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Title: Wanted: Ebola screeners at JFK for $19 an hour
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NY Post
URL Source: http://nypost.com/2014/10/18/airpor ... ng-medics-for-ebola-screening/
Published: Oct 18, 2014
Author: Jennifer Bain, Philip Messing, Danika Fe
Post Date: 2014-10-18 12:09:20 by scrapper2
Keywords: Ebola screeners wanted
Views: 103
Comments: 9
They’re looking for the few, the proud — and the really desperate. For a measly $19 an hour, a government contractor is offering applicants the opportunity to get up close and personal with potential Ebola patients at JFK Airport — including taking their temperatures. Angel Staffing Inc. is hiring brave souls with basic EMT or paramedic training to assist Customs and Border Protection officers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in identifying possible victims at Terminal 4, where amped-up Ebola screening started on Saturday. EMTs will earn just $19 an hour, while paramedics will pocket $29. Everyone must be registered with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. The medical staffing agency is also selecting screeners to work at Washington Dulles, Newark Liberty, Chicago O’Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airports. “Wow, that’s really scary . . . Be safe everybody,” Facebook user Jaclyn Namer wrote under a posting for the job. Others were a little more eager to lend a hand. “I can help on weekends in Chicago,” Jeremy Voris volunteered on Facebook. As part of the new screening process, travelers arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia must answer questions upon arrival, then have their temperatures taken with no-touch thermometers, CDC Director Thomas Frieden announced last week. Coast Guard corpsmen with EMT training are also being recruited for the risky screening gig, a source said. About 150 people travel from or through the three Ebola-afflicted countries to the US every day, customs officials said. Most of them land at JFK, where officers fear catching the deadly disease. “We were told what to do for a passenger, but what happens with us? What if I get a fever? What should I do?” one officer said. The officer was also troubled by possible flaws in the screening plan. “For example, if someone has 108 fever and we catch it after they deplane, there were 132 other people on the plane with him and you just let them go,” he said. “You just possibly contaminated the person next to you and the flight attendant who handed you something.” Meanwhile, a law-enforcement official at JFK was outraged over the handling of a plane carrying a man from Nigeria who died following an onboard vomiting fit. The door to the jet was already open when first responders showed up. Even though Ebola isn’t airborne, the official insisted it could have been a potential health threat. “We don’t know if anybody bolted from that plane or if the inside of the door is contaminated,” he said. Poster Comment: ...“We were told what to do for a passenger, but what happens with us? What if I get a fever? What should I do?” one officer said. The officer was also troubled by possible flaws in the screening plan. “For example, if someone has 108 fever and we catch it after they deplane, there were 132 other people on the plane with him and you just let them go,” he said. “You just possibly contaminated the person next to you and the flight attendant who handed you something.”...
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#1. To: All (#0)
Shovel ready jobs Obama promised...( I couldn't resist)...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Too funny ! "I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.". Étienne de La Boétie
I like that.
Insanity....
#2. To: scrapper2 (#1)
#3. To: scrapper2 (#1)
#4. To: scrapper2 (#1)
Shovel ready jobs Obama promised...( I couldn't resist)...
#5. To: scrapper2 (#0)
About 150 people travel from or through the three Ebola-afflicted countries to the US every day, customs officials said.
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
Here's more insanity, which was perceptively described by a Czech politician. This quote came from the Czech Republic Observer... "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.". Insanity....
#7. To: scrapper2 (#0)
TSA would probably handle that task, but only if they could use rectal thermometers.
#8. To: Obnoxicated (#7)
lol - yep, and for $7.50/hour.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#9. To: scrapper2 (#6)
I recall when no one voted for Lyndon Johnson. Re run again, no one voted for Oboma. The electorate is indeed stupid, they believe it is their patriotic duty to vote. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.".
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