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The botched up mess in Dallas has everything to do with the government. Our government should never have issued a visa to him to allow him to come here. He is on a tourist visa. They are quarantining people by posting guards there 24/7. What is all that costing taxpayers? And this is only the first case; just wait until there are others. Our government needs to ban people coming into this country from anywhere in West Africa. If one has a drug conviction on their record, they are going to have trouble getting into many countries, including Japan and Canada, but out government lets everyone come here, even those with highly contagious diseases.
That's what pisses me off the most, issuing tourist visas to people in Ebola-stricken countries! What are they thinking? I wouldn't have been nearly as upset if the guy was a Liberian-American coming back from visiting family, but to find out he's not even a U.S. citizen!
Now these bozos are hyping contact tracing as the most effective way of limiting the spread of Ebola when if a simple travel ban was imposed from the start there would not even be a need for contract tracing.
You're also in some Podunk town in PA. Talking to someone you have known for years.
Pittsburgh isn't a Podunk town. We have excellent medical schools and healthcare here. Didn't you noticed some of the experts being quoted in the articles are from Pittsburgh? A nurse knowing me for years means she knows my intelligence and my ability to know what's going on with my body. I'm not going to be specific about what caused my symptoms, but let me assure you that I do not have a virus.
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Perhaps if you were in the Dallas area, talking to someone who didn't know you so well, you would have gotten a different reaction.
Oh, you mean like the ER sending someone with ebola home? That's hilarious! LOL
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Depending on how far this spreads we might start seeing different reactions.
Today in Podunk, PA it is no big deal, down the road someone placing a call like that might be getting a knock on the door.
Highly doubtful since I didn't have a fever, haven't traveled outside of the country, haven't been in contact with anyone who traveled outside of the country, haven' been around anyone who has been sick, and can specifically state what caused my symptoms.
Now these bozos are hyping contact tracing as the most effective way of limiting the spread of Ebola when if a simple travel ban was imposed from the start there would not even be a need for contract tracing.
Because the citizens of those Ebola-stricken countries look like our President.
This is a scary window on the mindset of this Administration. I know this guy is not in this Administration, but he definitely shares some of the same views:
Depending on how far this spreads we might start seeing different reactions.
Today in Podunk, PA it is no big deal, down the road someone placing a call like that might be getting a knock on the door.
It's not all about YOU. You only seem to relate to anything only if you're impacted directly.
I didn't say anywhere that it was about you. I said "down the road SOMEONE placing a call like that might be getting a knock on the door"...wasn't talking about you...sigh.
You did the same thing on the ISIS thread about this country being attacked, as long as it didn't happen by you it didn't matter.
The botched up mess in Dallas has nothing to do with government. That was the hospital and probably local officials.
I do think the CDC should tighten the rules and guidelines concerning travel though.
It is both the hospitals fault and the CDC fault. The CDC JUST now transported the family from the infected building to another place. They allowed the sweat stained sheets and towels stay in the room for days. They took their good old time disinfecting the place. Is this what we called prepared?
Thank you for clarifying. I was walking through my living room while it was playing on TV, but to me he looked like Thomas Frieden with the CDC. I still think the authorities are being so cavalier about this to calm fears to the point where it breeds mistrust from the public and is actually counter-productive. I'm not reassured any time I see them on television making statements about how we cannot restrict travel (of course we can), or how hard it is to get from someone with the virus.
My daughter somehow picked up the idea at school that Ebola spreads like HIV/AIDS. I had to explain how difficult it really is to get HIV. It is blood contact only, like Hep C, but that Ebola actually can be found in other bodily fluids. This kind of disinformation may make kids and adults feel better, but it also may cause complacency. That kind of language is how a man from Liberia and showing symptoms of Ebola can get sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Complacency can be dangerous.
So you're saying it's only possible to get HIV/AIDS from blood contact?
You might want to rethink that opinion.
Your daughter was as correct as one can be given what is known (or at least admitted to) at this point.
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. You only seem to relate to anything only if you're impacted directly.
