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"I really don't have any more confidence because the CDC has been saying "it will be fine" than I did when the Japanese officials said Fukushima would be fine."
by rsync 12y ago
"I really don't have any more confidence because the CDC has been saying "it will be fine" than I did when the Japanese officials said Fukushima would be fine."
As someone who has a small bit of background understanding of Ebola (that is, I read The Hot Zone, and then some follow-up texts related to it) and as someone who has an appreciation for the role that air travel would play in a pandemic, the lack of a proper travel quarantine procedure out of the affected west african countries is stupefying.
It is beyond all understanding that there is not a 21 day monitoring/quarantine period enforced for air travel out of these three affected countries.
EDIT: I have created this change.org petition which suggests what are, in my opinion, common sense travel guidelines that would avert a possible pandemic:
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-and-u-s-senate-and-u-s-house-of-representatives-institute-quarantine-procedures-for-travel-out-of-countries-with-ebola-outbreaks https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-and-u-s-senate-and-u-s...