The Texas Ebola victim’s family is quarantined under armed guard tonight. This was after family members would not comply with a request to not leave their apartment.
Four members of a family the U.S. Ebola patient was staying with were confined to their Texas home under armed guard Thursday as the circle of people possibly exposed to the virus widened, while Liberian authorities said they would prosecute the man for allegedly lying on an airport questionnaire.
The unusual confinement order was imposed after the family failed to comply with a request not to leave their apartment, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
Texas State Health Commissioner David Lakey said the order would help ensure the four can be closely watched, including checking them for fevers over the next three weeks.
“We didn’t have the confidence we would have been able to monitor them the way that we needed to,” he said.
The family will not be allowed to receive visitors, officials said.
Authorities were also concerned about the cleanliness of the home and hired a cleaning service, Lakey said.
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #1The Texas Ebola victim’s family is quarantined under armed guard tonight. This was after family members would not comply with a request to not leave their apartment.
Authorities were also concerned about the cleanliness of the home and hired a cleaning service, Lakey said.
Crazy! I can imagine they were drawing straws to see who'd go to that job.
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman
"Crazy! I can imagine they were drawing straws to see who'd go to that job."
Now why would you say that?
"In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirmed Thursday that a week after a Liberian man fell ill with Ebola in Dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection Wednesday night.
The officials said it had been difficult to find a contractor willing to enter the apartment to clean it and remove bedding and clothes, which they said had been bagged in plastic. They said they now had hired a firm that would do the work soon. The Texas health commissioner, Dr. David Lakey, told reporters during an afternoon news conference that officials had encountered “a little bit of hesitancy” in seeking a firm to clean the apartment."
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #5"Crazy! I can imagine they were drawing straws to see who'd go to that job."
Now why would you say that?
"In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirmed Thursday that a week after a Liberian man fell ill with Ebola in Dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection Wednesday night.
The officials said it had been difficult to find a contractor willing to enter the apartment to clean it and remove bedding and clothes, which they said had been bagged in plastic. They said they now had hired a firm that would do the work soon. The Texas health commissioner, Dr. David Lakey, told reporters during an afternoon news conference that officials had encountered “a little bit of hesitancy” in seeking a firm to clean the apartment."
Reading the above explanation of their handling of the contaminated site does not make me feel at ease AT ALL!!! We're screwed!!!
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #5"Crazy! I can imagine they were drawing straws to see who'd go to that job."
Now why would you say that?
"In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirmed Thursday that a week after a Liberian man fell ill with Ebola in Dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection Wednesday night.
The officials said it had been difficult to find a contractor willing to enter the apartment to clean it and remove bedding and clothes, which they said had been bagged in plastic. They said they now had hired a firm that would do the work soon. The Texas health commissioner, Dr. David Lakey, told reporters during an afternoon news conference that officials had encountered “a little bit of hesitancy” in seeking a firm to clean the apartment."
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2Oh my, indeed. What happens if one or more of the family decides to go out? He shoots them? He restrains them physically somehow? Would you?
This whole thing is getting crazier and is just one more example of the insanity that is Liberal/Secular America today.
For good reason - once upon a time any highly infectious and lethal disease disease would be handled that way if one refused to keep quarantine.