[zipper]

The reason this is so ominous is not because these health-care workers may have infected someone else in the time before they were isolated — that is not highly likely, since they were immediately isolated at first symptoms, and were undoubtingly in home quarantine anyway. This localized outbreak in Dallas is likely to be contained.

It is ominous because we have open borders, the disease defies conventional protocols, and 150 people from the affected countries are flying on airplanes into the USA every day. If just one has an active infection the potential is there to infect hundreds of others before anyone intervenes.

Without quarantine procedures for incoming passengers it’s just a matter of time before that happens.

[DB]

Frankly I don’t believe they know if you are only contagious after showing symptoms. They are acting like they know things they don’t to instill confidence - whether it’s true or not.

[clearcarbon]

"The reason this is so ominous is not because these health-care workers may have infected someone else in the time before they were isolated — that is not highly likely, since they were immediately isolated at first symptoms, and were undoubtingly in home quarantine anyway. This localized outbreak in Dallas is likely to be contained."

The hospital employee victims would be the easiest to identify because they knew of the potential exposure. The unknown exposures are the ones to lose sleep over.

[Hostage]

Passenger airplanes are the worst environments for spread of influenza. Airborne virus inside cabins almost always give me cold. cough or fever symptoms a day or so later.

If Ebola goes airborne, I think this becomes a major crisis.

I also dread to think about schools and children. As parents we all know how families pick up illnesses by what their children pick up at school.

I am still sitting on the fence on all of this as it could be hyped up or it could be real.

[palmer]

This localized outbreak in Dallas is likely to be contained.

Little doubt about that. The problem is, as you said, 150 people arriving every day potentially carrying the disease. 1/1000 will have it on average right now, but that will only increase.

[PapaBear3625]

The reason this is so ominous is not because these health-care workers may have infected someone else in the time before they were isolated — that is not highly likely, since they were immediately isolated at first symptoms, and were undoubtingly in home quarantine anyway. This localized outbreak in Dallas is likely to be contained.

The Dallas nurse's boyfriend is in isolation for monitoring. If he gets sick, then he will have gotten it from BEFORE she was symptomatic, because she went right in at the first indication of fever.

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

Anybody that isn’t scared by this is brain dead!

People should be protesting at the white house. Not that that would do a damned thing, but it would be nice to see the American people waking up.

I didn’t vote for this bastard in office! That is my only comfort right now!