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Yes, I'm comfortable. They're American citizens what other options are there? Let them die abroad?
I will say this though didn't one or both of the doctors contract Ebola even while wearing full hazmat suits? If so people do have a right to be concerned.
1 person flies in to a very safe and quarantined hospital, vs sending 100 into unsanitary conditions, with a VASTLY higher chance of getting it?
Uhmmmm no.
This virus is not as contagious as people seem to think it is.
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If it's not very contagious, then how did these two get it when obviously taking all kinds of precautions?
I didn't literally mean 100 doctors should be sent over there to treat them - but 15 or 20 may be appropriate. Have them take all the precautions they are taking at Emory (to the extent possible). If anyone who travels over there to help them shows symptoms, have them stay until their symptoms are gone.
It's not rocket science - keep the US free of people with this disease.
I agree. It seem ridiculous when people claim Ebola isn't that contagious when there are trained medical workers who not only wear full-body protective suits when caring for people who are infected with Ebola but also some of the medical workers caught Ebola despite their very cautious procedures. If the infected people the CDC are bringing back to the US aren't a threat to the health of this country then why are they using high-quarantine procedures?
Put your mind at ease re that scenario. Any child - or adult - in the contagious stage of Ebola would be too sick to come to school.
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Sure, people are going to just stay home when they begin to feel ill. This is the US. We have no alternatives. Parents send their sick kids to school all the time. American workers don't have sick leave and often go to work near death. People with no insurance will show up at ERs with full blown symptoms and infect everyone they come in contact with. It will be spread.
Yep, people would just as carelessly allow Ebola to spread just like "the flu". "The flu" is very contagious and it kills some elderly people & babies yet a lot of people in our society don't care.
Since the Ebola virus has never been introduced to the North American continent, NO ONE really knows what will happen. Will it mutate with a virus that it has never encountered before and become an airborne disease?
Hell, this may be God's plan anyway. This entire country is going from "In God We Trust" to a cesspool of immorality.
Since the Ebola virus has never been introduced to the North American continent, NO ONE really knows what will happen. Will it mutate with a virus that it has never encountered before and become and airborne disease?
Hell, this may be God's plan anyway. This entire country is going from "In God We Trust" to a cesspool of immorality.
Good thing the African victims didn't have the flu when they caught Ebola.
The human body is quite good at genetically modifying things.
Yes, I'm comfortable. They're American citizens what other options are there? Let them die abroad?
I will say this though didn't one or both of the doctors contract Ebola even while wearing full hazmat suits? If so people do have a right to be concerned.
Why can't that be an option? It seems like that is party of the risk of choosing to go overseas to work on a deadly disease. Send volunteers and supplies to help them, but why not contain such a deadly disease instead of flying it over an ocean to our country?
Why can't that be an option? It seems like that is party of the risk of choosing to go overseas to work on a deadly disease. Send volunteers and supplies to help them, but why not contain such a deadly disease instead of flying it over an ocean to our country?
Bush udda sent 'em ta Guantanamo Bay cuza da risk of terrifying Americans.
My son is in the military and is FORCED to go to Africa. God forbid he should contract this disease but should he contract it under military orders to go, then I would be furious if he couldn't be treated in the states.
I wonder, if they have to bury them here, if they will be embalmed in chlorine, or just plain old formaldehyde.
Well, do both and then cremate - in an NIH incinerator with the proper scrubbers in the stack.
Their chance of recovery is remote at best and if they do recover they will probably have some terrible side affects their whole life, like light sensitivity, constant tearing of the eyes and even blindness. Not to mention terrible bone and joint pain, much like arthritis but much worse.
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