EBOLA Fighting Falsehoods: Congolese asylum-seekers in San Antonio do not have Ebola virus

[StarryEyedLad]

The propaganda machine is out in full force. Lies, lies, and more lies. Note the dig at the 'right-wing' website. Maybe they have Ebola, maybe not - but why should our country be put at risk?

Fighting Falsehoods: Congolese asylum-seekers in SA do not have Ebola virus
https://www.ksat.com/news/volunteer...um-seekers-?__vfz=rtw_top_pages=9800900018944

Fighting falsehoods: Congolese asylum-seekers in SA do not have Ebola virus
Volunteers join city in combating falsehoods about Congolese asylum-seekers
By Courtney Friedman - VJ, Reporter
Posted: 11:07 PM, June 11, 2019
Updated: 2:30 PM, June 12, 2019

SAN ANTONIO - Volunteers are now joining the city in debunking false claims that asylum-seekers from Democratic Republic of the Congo in San Antonio have the Ebola virus.

Members of a self-proclaimed far-right wing website that spread the falsehoods even forced their way into a local shelter without permission.

Taylor Rogers and his family have spent days at the city's immigrant resource center, helping central African migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

Going back home is not an option, either because of political or spiritual persecution or because of the famine and the general conditions of war. Sometimes, their home or entire community has been destroyed.

“I talked to one mom who is pregnant and with her 2-year-old walked through the rain forest in Costa Rica for 10 days,” Rogers said.

The Rogers family has passed out water, set up cots and have used their language skills to direct families to the right buses or even just to the shelter’s bathroom.

“The natural reaction is, ‘I don't understand this. I don't even think I can do anything about this,’ and so we just feel afraid. That fear usually results in us having anger towards it and just wanting to cancel it out or retreating and not engaging with it at all. Neither one of these options are OK,” Rogers said.

He has seen that fear in his own community after false articles were posted by online groups claiming the African migrants had Ebola.

“If they're here in our city, it actually means they've been released from a detention center,” Rogers said.

“They have gone through more health screenings in the last six months than probably most of us go through in our lifetime,” said Dr. Colleen Bridger, interim assistant city manager.

“It's absolutely crucial for me to help people understand that if there's something that is prompting fear in you, to really examine that because there's a chance that that's keeping you from something important,” Rogers said.

He hopes people will research where information comes from and choose compassion over fear.

Since June 4, about 250 migrants from Central Africa have come to San Antonio. Most have already moved onto their final destinations, but the city expects to welcome more people from that region and says it will "treat them with the same compassion" they've given to all 14,000 migrants who have come through San Antonio.

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[Texican]

Fighting Falsehoods: Congolese asylum-seekers in SA do not have Ebola virus
https://www.ksat.com/news/volunteers...D9800900018944

and just how was this determined????

An affidavit from reputable medical staff and medical facility attesting to the statement free from ebola and other diseases????

Texican....

 

[Faroe]

Took SA for South Africa. Little closer to home than that.

Given that you can't prove a negative, and there is no way to ensure that someone from an outbreak zone hasn't been exposed....
Whatever. It's just Ebola.

Love the soap box:
“It's absolutely crucial for me to help people understand that if there's something that is prompting fear in you, to really examine that because there's a chance that that's keeping you from something important,” Rogers said.
He hopes people will research where information comes from and choose compassion over fear.


Maybe that "something important" could include building the wall?
"compassion over fear" Nope, just pissed, and disgusted. Does anyone REALLY believe such CRAP???

 

[StarryEyedLad]

Took SA for South Africa. Little closer to home than that.

Yeah, I thought about that, too. I'll see if I can fit San Antonio in the title.

Given that you can't prove a negative, and there is no way to ensure that someone from an outbreak zone hasn't been exposed....
Whatever. It's just Ebola.

Love the soap box:
“It's absolutely crucial for me to help people understand that if there's something that is prompting fear in you, to really examine that because there's a chance that that's keeping you from something important,” Rogers said.
He hopes people will research where information comes from and choose compassion over fear.


Maybe that "something important" could include building the wall?
"compassion over fear" Nope, just pissed, and disgusted. Does anyone REALLY believe such CRAP???

I know, it's insane. Some really do believe it, and others just have an agenda to push. God help us all.

 

[naturallysweet]

Ebola has been proven to stop around in the human body for at least 2 years. possibly forever. Even after multiples false tests.

Unless we have proof they never were exposed. Then there is no way to claim they don't have ebola.

 

[Profit of Doom]

Did I hear, reliably, that fever is not always present in this outbreak?
Useless for airport screening?

 

[Garand]

Naturallysweet is correct. Once you get Ebola and you are lucky enough to survive, the virus lingers in your system. I would not be surprised if someday the medical experts say that the virus stays in your body for the rest of your life.

 

[Faroe]

Did I hear, reliably, that fever is not always present in this outbreak?
Useless for airport screening?

I never liked the temp screen anyway. Some people have naturally low body temps, and a degree or two of fever shows up as normal. Also, what if you just picked up Ebola an hour before you boarded? The temp gun screen advocates didn't address incubation time in the last go-around, either. How reliable are all the temp guns? In my experience, temp guns are quick and handy, but not perfect. Mine measures the temp on the amount of surface area intersecting the cone of it's field. Distance matters. I take several quick readings, and use the average.

Considering how we treated that nurse who was quarantined in a tent straight off the plane (not that she made her self likable) last time, hundreds show up here illegally, and we just have to try to be compassionate? IIRC, that past "abundance of caution" was Christie's decision. Where is he in all this, this time? I guess quarantine is only for White girls.

 

[Dozdoats]

http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2019/06/trust-but-verify.html?m=1

Thursday, June 13, 2019
Trust, But Verify





Despite some monumentally asinine carping from world-class trolls on several sites, all I've done is consolidated and condensed current information on Ebola, and I present it with the bark on, and reality settings turned up to 100%.

Which is why I get it right, early, more frequently than the acknowledged "experts". I also don't have anybody's @$$ to kiss.

Someone asked me where I'd gotten it into my head that fever was not a component in a yuuuuuge percentage of cases.

I could tell you "Trust me" but that would be b.s.

So instead, I tracked back my quotes, posts, and comments on other blogs, to pin down when and where that factoid came to be.

Here you go:
"In addition, around 50% of confirmed cases do not present fever symptoms which hinders their detection in health facilities and increase the risk of exposure for health workers." - WHO 10/26/2018 Outbreak Summary, p.3 (bottom of page) {emphasis mine -A.}

Tell 'em Casey Stengel sent ya.

The UN's best and brightest medical experts admitted 9 months ago, publicly, and in their own house bulletin, that fever doesn't appear in 50% of people with actual Ebola, in this outbreak.

So no, I didn't just pull this out of my fourth point of contact, or, unlike the CDC @$$clowns, "just make sh*t up".

Now you've got chapter and verse on where this came from.
And it's as reliable a source as you'll ever get.

So now I can say, with a straight face, that when I tell you something, you can trust me.
But I'll give you the references and bibliography if necessary.

Now bear in mind that the one and only tool they use to screen people at airports and Ports Of Entry is...fever.

 

[kenny1659]

Most of them spent more than 21 days even getting to the US. Unless they had Ebola and survived They would be showing symptoms a long time ago.

 

[xtreme_right]

I check the San Antonio news site daily and have yet to see any reporting on this. At first I was confused but then realized it was considered racist to say the “immigrants” could possibly have Ebola. Someone had posted about it on Nextdoor and it was immediately pulled. It seems like anymore, every day is Opposite Day. I often think about how 20 years ago we would never have believed some of the stuff that happens today. What’s that bible verse?

 

[Dozdoats]

Most of them spent more than 21 days even getting to the US

Even by bus, train or plane?

Some folks with a real DEADline might get enhanced travel help from various sources.

 

[sssarawolf]

Ebola has been proven to stop around in the human body for at least 2 years. possibly forever. Even after multiples false tests.

Unless we have proof they never were exposed. Then there is no way to claim they don't have ebola.

Right and just because they appear at our border we're supposed to let them in? Shouldn't be happening.

 

[Yogizorch]

Send them to Cali or Massachusetts or some other sanctuary state.

 

[Matt]

As the money changers like to say in the fine print....Past performance does not guarantee future results......this very well could be the start of the culling.

I personally believe that the abortion/planned parenthood issues have been a call to repentance. Not only ignored, but vehimately opposed by the vast majority of people. Stand by for wrath.

Psalm 91 offers hope to the believers