Just when you thought you were safe from Ebola

Some idiot doctor who should know better might have spread it all through New York City. Yesterday, news came out that a doctor who had been in Africa treating Ebola patients might have caught the virus. It was confirmed last night that he is infected.

The doctor, Craig Spencer, was working with Doctors without Borders in Guinea, Africa, caring for infected people. He came back to the United States about a week ago, passed through the “Enhanced Screening Process” and then proceeded to ride around the subway for a few days. Here are some of the details from the New York Times:

A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea became the first person in the city to test positive for the virus Thursday, setting off a search for anyone who might have come into contact with him. The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital Center and placed in isolation at the same time as investigators sought to retrace every step he had taken over the past several days. At least three people he had contact with in recent days have been placed in isolation.

Oh, this isn’t good, not good at all. Just how not good was it? Right before Dr. Spencer developed a fever, he was out and about riding around the subway.

Dr. Spencer, 33, had traveled on the A and L subway lines Wednesday night, visited a bowling alley in Williamsburg, and then took a taxi back to Manhattan. The next morning, he reported having a fever, raising questions about his health while he was out in public. The authorities have interviewed Dr. Spencer several times and are also looking at information from his credit cards and MetroCard to determine his movements.

As we know from the mess in Dallas, especially with the CDC telling nurse Amber Vinson that it was perfectly fine for her to fly to and from Ohio. She later developed Ebola and is now undergoing treatment. Hopefully she will fully recover. Nurse Vinson, like her coworker, Nurse Pham followed all the procedures laid down by the Centers for Disease Control, and in Nurse Vinson’s case, called them repeatedly when she started feeling ill. If there are any secondary infections, no blame can be assigned to nurse Vinson.

However, Doctor Spencer just returned from a hot zone in Africa, working closely to save Ebola patients. A very noble thing to do, but to be honest, he should not have been allowed to return right away. With the numbers of healthcare workers in Africa getting sick, he should have been put into some sort of pre-travel quarantine before being allowed back into the United States. Instead, he came home and went bowling. Now the “Don’t worry, be happy!” garbage from the CDC and the political idiots has started.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking at a news conference at Bellevue on Thursday night, sought to reassure New Yorkers that there was no reason to be alarmed.

“Being on the same subway car or living near a person with Ebola does not in itself put someone at risk,” he said.

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That may be true, as far as it goes. As it is currently understood, Ebola is transferred via bodily fluids, such as blood, vomit and feces. (Sorry for the graphic image people), I don’t know, and frankly no one really knows one way or the other, if it can be passed via sweat or a sneeze or something. I’ve heard reports that the Ebola virus could live for several hours on a surface under certain circumstances. There is also another way I think Ebola might be passed on.

Dr. Spencer’s fiancée has also been quarantined at Bellevue.

I don’t have to spell out what happens when your betrothed returns home after an extended trip. I think the phrase “Rocked the building off the foundations” pretty much covers it. Sadly, I suspect her contracting Ebola is close to 100%. Hopefully they can pump her full of some drugs that will allow her immune system to fight it off.

Two other friends, who had contact with him on Tuesday and Wednesday, have been told by the authorities that they too will be quarantined but whether they will isolate themselves in their homes or be relocated was still under discussion, according to a person briefed on the investigation.

I suspect the two friends might be ok, at least I hope they will be. Then there are the people the good doctor may have bumped into in his travels.

The driver of the taxi, arranged through the online service Uber, did not have direct contact with Dr. Spencer and was not considered to be at risk, officials said.

Probably not, but I think his car should be burned, and anyone else who was picked up in that car should be checked out. Oh, I think, once it gets out that he used the Uber service, they are going to find a sudden drop in people using them, much like what happened with Frontier Airlines. At least Frontier was proactive once they knew what was happening and pulled that plane out of service.

Speaking at the news conference, city officials said that while they were still investigating, they did not believe Dr. Spencer was symptomatic while he traveled around the city on Wednesday and therefore had not posed a risk to the public.

“He did not have a stage of disease that creates a risk of contagiousness on the subway,” Dr. Mary Bassett, the city health commissioner, said. “We consider it extremely unlikely, the probability being close to nil, that there will be any problem related to his taking the subway system.”

Yep, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it until someone else gets sick who has no other connection to Dr. Spencer other then traveling on the same subway car. And as for that bowling alley?

Still, out of an abundance of caution, officials said, the bowling alley in Williamsburg that he visited, the Gutter, was closed on Thursday night, and a scheduled concert there, part of the CMJ music festival, was canceled. Health workers were scheduled to visit the alley on Friday.

I expect a sudden drop off in business to that bowling alley for a while. Meanwhile there is some good Ebola news to report today. The first victim, Nurse Nina Pham, has been released from the hospital. IN another story from the New York Times:

Jubilantly declaring that “hope just went up a notch today,” Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said Friday that the first person infected with Ebola in the United States was now virus free. Nina Pham, a 26-year-old nurse who was infected while caring for a Liberian patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, headed from Bethesda to Washington to meet with President Obama at the White House, and then planned to return home to Dallas.

First, congratulations to Ms. Pham. Without a doubt, this has been the most terrifying month of her life. She knows exactly what happens when you contract Ebola, and it is not a pleasant way to go. Second, why am I not surprised that Der Fubar wants to horn in on the wonderful news for Ms. Pham and her family? If that SCoaMF had actually done his job and instituted a travel ban from infected areas, the late Mr. Duncan would never have been allowed into the United States and neither Ms. Pham or Ms. Vinson would have been infected. We also would not be scrambling around now trying to trace anyone who might have bumped into Ms. Vinson or Dr. Spencer. King Putt should simply allow her to go home and play with her dog.

And then, we have the “Tin Foil Hat” coming out in full roar. In a link from Drudge to the World News Daily, (and why he started linking to them is beyond me), we now see the accusations that the Obola Obama administration is “Disappearing” Ebola patients.

A doctor has exclusively revealed to Infowars that health authorities are covering up Ebola cases in the United States and disappearing patients in an effort to avoid hysteria.

James Lawrenzi, DO, who has two clinics in Garden City and Archie, Missouri, appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to warn that the true scale of the situation was being deliberately downplayed. It is important to note that none of these potential Ebola outbreaks occurred at the clinics in which Lawrenzi works.

Oh I don’t doubt that the CDC and Il Douche are downplaying the potential for an Ebola epidemic happening in the United States, but still, this?

The following day, Lawrenzi was told by the doctor that the patient had “disappeared” against medical advice, but that he wouldn’t have been able to leave on his own given his medical condition. The day after the patient disappeared, a meeting was called for anyone who had contact with the patient. Doctors and other medical workers were told that the patient had malaria. Lawrenzi also revealed that drug reps from within the area warned over additional possible Ebola cases in the area.

So, this “Dr. Lawrenzi” doesn’t have actual first hand information. Hmmm.

A second possible Ebola patient was then admitted to Research Medical Center in Kansas City the following day but also quickly “disappeared,” with hospital bosses claiming he had typhoid, according to Lawrenzi.

“These patients are disappearing, they’re doing something with the patients and God knows where they’re going,” said the doctor.

Yeah, right. They are making Ebola patients disappear and denying the truth? Well, I have a possible answer to “Dr. Lawrenzi and Alex Jones.

Coming soon from the SyFy channel.
Ripped from today’s headlines.
An ethically challenged government scientist.
A school of hungry great white sharks.
And
The Ebola Virus!
Combined in a cunning and horrible experiment, a new life form never before seen on the Earth!
Sharkbola!

I think that should fit right in with the usual conspiracy stories that come out of Infowars and World News Daily.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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