Posted on 11/13/2014 10:45:21 AM PST by justlittleoleme
More than 80 U.S. military personnel helping to fight the Ebola outbreak in Liberia are set to return home Thursday afternoon after completing their assignments, defense officials said. While none of them are currently showing signs of the deadly virus, they will all be transported to a special facility at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in southeastern Virginia for 21 days of monitoring.
The returning military personnel in Virginia — from all four branches of service — will be housed in buildings located in a secluded area of the base, and will have the appropriate amenities, officials said. They will still be allowed to communicate with their families electronically.
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The whole group should be given minimal duty (keep the barracks clean) for the 21 days.
Why are they returning so soon?
Mission accomplished!
Wrong approach to quarrantine that will blow up in their face if someone comes back sick and infects healthy individuals. If one person is sick, everyone potentially becomes infected. If that happens, you lose confidence in the system and people resist quarrantine by violence if necessary. They SHOULD be kept in isolation, individual rooms with no shared facilities, meals brought into room by medical personnel following appropriate protocols.
There is no reason to keep asymptomatic people in that level of isolation.
Just sayin'.....
Yes, there is reason. Quarantine is not a game of round robin. How do you know they are or aren't infected? 13% don't get a fever and 18% don't go hemorrhagic with this strain. Ship back another group next and mix them in with this group will set the first group's 21 days back to day 1. If course, now WHO is wanting 42 days to get past 99% of them going symptomatic.
If you are quarrantining someone against their will under penalty of law who shows no signs of illness, then the bar gets raised— you damned well better protect them from becoming infected by others who may be sick. As I said, one case of this is all it takes to lose public confidence and lose control of the situation— effective quarrantine requires public confidence, trust, and some degree of cooperation- when facilities become perceived as death camps game over.
Unlike Mz Nursie Poo, hook me up with the internet, a bag of chips and a coke and I’d be fine sitting out 21 days.
These GIs are being quarantined legally and correctly for their circumstances, they are not at high risk evidently, yet are being isolated and screened twice a day.
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