About EBOLA By Ruthie DiTucci It is time we stop blaming the airports, the nurses or the hospital protocols. It is time we get serious about this deadly disease that has no cure. This is a matter of life or death; being politically incorrect should be given no consideration in this critical case. The Obama administration has announced new protocols for travelers from West Africa flying into: JFK in New York, Washington Dulles, Chicago, Atlanta and Newark. The Obama administration will be out of office by the time the country is ravaged by Ebola and the Obama Family only travel on Airforce One not commercial carriers. It is foolish to think that taking someone’s temperature and simply asking them ‘where they have been’ and ‘where they are going’ is going to deliver truthful answers. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control are being pressured by business interests losing millions in travel and tourism revenue. That is the sad, cold truth. And presently, neither the WHO or the CDC know how to contain this deadly disease. There are only two things we know for certain: 1. Ebola is deadly. 2. Ebola has no cure. Most importantly, unless you incarcerate Ebola patients, there is no legal way to force them into quarantine. The CDC has the authority to issue a mandatory quarantine for international travelers who might be carrying an infectious disease like Ebola, but rules can be easily challenged on constitutional grounds given concerns about whether quarantined persons receive due process and their ‘civil rights’ are being respected. That proves that quarantine is NOT MANDATORY. If an Ebola patient chooses not to be quarantined, you cannot force them into quarantine. It is impossible to expect an airport security guard to determine whether or not a passenger has Ebola by taking temperatures. Airport Security personnel or even TSA Inspectors are not doctors thus not qualified to make such serious decisions. Most TSA employees generally have high school or GED educations. To ask a person who is little more than a security guard to make a decision affecting public health and have what is essentially a security guard choosing between a passenger’s civil liberties or the good of ‘public health’ is to rely on areas of law that haven’t been tested in the better part of a century. We are throwing too huge a responsibility in the hands of people not academically, legally or medically prepared to carry it out. Do not wait until a month from now when too many Ebola patients have filtered in through the airports to do exactly what I am recommending be done now.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:01:17 +0000
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