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Disease doesn't recognize international borders - and it's silly and dangerous to treat it as such. The best place to treat such diseases is as FAR FROM US as possible - or would you rather wait until your neighbor has it?
Ken
You are right but even in the region bordering countries have no reported Ebola cases. So while the disease is contagious it does show that good government and controls can contain the outbreak.
Also I'm more alluding to stories about there being no soap in the entire country, disputes over shipping fees and missing relief funds than simply the disease.
Blood, sweat, urine, spit..all of those are body fluids.
Not all of them are obviously visible that you can see you touched it.
And I don't think our government did justice by playing this down so much to the point where people think you have to practically roll in contaminated blood or vomit to catch it.
In their quest to calm the masses they have dug a deep hole.
Now they have to deal with Duncan's death because most Americans will think he should have survived.
One of the "smart" ones on Twitter was mocking people about not believing the CDC's declared methods of Ebola transmission. He said you can't get Ebola in sweat or that it's hard. So I asked him did he think that even in Africa, people going around touching vomit, blood and urine? It's filthy but people generally are going to avoid touching these things with their bare hands.
He didn't respond. I swear some of these people think they are so smart but lack basic common sense.
One of the "smart" ones on Twitter was mocking people about not believing the CDC's declared methods of Ebola transmission. He said you can't get Ebola in sweat or that it's hard. So I asked him did he think that even in Africa, people going around touching vomit, blood and urine? It's filthy but people generally are going to avoid touching these things with their bare hands.
He didn't respond. I swear some of these people think they are so smart but lack basic common sense.
LOL..it's like "everybody loves the baby" until a smell starts emanating from the diaper.
Dude they could catch a flight from Africa, stay two days in China, then fly into the states. No screening is going to stop that. The airline system doesn't work that way world wide. And contrary to popular belief, we don't have the laws or the public will to stop all incoming international flights over 800 deaths in a third world country.
I'm no more afraid of Ebola then I am HIV. If a large outbreak starts in a large urban area, I'll just go to my dads in the country and wait for everyone to die.
I didn't say screening, that is a really stupid idea...how can you screen folks for the disease, if they don't even know they have it, or are showing signs of symptoms or lie like the last man did?
I'm saying stop all flights in and out of that country, period.
I hope they follow protocol while disposing of his remains.
Yes, it is sad for his friends and family. But consider this: had he recovered, it would have left the strong belief in the affected countries that getting to the US for treatment is life-saving. They would have been trying to get here any way they could once they believed they had been exposed. Now, the sentiment may be that it does not matter. You won't survive it in the US either.
Looks like Jesse has the family primed for a lawsuit, smh. The nephew is on MSNBC playing the race card and the girlfriends issued a statement that saying she hopes all aspects of his care is investigated. What an awful family, no class. I hope the hospital and it's insurers don't settle with them.
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