EBOLA IN DALLAS PART DEUX

YOU  thought is was “stopped dead” didn’t you? At least that’s what you were promised. After all, this isn’t a third world Health Care system. This is the most powerful nation in the World and we can do anything, including stopping Nature DEAD in its tracks. We’re so good at controlling Nature, that we can leave flight into this country from countries that are being overwhelmed by a killer virus because we take the passengers temperature at the country of origination and make them fill out a questionaire. 

That makes me feel safe. I know if I were stuck in one of those collapsing countries I wouldn’t lie on my questionaire to get out of there. Of course modern medicine has a second firewall up now in the U.S….. We take a second temperature. Maybe some people don’t know this, but temperatures fluctuate/undulate….meaning they go up and DOWN….especially if they take motrin/tylenol. So…you may not detect a temperature. Answer to this problem….isolate anyone coming in from these countries for 21 days OR stop the flights.

Now just one problem with that, even if they did it. You have a porous border that is being flooded with refugees already from Ebola and its going to get worse to our south. What happens if it takes hold in Central and South America? Do you think we’ll stop it? I think you can write Texas off. 

Beating a dead horse again but it bears repeating. Pay close attention to the next 14 days. If we get several patients turning positive then Dallas will be the perfect urban beta test. If you are informed and reading this, then watch the response. If its muted without panic and breakdown of the JIT system, then we may have a few months of breathing room with this nasty bug. If it goes full bore panic in Dallas, it may herald a further breakdown coming more quickly than we are ready for.

Watch the medical system reaction too in Dallas for a clue if several cases arise in the next few weeks. It is ill prepared for this bug and frankly could not handle a pandemic of it, even a small pandemic without collapsing. If we buy the few months, then I believe we will have a vaccine available by early next year. Whether its effective enough if a viral shift occurs remains to be seen. gl