Some Guys Who Didn’t Bitch and Moan About Quarantine: Apollo 11 Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins & Neil Armstrong, July 1969
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation, U.S. News | Tags: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Michael Collins, Mobile Quarantine Facility, Neil Armstrong, Quarantine, Richard Nixon, USS Hornet 1 Comment
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, in NASA’s mobile quarantine trailer, meet President Nixon aboard the USS Hornet after splashdown, July 1969.
Within the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Apollo 11 astronauts (left to right) Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong relax following their successful lunar landing mission. They spent two-and-a-half-days in the quarantine trailer en route from the USS Hornet to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. The Hornet docked at Pearl Harbor where the trailer was transferred to a jet aircraft for the flight to Houston.
The Nurse Protests: ‘Maine is Apparently Considering Making its Self-Quarantining Guidelines Slightly Less Voluntary’
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Ebola, Hickox, Hot Air, Human rights, Kaci Hickox, Noah Rothman, Nurse, Quarantine 1 Comment
Noah Rothman writes: This should be perfectly intuitive for anyone who has had even fleeting exposure to human nature, but it is easy to suspect that an administration that reflexively bleats “science” in lieu of a cogent argument may lack the requisite experience to know that people will instinctively resist internment.
The media appeared certain that they had in nurse Kaci Hickox a figure they could transform into a victim of the imperious bully Chris Christie when she was involuntarily quarantined after returning to the United States from West Africa where she aided Ebola victims. In creating an object of pity out of Hickox, the press perhaps believed they could take some of the heat off of President Barack Obama who, in opposing the quarantining of those returning from West Africa, is on the wrong side of 80 percent of the public just days before a national election. Read the rest of this entry »
NY Post :’ENEMY WITHIN’ Oct. 25, 2014
Posted: October 24, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Ax Man, Ebola, Global Panic, Islam, Jihad, media, New York City, New York Post, news, Quarantine, Tabloid 1 Comment
Hong Kong quarantines 19 people over second bird flu case
Posted: December 7, 2013 Filed under: Asia, China, Health and Social Issues | Tags: Hong Kong, Ko Wing-man, Mainland China, Quarantine, Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Shenzhen, Tuen Mun Hospital, World Health Organization 2 Comments
AFP – Hong Kong on Saturday quarantined an additional 19 people after the city confirmed its second human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, less than five days after it confirmed its first, officials said.
The 19 people were close contacts of the second carrier of H7N9 in the city — an 80-year-old Hong Kong man who had been living in the neighbouring mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen.
The man developed a fever and was found to be infected with the virus on Friday after he was admitted to the city’s Tuen Mun hospital on Tuesday due to underlying medical conditions.
“Nineteen close contacts of the patient have been quarantined,” a government statement released late Saturday said.
Out of the 19 quarantined, 13 had stayed in the same cubicle with the elderly man at the city’s Tuen Mun hospital, five were his family members, and one other was the taxi driver who drove him from the border to the hospital, the statement said.
Eighteen of the quarantined patients have tested negative for the deadly virus, while the test results for an “asymptomatic” patient was pending. All 19 will be quarantined for 10 days since their last contact with the carrier.
Officials are still investigating whether or not the 80-year-old patient, who remains in stable condition, had come into contact with poultry on the mainland.
On Monday the city admitted a 36-year-old Indonesian domestic helper who was infected with the virus.
“She has a history of travelling to Shenzhen, buying a chicken, slaughtering and eating the chicken,” Hong Kong health minister Ko Wing-man had said of the patient, who remains in a critical condition.
Health officials said they have not found any links between the two cases.
The government has placed 17 people who had been in close contact with the Indonesian patient under quarantine since Tuesday.
Hong Kong is especially alert to the spread of viruses after an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) swept through the city in 2003, killing 299 people and infecting around 1,800.
In all, 138 human cases of H7N9 have been reported in mainland China since February with 45 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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