Chickenpox spread blamed for migrant unrest
(CNS): Following news Wednesday night of a disturbance at the Customs and Border Control Detention Centre at Fairbanks, the CBC said on Thursday afternoon that the situation was now calm. The unrest appears to have erupted after more migrants came down with chickenpox, as the virus appears to be spreading among those detained by border control. The Cubans who had contracted the virus previously were being held separately at the Breakers Civic Centre but that location is now full.
CBC said the Public Health Department had told them that segregating the population at the detention centre was no longer necessary at this stage as the virus runs its course. Migrants who are showing signs of the illness are under the care of Public Health and treatment is being provided as necessary.
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Probably not chickenpox, its them welts from our damn mutant monster swarms of mosquitos. I think the mosquito plane must be sick with chickenpox though, maybe Covid, maybe monkeypox, haven’t seen it since 2019.
CIG, make your press release better next time, say why.
In this case, why “segregating the population at the detention centre was no longer necessary at this stage as the virus runs its course”?
While I can guess some reasons, CIG press releases like this always leave me with as many new questions as old ones answered.
Thank you.
It was “no longer necessary “ because a) they had run out of places to segregate them anyway and b) by that stage they had all been exposed to the point where segregating them was too little too late.
So how long will they to be detained and what is the plan. Cannot keep human beings locked up indefinitely, they are refugees not criminals.
Send them back home not our problem
Wow a true humanitarian
Appears you are our problem.
I bet 99% of them are vaccinated or already had chicken pox. They do vaccinate people in Cuba.
Chickenpox vaccine is fairly new so I bet if they haven’t had it, they are in lots of pain as it’s harder on you the older you are when you get it.
1995 isnt really fairly new but ok
Lots of places don’t routinely administer it, including the U.K. Looked but couldn’t see it on the CUBA vaccination schedule either.
So you think they were all born after 1995? Lol
Cuba isn’t fairly new and advanced either, despite what some love to claim. There’s a reason why so Cubans go to extreme measures to leave.
Tell us what their reason(s) are.