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2014-08-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ebola wrap: bodies left in streets, sick turned away, incompetence and more

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Posted by anon1 2014-08-04 04:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "Manila last month imposed a ban on travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the world's worst ever outbreak of the tropical virus, while the health ministry announced extra measures today."

A blatantly racist and apartheid approach. Common sense and prudent decision making have no place in a multicultural environment. Yet another argument for the elimination of international borders.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-04 04:54|| 2014-08-04 04:54|| Front Page Top

#2 haha I particularly like your use of the word Multicultural

Posted by anon1 2014-08-04 06:20|| 2014-08-04 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 There are the TV doctors who seem to dismiss and underplay the ebola threat. It does not seem like that much is known about the virus at this stage.

The Brits reported a woman from Sierra Leone who arrived at Gatwick and died. The symptoms sound a lot like ebola despite some reports that have assured us that it was not ebola. Passenger at Gatwick dies. and
Reported suspected vectors of transmission across species in 2012.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-04 08:02|| 2014-08-04 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I realize that doctors and health organizations are trying to quell panic and prevent people from doing dumb things. On the other hand, consider what an abortion Obamacare has been.

I can recall as a child when public health officials quarantined homes in the 1940s for such things as diphtheria, small pox, measles, chickpox, whooping cough. Many of these diseases have been all but eliminated because of vaccinations but quarantine did seem to prevent the spread of diseases at the time.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-04 08:09|| 2014-08-04 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder WHO will be responsible if it does break out? WHO could guess? Interesting on quarantine. Daniel Defoe writes that in 1666 the City of London put locks on people's front doors if even 1 person in the house had plague.

The healthy were locked up with the sick to stop them spreading it elsewhere.

They were shut in. A guard was posted outside. If the family wanted food they had to ask the guard to go get it.

Of course they worked out devious ways to escape!

Posted by anon1 2014-08-04 09:55|| 2014-08-04 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 One par stands out for me:

"A few of the corpses were left floating in body bags in pools of water, which led to complaints from the residents."

this is Monrovia, capital of Liberia. And yet it is Guinea that Emirates has stopped flying to.

Posted by anon1 2014-08-04 09:56|| 2014-08-04 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 NB - when the first round of the Black Death hit Europe, the authorities in Milan sealed in the occupants of homes when it appeared among the residents. Milan is reported to be among the few islands of population that avoided the vast kill off the rest of the continent experienced.

It'll be interesting to see the 'science is settled' ideological socialist crowd fight between 'women and children hurt worse faction' vs the 'greatest good for the greatest number' faction.

As late as the 60s the Public Health authorities had greater powers to remove people that posed a danger through communicable diseases from the public and place in isolation than Law Enforcement (72 hour hold) through isolation protocols. That was before HIV gained constitutional rights.

Posted by Procopuis2k 2014-08-04 11:10|| 2014-08-04 11:10|| Front Page Top

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