Saturday, October 4, 2014
Airports are checking passengers for fevers before they can board a flight. Great. I guess this can help to assure that no one on the flight is exposed to someone with ebola in the contagious stage. But it does nothing to prevent someone with ebola in the not-yet contagious stage from traveling anywhere they want. So it does nothing to stop ebola from spreading around the world.
I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense.
And then there was the guy who thew up on a plane arriving at Newark from Brussels. He was taken off the plane by people in full protective gear, the other passengers were held on the plane for a while, and then given handouts of what to do if they start showing ebola symptoms and they were let go, BEFORE the sick guy tested negative for ebola. [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/04/port-authority-cdc-investigating-sick-passenger-for-possible-ebola-at-newark-airport/]
I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense.
Some folks are saying that anyone coming from a country with ebola cases should be quarantined for three weeks after arrival somewhere else. Well, we, the US, have at least one and possibly more ebola cases here. So should Americans be quarantined for three weeks if they travel? Should Arizona close their borders to Texans?
This is scary. There's an attitude like "No big deal. Even if a few cases show up, we can simply isolate those people and stop it in its tracks." Duh. The big problem in west Africa is that people are uneducated, not trusting the government and medical folks, and hiding sick relatives away.
Lack of education, distrust of government, distrust of doctors ("death panels", anyone?), distrust of "the system" --- yeah, sure, we don't have any of that here....
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The other thing that bothers me is that in the cases of Americans and other westerners who have been diagnosed, nobody ever talks about HOW they got it. Ok, the doctors and nurses, I can see that they had a higher chance of exposure, but they know how to protect themselves. They know what to do and what not to do. They are completely suited up and have decontamination procedures and know the punishment for screwing up. So what went wrong? And the reporters and that cameraman, how?
Why aren't they looking into that? Maybe it's not as easy to avoid as they want us to believe?
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"The ability we value
most is plausible deniability."
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Airports are checking passengers for fevers before they can board a flight. Great. I guess this can help to assure that no one on the flight is exposed to someone with ebola in the contagious stage. But it does nothing to prevent someone with ebola in the not-yet contagious stage from traveling anywhere they want. So it does nothing to stop ebola from spreading around the world.
I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense.
And then there was the guy who thew up on a plane arriving at Newark from Brussels. He was taken off the plane by people in full protective gear, the other passengers were held on the plane for a while, and then given handouts of what to do if they start showing ebola symptoms and they were let go, BEFORE the sick guy tested negative for ebola. [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/04/port-authority-cdc-investigating-sick-passenger-for-possible-ebola-at-newark-airport/]
I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense.
Some folks are saying that anyone coming from a country with ebola cases should be quarantined for three weeks after arrival somewhere else. Well, we, the US, have at least one and possibly more ebola cases here. So should Americans be quarantined for three weeks if they travel? Should Arizona close their borders to Texans?
This is scary. There's an attitude like "No big deal. Even if a few cases show up, we can simply isolate those people and stop it in its tracks." Duh. The big problem in west Africa is that people are uneducated, not trusting the government and medical folks, and hiding sick relatives away.
Lack of education, distrust of government, distrust of doctors ("death panels", anyone?), distrust of "the system" --- yeah, sure, we don't have any of that here....
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The other thing that bothers me is that in the cases of Americans and other westerners who have been diagnosed, nobody ever talks about HOW they got it. Ok, the doctors and nurses, I can see that they had a higher chance of exposure, but they know how to protect themselves. They know what to do and what not to do. They are completely suited up and have decontamination procedures and know the punishment for screwing up. So what went wrong? And the reporters and that cameraman, how?
Why aren't they looking into that? Maybe it's not as easy to avoid as they want us to believe?
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1 comment:
The Dallas guy, like the doctors, nurses someone with Ebola. His landlords child? I think.
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