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Unfortunately yes, this has been the case there for a long time.
It's a mindset and it's taught from birth in most Asian countries like China, Korea and Japan. It's of great disrespect to harm others, or even be upset with others. That's why they wear face masks when ill.
But, Africa has it's own traditional mindset, and so does America. Neither conducive to facial masks or infecting others.
We have nothing but trust to rely on, hopefully most people will do the right thing but I hate to admit I have my doubts.
I feel for you living next to the outbreak.
Haven't read the entire thread but just watched a segment on Charlie Rose about Ebola. Essentially, they said, get your heads out of the sand, everyone wake up....it's here.
We won't see any more than a few very small clusters here in the US and other countries that have a good public health care system and an educated citizenry.
However, ebola may be devasting to some thirdworld countries like India where there are strong superstitions about how to handle the dead, such as carrying them to the grave or funeral pyre, or touching, slobbering and crying on corpses. It'll be interesting to see if it changes the equation in the Middle East, but I don't know anything about their funeral practices.
I have spoken.
<sputter>... please tell me you are joking... America's public health system is better than good, its excellent... if you can afford it. The majority of Americans can't. They are relegated to receiving hospitals and... ... well you saw what happened along with the rest of us. How can you remain smug and superior with the evidence of the fact that individual Americans are no smarter, no more gifted with powers of omniscience, no better at all in fact, than individual Africans of similar attainment.
I think he knew too and others will flock here for treatment since people live through it if they are exposed. This will become a new problem.
If I was sick, handicapped, deformed, etc., I would do everything within my power to get to the US or Europe to get the best medical care they can provide.
Wonder how many people coming from central America have health issues, diseases and viruses and end up here in the US?
It seems like only our Politicians like the complete open Borders.
Yeah, I think you know what I was saying when I said "knowingly expose himself". Good grief, you're not that obtuse, are you? And no, he didn't knowingly expose others to ebola. He didn't know he had ebola. If he did, THEN I would say he knowingly exposed others to it. As I mentioned in a previous post, I'll hold off on my hysteria. Maybe you should do the same, you're getting awfully worked up about something that really doesn't affect you, now does it?
How do you know? Kathryn is in Texas, so it may very well affect her.
Our country does not have any safeguards in place to prevent an infected person from coming on American soil. The departing Africans are checked for fever before they board the plane. In this case, the infected person did not register a fever.
But it took 6.5 hours to reach Brussels, and then had a 7 hour layover. The flight from Brussels to DFW airport took another 15 hours. That is 28.5 hours since he was checked for fever. No one checked him when he arrived in the US. Early symptoms are headache, fatigue, etc. which he could have attributed to jet lag. Who knows if he were contagious earlier than the 24th? Even if HE wasn't, what is to stop others from becoming symptomatic (and contagious) during the long flight?
Our administration is doing a very poor job of protecting US citizens from the risk of Ebola. No matter how politically incorrect some may feel it to be, some type of safeguard regarding arriving passengers from an Ebola plagued country needs to happen, and soon.
My family uses the DART train here in Dallas frequently, and especially now with the state fair going on, the trains and buses are packed. Once an infected person starts contaminating others, it is too easy for it to spread in this congested city. No matter how much our leaders want to "reassure" us there is no need for concern.
They need to restrict immigration and tourists from Africa from entering the USA. And not allow people from here to visit Africa and return to the USA. Easy as that wait for this thing to blow over.
How do you know? Kathryn is in Texas, so it may very well affect her.
Thanks.
Not only am I in Texas, I'm less than 100 miles from the apartment complex. And furthermore, my daughter and her husband and three of my grandchildren are in the process as we speak of moving here as well. So yes, I'm concerned - not hysterical, but concerned.
We fly a lot too - my husband's work means that he flies in and out of DFW at least once a month, and I often fly from there as well.
To add an interesting point - my husband used to work in Liberia and Nigeria and Angola and Equatorial Guinea. He's actually been quarantined there before due to outbreaks of disease - that's right - NOT ALLOWED TO COME HOME UNTIL IT WAS CERTAIN HE WAS DISEASE FREE. We took it in stride - though after one too many times of that he did change jobs to avoid such personal drama.
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