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Part 18
"Geez man, I thought you had more sense than that." Bill said.
"I know, it was a stupid thing to do and I acted rash." Jim replied.
In any good crew, their is one person that can override the team leader on many issues. That person is the medic. On issues of medical treatment, preventive medicine, health and sanitation, their word is the "final answer."
This was one of those issues and Bill's word was final. Jim couldn't blame him. It was the right thing to do. Bill, Jim and Steve would have a 2 week quarantine from the rest of the Group. This was resulting from the contact with the refugees.
Strictly logical in nature. The quarantine plans were made years ago when the Group laid out it's plans for surviving a biological attack.
Only a handful of Group members actually lived near the retreat. It was possible that if any of the long distance group members left too late during an emergency, that they would bring a disease with them to the retreat.
The Group designated several quarantine areas a reasonable distance away from the retreat. A visual signal was planned and several "bio boxes" as the Group called them, made up ahead of time.
These "bio boxes" included supplies for 14 days (just in case the member arriving arrived without any supplies), a laminated sheet with quarantine procedures and SOP's, a field phone that could be connected to an already laid wire to the retreat, various antibiotics, a Merck manual and a laminated quick reference sheet covering the most likely used biological agents and their treatment.
In addition, drop points were established at several locations 400 yards or more outside of the retreat. If the quarantined person arrived without even a firearm or means of shelter, all he had to do was hook up the field phone, call in and other group members would "drop" the items he needed at a drop point. The quarantined person, or potential vector depending on how you look at it, would wait a distance away from the drop point until he received a signal that the party was clear of the drop point. Then and only then could he move forward and retrieve the items from the drop point. Drop points could only be used once, for if it was a highly communicable disease, the disease might be left by the "vector" at the drop site after pickup.
Group members knew if they arrived too late after any potential bio attack, that they would have to submit to this quarantine. Deadly force would be necessary if the "vectors" approached to the retreat. This was necessary for the protection of the whole group.
After a two week quarantine and a prophylactic dose of antibiotics, each potential "vector" would decontaminate, leaving all unnecessary gear for the time being and be checked over by one of the Group's medics. Only after this would they be allowed into the retreat.
This was what awaited Jim, Steve, Bill and the girls.
"Geez man, I thought you had more sense than that." Bill said.
"I know, it was a stupid thing to do and I acted rash." Jim replied.
In any good crew, their is one person that can override the team leader on many issues. That person is the medic. On issues of medical treatment, preventive medicine, health and sanitation, their word is the "final answer."
This was one of those issues and Bill's word was final. Jim couldn't blame him. It was the right thing to do. Bill, Jim and Steve would have a 2 week quarantine from the rest of the Group. This was resulting from the contact with the refugees.
Strictly logical in nature. The quarantine plans were made years ago when the Group laid out it's plans for surviving a biological attack.
Only a handful of Group members actually lived near the retreat. It was possible that if any of the long distance group members left too late during an emergency, that they would bring a disease with them to the retreat.
The Group designated several quarantine areas a reasonable distance away from the retreat. A visual signal was planned and several "bio boxes" as the Group called them, made up ahead of time.
These "bio boxes" included supplies for 14 days (just in case the member arriving arrived without any supplies), a laminated sheet with quarantine procedures and SOP's, a field phone that could be connected to an already laid wire to the retreat, various antibiotics, a Merck manual and a laminated quick reference sheet covering the most likely used biological agents and their treatment.
In addition, drop points were established at several locations 400 yards or more outside of the retreat. If the quarantined person arrived without even a firearm or means of shelter, all he had to do was hook up the field phone, call in and other group members would "drop" the items he needed at a drop point. The quarantined person, or potential vector depending on how you look at it, would wait a distance away from the drop point until he received a signal that the party was clear of the drop point. Then and only then could he move forward and retrieve the items from the drop point. Drop points could only be used once, for if it was a highly communicable disease, the disease might be left by the "vector" at the drop site after pickup.
Group members knew if they arrived too late after any potential bio attack, that they would have to submit to this quarantine. Deadly force would be necessary if the "vectors" approached to the retreat. This was necessary for the protection of the whole group.
After a two week quarantine and a prophylactic dose of antibiotics, each potential "vector" would decontaminate, leaving all unnecessary gear for the time being and be checked over by one of the Group's medics. Only after this would they be allowed into the retreat.
This was what awaited Jim, Steve, Bill and the girls.
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