businesses often rely on using commercial airliners for transport. Without passengers, the commercial flight wouldn't be going. If the US military began running such flights, it would be entering the commercial shipping market or, potentially, providing free air freight for those businesses. The same is true if the US government paid for the commercial flights. That's just one aspect and there are many more ramifications of flight restrictions.