[Dark Wing]

>>Obviously there is not enough willing and able
>>government servants to keep the disease from
>>taking in the entirety of the areas it is
>>established in, this now seems obvious since
>>the reports of raided medial facilities, but
>>they can keep it contained at the borders by
>>force and I can assume that is what the plan
>>is now..having failed to contain it within.

The issue here with regard to spread of EVD is the confluence of corruption, culture and crime.

Too a large degree this form of EVD is spreading in populations with low impulse control, low social cohesion/trust and huge amounts of corruption in dealing with people who are not immediately related by blood.

The West as a whole has much larger levels of social trust/cohesion and a willingness to deal fairly with those not of your blood line.

There is, however, a significant exception.

Drug abusers, be they junkies or drunks, the criminal culture that feeds them or is addicted, and the corruption that criminal subculture engenders.

Druggies are not going to be stopped by anything but the fear of immediate death in trying to get their next fix.

That makes them thinking, breathing and irrational EVD vectors.

Anyplace quarantined within walking distance of drug culture areas can expect to be invaded by junkies looking to steal/rob to score their next fix.

So no, I don't have any confidence at all that EVD can be contained, if it makes it to a druggie controlled Urban area in any densely populated city in the Western World.

[PA Engineer]

Drug abusers, be they junkies or drunks, the criminal culture that feeds them or is addicted, and the corruption that criminal subculture engenders.

I would also add the homosexual lifestyle such as bath houses. People have "multiple" sex partners in just one day.

The meme is an individual is "not infectious" until they show symptoms, yet at the same time they are infectious for 60 days post recovery from semen (and urine). There is a contradiction here.

[Smokin' Joe]

Anyplace quarantined within walking distance of drug culture areas can expect to be invaded by junkies looking to steal/rob to score their next fix.

Incredible fomite potential, there, especially as junkies (and other miscreants) would raid the possessions of the dead for stuff to sell.