A ship of fools?
Skipping the previous two for the moment - looking for more data.
On this one:
"Internal emails reviewed by Reuters reveal the
complications of managing outbreaks like the one at Pine Prairie,
since immigrant detainees often are transferred around the country and infected people do not necessarily show symptoms of viral diseases even when they are contagious.
"Mumps can easily spread through droplets of saliva in the air, especially in close quarters. While most people recover within a few weeks, complications include brain swelling, sterility and hearing loss.
…
"The first cases at Pine Prairie were detected in January in four migrants who had been recently transferred from the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, according to internal emails.
"Tallahatchie, run by private detention company CoreCivic Inc, has had five confirmed cases of mumps and 18 cases of chicken pox since January, according to company spokeswoman Amanda Gilchrist. She said no one who was diagnosed was transferred out of the facility while the disease was active.
…
"However,
vaccination rates in the countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are above 90 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ICE detainees come from countries all over the world, with varying degrees of vaccination coverage.
"‘HIGH-PROFILE REMOVAL’
"At Pine Prairie,
staff members were at times at odds with the warden about how to manage the mumps outbreak, internal emails show. The
warden decided not to quarantine 40 new arrivals from Tallahatchie in February despite concerns raised by the medical staff, one email showed.
...
"In a Feb. 21 email,
ICE requested that medical staff members at Pine Prairie clear a detainee quarantined for chicken pox and mumps for travel, calling him a “high-profile removal scheduled for deport.” In an email to staff later that day,
warden Ramos wrote that medical staff had wanted to exclude the detainee from transfer but “ICE wants him to travel out of the country anyway ... Please ensure he leaves.”
"ICE spokesman Raedy said that
travel is restricted for people who are known to be contagious but those exposed to diseases who are
asymptomatic can travel."
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Note first of all that we have rent-a-cops handling detainees - whose directors apparently routinely overrule their medical staff on quarantine. Which says to me that like the previous case in AZ, these warehousers of bodies aren't trained nor equipped to deal with quarantine. EMTs & ERs - anybody who handles lots of body fluids, including prisons, hospitals, detention centers - should be wearing masks & rubber gloves, @ a minimum. They should also know to call for clean up of bodily fluids, vomit, etc. & know to watch for symptoms of infectious disease - if only out of self-defense.
Management of these dumping grounds apparently don't understand what a quarantine is - to manage a quarantine, no possibly contagious detainees should be moved @ all - & if they're in quarantine, the best bet & common practice is to isolate them, not pack them into crowded, stuffy aircraft or buses for hours @ a time, potentially exposing other detainees, aircrew & anyone else who comes into contact with them.
If people are not willing to step up to their responsibilities, they should be removed from positions of authority, as quickly as possible. This would all be easier to implement if actual prison/detention center administrators & staff - to include trained & licensed health personnel (doctors &/or nurses) - with actual authority over patients & quarantined detainees - were doing the job, instead of available bodies with questionable or no backgrounds in handling detainees.
In the AZ case, there were staff who were not vaccinated - that's unacceptable for working with detainees - especially since the media seem to be barking frantically that all these immigrants or would-be asylees are teeming with diseases, exotic & domestic. Did the rent-a-cops not get the memo? They don't read their local newspapers nor watch the news?
