Ebola!

[Pompey1985]

What my grandad used to say... "What this world needs is a good war"

...We seem to be heading that way too (though when are we not?) - Hmmm, deep.

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[Number 1 Jasper]

[Weybridge]

I think this is how the world in its current form will end.
When you really think about it, most all current problems.....let me reel off a few......global climate, famine, overfishing, deforestation, poverty.....I could go on......but most all can be traced back to one issue.
There are too many of us.

It's not at all far fetched imo to forsee that some mad biology genius will come up with something to cull the population down a bit, a lot even.

Maybe, but then I would say the reverse is more likely. A mad biology genius will come up with a cure. Look at Lister, Jenner, Fleming etc. Crazy leftfield cures for global killers.

[The Cincinnati Kid]

Well, I was a little off in my prediction of 2 weeks. It took 2 months....but the first case has arrived here.

[Pompski!]

Ebola has hit the big time!

[Pompey Dave]

First case of contagion outside of Africa. A Spanish nurse who treated an infected Spanish priest who died nearly 2 weeks ago.

[The Cincinnati Kid]

We in the US are supposed to be ready and yet the poor dude in TX told the hospital he'd been in W. Africa.....and they sent him home with antibiotics!
Then when he goes back and the case is confirmed it takes days to even think about decontaminating the apt he was staying in.

There are 3 things you can count on with this sort of thing.

1: People in the front lines will not do their jobs properly. Apparently, airport staff are responsible for pulling aside suspected cases and in some cases, confirm fever by taking temperature.....really? So if you are Johnny Airport Dude and you see a sweaty sneezing dude, how excited are you about pulling that individual aside and getting in close contact?
2: Govt. is incompetent
3: Govt. will lie

We should not be letting anyone in with a passport or a visa stamp from those countries, or, if they do get in....compulsory quarantine... but I suppose that's not pc!
By the time that step becomes necessary it'll be too late.

[miltoninLA]

There are 3 things you can count on with this sort of thing.

1: People in the front lines will not do their jobs properly. Apparently, airport staff are responsible for pulling aside suspected cases and in some cases, confirm fever by taking temperature.....really? So if you are Johnny Airport Dude and you see a sweaty sneezing dude, how excited are you about pulling that individual aside and getting in close contact?
2: Govt. is incompetent
3: Govt. will lie.

Four things Cinci,
4. The NFL will feck it up.

[Purbrook Chimes]

We in the US are supposed to be ready and yet the poor dude in TX told the hospital he'd been in W. Africa.....and they sent him home with antibiotics!
Then when he goes back and the case is confirmed it takes days to even think about decontaminating the apt he was staying in.

There are 3 things you can count on with this sort of thing.

1: People in the front lines will not do their jobs properly. Apparently, airport staff are responsible for pulling aside suspected cases and in some cases, confirm fever by taking temperature.....really? So if you are Johnny Airport Dude and you see a sweaty sneezing dude, how excited are you about pulling that individual aside and getting in close contact?
2: Govt. is incompetent
3: Govt. will lie

We should not be letting anyone in with a passport or a visa stamp from those countries, or, if they do get in....compulsory quarantine... but I suppose that's not pc!
By the time that step becomes necessary it'll be too late.

apparently his family found him in bed very ill , called an ambulance and he vomited outside on the way to the ambulance, turns out he has ebola (surprise really when he'd just come back from Liberia) so what did the authorities do , they used the ambulance for another 2 days before it was cleaned, they cleaned up the street 3 days later and they quaranteened his family - where I hear you say , in the house he got sick in!!
Complete systemic failure, my guess is he doesn't have much money

[just blue]

US Ebola patient Thomas Duncan dies in hospital.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29543956

[past memories]

Someone tell me how sending 750 troops to help Ebola in Sierra Leone, will help. To me that`s 750 more ways to get it here.

[Pompey1985]

Can't help but think people should be screened on arrival certainly those who have visited the infected areas in the last 6 weeks or so.

[uspompeyfan]

Can't help but think people should be screened on arrival certainly those who have visited the infected areas in the last 6 weeks or so.

Reasonable, but doesn't incubation take up to three weeks to show signs?

Why not separate anyone arriving from the area, understand where they visited, and if it was an infected area and they have due cause, then isolate them for a period.

[uspompeyfan]

Someone tell me how sending 750 troops to help Ebola in Sierra Leone, will help. To me that`s 750 more ways to get it here.

The military can built camps and set up the logistical side very quickly and effectively. They can act as crowd control too. I didn't think they were on the front line and healing the infected ones.

[Pompey1985]

Can't help but think people should be screened on arrival certainly those who have visited the infected areas in the last 6 weeks or so.

Reasonable, but doesn't incubation take up to three weeks to show signs?

Why not separate anyone arriving from the area, understand where they visited, and if it was an infected area and they have due cause, then isolate them for a period.

That's true. Perhaps you have to isolate everyone travelignf from the infected region for 3 weeks. If nobody from that flight shows synpons there free to go.

I honestly think its getting to the stage it needs drastic action.

I think its the event that has concerned me most since I've been alive.