“the nation will prohibit residents from leaving their homes for four days”
Likely coming to a city near you in the USA, by late next year...
The horse is out of the barn.
I’d like to see all air carriers suspend service to those countries, it only takes one infected person to spread it to another continent..
This is a smart move. It should be longer than four days but they are probably thinking people wouldn’t have enough food to last that long.
In this case, this might be a very effective idea.
Ebola can be in the body anywhere from 2 to 15 days before it shows symptoms, though usually in about 3-4 days. However, it can only spread the infection when the person is showing symptoms, a major vulnerability in the spread of the virus.
When they show symptoms, they usually last only 10 days before dying. But half of those days they are immobile, flat on their back.
This means an about 5 day window of opportunity for the disease to infect others.
Look at the stages of the disease if people must remain in their homes for 4 days.
1) If they are newly infected, the odds are high they will show symptoms within 4 days, so are sort-of quarantined.
2) If they show symptoms at home, odds are good that by the time they could leave, they will almost be incapacitated, so can’t leave.
3) Importantly, if there are other family members with them, they could cause a secondary effect, but this would likely be a much smaller echo of the primary epidemic.
More likely you over estimated your current capabilities. Which seem to shrink every day.
Read where some are calling it a mass epidemic. When it reaches 18 million like the 1918 Spanish flu, put it up on Drudge. With the flashing light thingie.
BA, ping to thread. I think this is a new development.
Apparently the health officials have not been told that the dangers of Ebola are highly exaggerated and it is not spread by casual contact.