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OK, bromides may be uncalled for. However, declaring a "State of Emergency" is hyperbolic. There have been cases of Ebola in the UK and France, which were con

by pcrh 12y ago

OK, bromides may be uncalled for. However, declaring a "State of Emergency" is hyperbolic. There have been cases of Ebola in the UK and France, which were contained without causing the national panic that appears to have gripped the US. One concern I have is that if this panic is allowed to gain enough political headway it will lead to expensive, oppressive and ineffective policy decisions, mirroring those that created the TSA.

hga 12y ago
Not Duncan "Ebola Tourist" cases. In those two countries, plus Norway and Spain, they are all medevacs, along with 4 of the US cases. I.e. the hospitals knew ahead of time they'd be receiving a case and the people were sent to specialist wards. And yet Spain's isolation failed, perhaps because the government closed the infectious disease ward some months earlier, and only restarted it on an emergency basis when the first missionary became sick. All we know is that their PPE protocols were not up to snuff if the stories about closing gaps with adhesive tape were correct. I also just notice on Wikipedia as of today there's a nurse who treated the French patient who "developed a high fever and was transported to the same hospital for treatment for suspected Ebola" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa#Countries_with_medically_evacuated_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_A...). "expensive, oppressive and ineffective policy decisions" Specifically what? I'm not aware of any that would be "ineffective", or ones that would necessarily be "expensive" to the US. This is of course assuming "panic" enhanced by more Dallas failures, or other imports from West Africa does not grow massively. How many Americans have to get and die of Ebola before "oppressive" policy decisions happen---as if the current clowns running the show at the national level would continence them?
- pcrh 12y ago
  Have you thought about the children yet? An isolation ward for one or two patients is easy to set up. It takes only a few hours, and doesn't require the President's intervention. Edit: The article linked to by the OP shows how Ebola was contained in Nigeria, a place with many fewer resources in this area than the US.

by pcrh 12y ago

hga 12y ago

Not Duncan "Ebola Tourist" cases. In those two countries, plus Norway and Spain, they are all medevacs, along with 4 of the US cases. I.e. the hospitals knew ahead of time they'd be receiving a case and the people were sent to specialist wards. And yet Spain's isolation failed, perhaps because the government closed the infectious disease ward some months earlier, and only restarted it on an emergency basis when the first missionary became sick. All we know is that their PPE protocols were not up to snuff if the stories about closing gaps with adhesive tape were correct. I also just notice on Wikipedia as of today there's a nurse who treated the French patient who "developed a high fever and was transported to the same hospital for treatment for suspected Ebola" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa#Countries_with_medically_evacuated_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_A...). "expensive, oppressive and ineffective policy decisions" Specifically what? I'm not aware of any that would be "ineffective", or ones that would necessarily be "expensive" to the US. This is of course assuming "panic" enhanced by more Dallas failures, or other imports from West Africa does not grow massively. How many Americans have to get and die of Ebola before "oppressive" policy decisions happen---as if the current clowns running the show at the national level would continence them?

pcrh 12y ago
Have you thought about the children yet? An isolation ward for one or two patients is easy to set up. It takes only a few hours, and doesn't require the President's intervention. Edit: The article linked to by the OP shows how Ebola was contained in Nigeria, a place with many fewer resources in this area than the US.