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The science on Quarantines is over 100 years old and is proven time and time again....
The Science on Gore-Bull Warming is only 30-40 years old and dubious at best...
But hey the science that a Quantine works is not “settled enough” for the crazy open border morons ...
I’d much rather have a “panicky overreaction” that inconveniences someone for 21 days, than an underreaction that spreads a highly terminal illness, ends up costing lives, costs hospitals $500,000 per patient, and increases public fear of using public transportation systems.
Nigeria apparently stopped the obola in their country by CLOSING THEIR BORDERS....but the big important American faker in chief is just too smart to have to do that....afterall, we're just Americans, most of us white Christians, so why should he care....
I would like Mr. Sullum to define precisely when a person carrying the Ebola virus becomes contagious together with the indications that said individual must then self-quarantine. I want him to tell me precisely at what point in the course of infection the first viral particle leaves the human colon.
I'll bet that nobody knows the answer to that question. Hence the abundance of caution that obliterates Mr. Sullum's argument.
It’s been only about three generations back since quarantines were common in the US and people complied. Families quarantined their own sick members.
But now some Americans are so spoiled and irresponsible that they act like a three week quarantine is a five year prison sentence. Even more amazing that several supposedly trained health care workers have led the way in violating quarantines and common sense.
“Asymptomatic health care workers such as Hickox are not contagious, and they should be highly motivated to comply with monitoring protocols.”
You mean like the doc in NYC who lied about his activities? Or, maybe the nurse in Maine who says she doesn’t have to comply with protocols.
You see this health care professionals think they know all.
There was a half-decent science fiction movie years ago, called Lifeforce (1985), in which London, England, had been overrun with “life force” consuming “vampires”.
But it had been discovered that when a person was consumed and died, after a given length of time, they would reanimate from a dessicated corpse and become a vampire themselves, desperate to consume the life force of others. If they couldn’t feed, they would disintegrate to dust.
Well, at one point, there was a military compound set up outside of London, and anyone who tried to get in was put in a compound under armed guard, to wait out the incubation period.
And in all fairness, this was an accurate representation of the seriousness of quarantine. As long as the quarantine is in effect, no one leaves the quarantine area *or they are shot*.
This is the old rule. And it is a good one. And it still applies today.
Few people have ever seen a real, lethal epidemic. But only a fool ignores that they exist. This being said this whiny nurse should be told that unless they obey the quarantine, they are subject to imprisonment, and if they flee, they can be shot on site as a public menace no different from a rabid dog.
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ONE patient is all it takes to shut down a hospital. Look at Bellevue: http://patdollard.com/2014/10/nys-bellevue-hospital-so-consumed-with-ebola-care-forced-to-transfer-icu-patients-to-other-hospital/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
And the mainstream media talk about this like it’s a problem with “for-profit medical care.” Bad hospital. Bad! Bad! You don’t want to take care of Ebola-infected patients because of the cost.
It is costing a million dollars to take care of ONE single patient.
AND they close the ICU because THAT’s where they’re taking the critical care staff from.
Leave them in freaking Africa. Take them to an island somewhere en route, quarantine them for 42 days (what the World Health Organization says is the 90th percentile of incubation time, NOT the 21 days everyone keeps quoting).
But bring them to America? Are you suicidal? Crazy? Stupid? Evil? Or all the above - an Obama believer?
I went to the VA yesterday to see my dentist.
I checked in at a kiosk in the main lobby. Rode the elevator to the fifth floor.
Then I checked in at the nurses’ station and waited 15 minutes until I was called by the hygienist.
Once in the dentists’ chair, she asked me, “Have you been outside of the country in the past 30 days?”
I laughed at her and said, “Isn’t that something that should have been asked as soon as I came through the door downstairs, a half hour ago?”
That is exactly how this government is handling this Ebola problem.
Protect your family and yourself! Vote the rats out of office.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...