In late July and early August, six weeks ago, I warned that we at the point of losing any hope of containing the Ebola virus and I was called a ‘fear-monger and I was spreading ‘fear-porn’. Many of my colleagues (e.g. Sheila Zilinski) were accused of the same. However, the worm has turned and the truthful media has a new partner in fear-mongering and it is the CDC.
The U. S. Lost the War Against Ebola in July of 2014 On July 30, 2014, I reported that ‘Patient Zero, Patrick Sawyer, had a layover in Ghana then changed planes in Togo and flew to an international travel hub of Lagos, located in Nigeria. Nigeria is also the site of an Ebola outbreak. ‘The dad-of-three died five days after arriving in the city’. His sister, with whom Sawyer had contact, died of Ebola. He should never have been allowed to board any plane.
In the same article I noted that ‘ a desperate search is on to find the hundreds of passengers who flew on the same jets as Sawyer. A total of 59 passengers and crew are estimated to have come into contact with Sawyer and effort is being made to track each individual down. There is an inherent problem with this ‘track down’. Sawyer was traveling two ‘commuter airports’, in which the exposed population was connecting to other flights; at this point, the spread of the virus would quickly expand beyond any possibility of containment because in less than a half a day, nearly a half a million people would be potentially exposed. Within a matter of a couple of hours, Sawyer’s infected fellow travelers would each have made contact with 200 other passengers and crew. Hours later, these flights would land and these people would have gone home to the friends, families and coworkers across several continents’. This was when the world, and in particular, President Obama had a fighting chance to contain Ebola and all parties failed miserably!
This post was published at The Common Sense Show on September 16, 2014.
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