Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

This is a 2fer, send her back before anchor baby comes out

She's a local resident.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Keeping exposed people off of flights is not the same as having no flights

How do you do that? Ask where they have been and hope they are truthful?

If passports are not being stamped by all nations people pass through, they should be.

Anonymous wrote:Keeping exposed people off of flights is not the same as having no flights

How do you do that? Ask where they have been and hope they are truthful?

The latest tweet from @fairfaxhealth: we're punting the decision to test pentagon bus lady to the cdc. Ha!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

This is a 2fer, send her back before anchor baby comes out

Lol! +1

Ha!

Anchor baby - the next rampant disease soon to hit pediatric wards.

Anonymous wrote:
The problem is that the "few isolated cases" here are very costly as well, which is also a diversion of resources. And that's assuming that they stay few and isolated.
Second -- if you think that spending resources on dealing with problems here that are less severe than in other parts of the world is unethical, then basically every spending decision we make is unethical. We should just give our entire GDP as foreign aid, by that logic. Yes, we prioritize ourselves. Yes, I will feed my kids before other kids. That may be unethical, or it may just be the nature of humans.

Yes - I actually think about this a lot. That every non-essential dollar I spend or we spend is shameful when we think about the desperation of other humans all around the world. Why should I be buying my kids more plastic crap toys that they will quickly lose interest in when there are starving children in (fill in the blank). Think about the amount of money we spend on say, the White House Christmas Tree lighting, or Fourth of July fireworks, or our own personal vacations....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

This is a 2fer, send her back before anchor baby comes out

Lol! +1

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is that the kind of solutions being discussed here are not as simple as people would like to believe. They have real ramifications in terms of time, energy and monetary resources that could be devoted to addressing the situation at it's root--in West Africa. We're talking about diverting resources away from a place where hundreds are dying every week to (theoretically) prevent the the possibility of a few isolated cases here in the US and to partially alleviate the worry/inconvenience that goes along with that possibility.

Seems borderline unethical to me.

Aren't we now diverting resources into medical care for affected nurses, quarantines, contact tracing, decontamination, etc. etc.?
Won't we have less resources to expend on Africa if we have to fight ebola here?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

This is a 2fer, send her back before anchor baby comes out

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

Source?

As reliable as all the other "sources" quoted here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

Source?

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is that the kind of solutions being discussed here are not as simple as people would like to believe. They have real ramifications in terms of time, energy and monetary resources that could be devoted to addressing the situation at it's root--in West Africa. We're talking about diverting resources away from a place where hundreds are dying every week to (theoretically) prevent the the possibility of a few isolated cases here in the US and to partially alleviate the worry/inconvenience that goes along with that possibility.

Seems borderline unethical to me.

The problem is that the "few isolated cases" here are very costly as well, which is also a diversion of resources. And that's assuming that they stay few and isolated.
Second -- if you think that spending resources on dealing with problems here that are less severe than in other parts of the world is unethical, then basically every spending decision we make is unethical. We should just give our entire GDP as foreign aid, by that logic. Yes, we prioritize ourselves. Yes, I will feed my kids before other kids. That may be unethical, or it may just be the nature of humans.
I totally agree we need to address it in W.A. We should have long ago. But we didn't. Now it's here, and we should be both addressing it there and preventing further importation of it. The arguments as to why we can't do that seem very unconvincing to me. Because we'd damage the airline industry? Sorry, but I already know people who've changed their travel plans to avoid flying right now. That's damaging the airline industry. Because we can't manage to charter flights for aid purposes? Why not? Because we can't set up quarantine centers near airports? Sure we can.
All of it costs money. We should stop saying "we can't" and start being honest and saying "we don't want to spend the money".

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/breaking-news-ebola-scare-closses-pentagon-entrance-restricts-parking-108188.html

Woman is at Inova VA Hospital Center now. The parking at Pentagon has been closed off (see above).

Looks like the 'hysterical' ones with the medical backgrounds have been right about the situation/threat all along.

She's pregnant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw West Africa. Sorry. Obama's allegiance is to us (of should be). No more entry when West Africa is on the passport pages recently. And no more entry for passport holders who are West African. End of story.

Controlling the epidemic in West Africa is far and away the best approach to controlling it here. It not just about ethics, it's also about practicality and the best use of limited resources.

Agreed. If we don't get it under control there, we are going to have Ebola cases popping up all over the world for the foreseeable future.

Anonymous wrote:Screw West Africa. Sorry. Obama's allegiance is to us (of should be). No more entry when West Africa is on the passport pages recently. And no more entry for passport holders who are West African. End of story.

Mindless reactionary.