As the Ebola epidemic in Africa continues, the National Institute of Health is going to be starting voluntary human trials for an experimental Ebola vaccine in September. They have said the vaccine has showed “encouraging results” in primates. The study will be finished in January and they are hoping for positive results. If approved they will have it ready sometime in 2015 to be shipped over to Africa in hopes of containing this horrible disease. Hopefully the people of the United States will not have a need for this vaccine, if the outbreak can be isolated to just Africa. Full Story here…
Back here in the United States the majority of the populace is concerned, but not panicked as no domestic cases have been reported. Even though we have been fortunate thus far, preparations are well underway in case the worst were to take place. At the beginning of August president Obama updated a previous executive order 13295 which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.”
The amendment signed by Obama replaces subsection (b) of the original Bush executive order which referred only to SARS. Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who display, “Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.”
Although Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness, with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical authorities.
Which brings me full circle to a topic that many Americans may have forgotten. That is forced vaccinations, back when the swine flu was being touted by the mainstream media as a possible epidemic this debate surfaced. On one hand you had the pro forced vaccination people who’s argument was that unvaccinated people threaten the quote “herd immunity”. Effectively saying that unvaccinated people could carry the disease and possibly infect others despite them being vaccinated. The other side of the argument is that individuals under the constitution, have the right of determining what they put into their bodies. No matter what side you are on, odds are your going to get another opportunity to fight for your ideology.
If the Ebola pandemic doesn’t become realized in the United States, their will be pandemic in the future that will bring this issue to a head. Be aware that one day you will receive a knock on your front door and instead of it being a census worker, who is there to ask you a bunch of invasive questions and you can choose to just slam the door in their face. This time it will be another vassal of the state with a needle in his hand saying that they need to come in and inject your entire family for your protection. If you choose to refuse, you will be effectively arrested and detained against your will for the quote “public safety”
What will you do?
-Trevor
@kfir720am