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Won't happen, due to the "optics" of dooming regional populations (never mind compelling the unwilling to treat the infected). Horrible as Ebola is, and as bad
by ctdonath 12y ago
Won't happen, due to the "optics" of dooming regional populations (never mind compelling the unwilling to treat the infected). Horrible as Ebola is, and as bad as its spread will likely get, the areas requiring quarantine for effective results are still largely healthy (relatively speaking); guaranteeing their demise over the hope of survival won't be accepted by those needed to make it happen.
Just yesterday I had a conversation with someone lamenting how inhumane it was to enforce anything remotely resembling quarantine (say, refusing flights from a "hot" country) as being mean on an individual level, despite the statistical odds of an individual infection exploding into the demise of millions.
Hopefully this outbreak will, like most Ebola instances, burn itself out well before it goes outright pandemic. Prepare to self-quarantine if it doesn't; given what we saw in Dallas of late indicates governmental unwillingness to address such an outbreak in a realistic fashion.
- danieltillett 12y ago>Won't happen, due to the "optics" of dooming regional populations (never mind compelling the unwilling to treat the infected). I agree it won’t happen until too late. I think around January we will see total panic set in. >Hopefully this outbreak will, like most Ebola instances, burn itself out well before it goes outright pandemic. Past outbreaks have not burned themselves out - they were controlled by standard quarantine and hospitalization. Even this outbreak was being controlled until August when it overwhelmed the limited infection control measures in place. We need to stop pissing around and get serious - when you have an uncontrolled pandemic that is doubling in size every 20 days then you need to act big and act right now with everything you have at your disposal.