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There are no flights between the US and Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone. People going to/ coming from these nations are routed through Europe or Asia. So you are talking about banning almost all international flights.
You don't need to ban all international flights. You simply need every other country in the world to ban flights from west Africa and not accept travellers who have been there. Temporarily, until the epidemic slows down there. Simple. Easy. Problem solved.
But no. Apparently it's somehow preferable to spend money on silly 'monitoring' at airports (which worked oh so well in Sawyer's case) and testing new patients for ebola who have travelled to Africa every day and people like myself having to wonder every morning whether there could be a case in my state. I'm assuming it's because there's funding to be gained for those activities, that wouldn't be the case for a travel suspension. Money over health or anything else, that's how it goes here.
I don't know - I'm just passing on a news story. But about 40 percent of Ebola patients do recover.
If surviving a disease that dissolves your internal organs and has them leave the body in liquid form is your idea of a good time, go for it.
Me, I'm more terrified of the disease itself than the fact that it's deadly. The idea of surviving this thing is not really any less scary than dying from it, quite honestly. I can think of many, many other ways I would prefer to die.
Those who recover can have serious life-long complications too.
ETA: Sorry, KathrynAragon, didn't notice it was your quote so didn't mean to sound quite so snarky, you are actually one of the rational voices on this on the forum
If surviving a disease that dissolves your internal organs and has them leave the body in liquid form is your idea of a good time, go for it.
Me, I'm more terrified of the disease itself than the fact that it's deadly. The idea of surviving this thing is not really any less scary than dying from it, quite honestly. I can think of many, many other ways I would prefer to die.
Those who recover can have serious life-long complications too.
ETA: Sorry, KathrynAragon, didn't notice it was your quote so didn't mean to sound quite so snarky, you are actually one of the rational voices on this on the forum
Okay, I've been seeing a lot of freak out posts from people panicking about Ebola possibly getting loose in the US. Let's all just take a deep breath, calm down, and actually look at the facts. It's not your fault however, it's the mainstream media's.They're always spreading misinformation and trying to scare people, don't listen to them. They have agendas, they want ratings, and they don't really care how they get them. Also stop listening to doomsday conspiracy theorist nut-jobs (*cough* Alex Jones *cough*). This is why it's important to become a critical thinker and do your own research. Consider this a public service announcement.
Here are some facts about Ebola that you need to know:
-You cannot catch Ebola through the air, through water, or through food. The virus (yes it's a virus, not a disease, there's a big difference) is spread through human contact via bodily fluids (vomit, sweat, blood, urine, semen etc...). This puts people that work in hospitals at risk, HOWEVER people with Ebola are NOT infectious until the symptoms appear. Symptoms such as diarrhea, fevers etc...
-Ebola is not a death sentence. There are numerous cases of people surviving the virus. The reason why there are so many reported deaths contributed to Ebola is because the Ebola outbreak is in Western Africa, a poverty stricken and war-torn region part of the world that lacks quality healthcare. They lack the necessary resources to combat and treat the Ebola virus unlike Western Nations.
-Ebola has appeared in other Western countries before. This is due to people traveling to third world countries and bringing the virus back with them. However in every case the people who were infected were immediately found, treated, and contained.
-The Ebola virus will not become an epidemic here in the United States. We have too many resources available. In a worst case scenario it could infect a small group of people here about the size of a village, but even that is highly unlikely. So stop with these "The Walking Ebola" apocalypse scenarios.
Please learn the facts and share the facts. The biggest thing to fear are the uneducated people spewing nonsense and scaring the masses of other uneducated people into hysteria .
Some of this information put out by the WHO as well as the CDC is actually contradictory. For instance, the CDC website states that only people who are symptomatic can pass along Ebola. But the Ebola virus stays alive in, for example, the semen of someone who survives Ebola (and there are quite a few survivors) for up to seven weeks after symptoms subside.
CNN reporter Sanjay Gupta states that at least 6 Americans have been tested for Ebola (so far all tests have been negative). The test can be read in one day - sometimes in just a few hours - but usually US tests are sent to the CDC and the results are not made available for 24-48 hours.
You didn't read my post or my links. None of it is contradictory, it's just people not understanding it or the media falsely misinforming people.
Ebola is NOT infectious UNTIL the symptoms appear. I'm not saying there's nothing to fear, I'm just saying that this whole thing is being blown out of proportion and people need to keep their heads on and remain collected.
CNN is probably the worst place to get your information about this from. Like I said before, the mainstream media has an agenda, they want hits, they don't care how they get them.
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