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To: exDemMom
I have been criticized many times by libertarian FReepers for stating that I fully support quarantine and other measures that subjugate individual freedom in favor of protecting public health.

IF we stop flights out of Africa that's like 'quarantining them, right? So you would be OK with that... They don't have the right to come here and infect us... right?

92 posted on 10/18/2014 7:43:21 PM PDT by GOPJ (The beast roams the earth... there's been a seismic shift in our world. Rabbi Shalom Lewis)
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To: GOPJ
IF we stop flights out of Africa that's like 'quarantining them, right? So you would be OK with that... They don't have the right to come here and infect us... right?

No. I'm for targeted quarantines--keeping people who are known case contacts from flying. And I'm for airport screenings and temperature checks to keep potentially infected people from flying. And for closing our southern border where a whole lot of people with diseases that have significantly more potential to cause widespread illness and death than Ebola are walking right in.

A disease that causes high mortality but is minimally contagious is not as much of a public health issue as a disease that is highly contagious and causes low mortality. Or, in simple language, Ebola is not a public health threat; influenza is. So are measles, polio, Chagas disease, etc.

94 posted on 10/19/2014 6:56:24 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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