EBOLA AND GUBMINT BUREAUCRATS: No tickee no washee

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/us/containing-ebola-cdc-troops-west-africa.html?_r=0

Permits.

 

[about_average]

Fucking government assholes! Requiring companies to have permits to transport hazardous materials.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I used to have to do Hazmat.

Pain in the ass. Guy shows up, loads materials in under 15 minutes and then you spend the next half an hour to 45 minutes filling out and signing official forms. All, of course under the penalty of fines and imprisonment.

 

[eyer]

As news breaks that the Dallas ebola patient's condition has turned worse from serious but stable to critical but stable (evidently, the word "stable" doesn't quite mean what it used to anymore)...

...here are two seemingly conflicting accounts of each other:


Friday, October 3, 2014 Obama Scrapped CDC Rule Giving Feds Power to Block Ill Travelers

Four years ago, quietly and without public notice, the Obama administration scrapped quarantine plans from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) which could have blocked travelers with the deadly Ebola virus from entering the U.S.

The Daily Caller reports that the rules, which would have given the federal government quarantine power over sick airline passengers, likely would have stopped Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian resident and the first case of Ebola reported in the U.S., from ever setting foot in the country and bringing Ebola with him.

Duncan may have infected up to 100 people before being confined to an isolation ward in a Texas hospital.

The rules, first proposed by the CDC under the Bush administration in 2005, would have allowed the federal government to quarantine airline passengers showing symptoms for up to three days, as well as people exposed to those symptoms, and required airlines to inform the CDC about sick passengers and keep contact information on all passengers to enable the CDC to track down those possibly exposed.

Saturday, October 4, 2014 U.S. disease control agents escort man off flight in Newark: report

(Reuters) - U.S. disease-control agents in biohazard suits removed a sick passenger and his daughter from a United Airlines jet that landed on Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, but local media said the man was not believed by federal health officials to have Ebola.

The passenger, who was vomiting during the flight from Brussels to Newark Liberty International Airport, was escorted off the plane by officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and taken to University Hospital in Newark, accompanied by his daughter, according to a spokeswoman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.

CDC officials were testing the man but do not believe he was sick with the deadly Ebola virus, airport officials told the New Jersey newspaper the Record.

The CDC, which has reported fielding more than 100 inquiries about possible Ebola cases that have turned out to be false alarms, could not be reached by phone or email for comment.

The plane's 251 other passengers and 14 crew members were held in temporary quarantine while health officials evaluated the situation, Erica Dumas, the Port Authority spokeswoman, said. She added that all were ultimately cleared and permitted to leave the plane.