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[Closed] So Ebola...what do you reckon we should do about it?

tpbiker · 2014-10-09T13:16:21Z

Given the international response has so far been woefully inadequate, and we're now being told this is the worst health threat in last 30 years, what options are available? I must say I'm really struggling to see the logic in not quarantining all the countries affected, then putting up border restrictions in the UK to ensure noone gets in if they've been in one of the affected countries over within 21 days. If you are a health worker already out there or someone who actually lives here then put them in quarantine until they're clear. Granted this may be harsh but what other options do we have? I'm certainly not suggesting we just let poor folk of west africa rot. Once we've secured our own borders then developed nations need to throw everything possible at eradicating this within a confined border, including healthcare and economic relief. Its bad in 3 countries just now. Once it spreads widely beyond those borders surely we're all screwed? Clearly the experts don't appear to agree with this, they all appear to think only a few isolated cases will enter the country and will be dealt with with minimal risk to the rest of the population. I acknowledge folks are only contagious when ill,and its not airborne, but its not to far fetched to think someone may become ill at work,take the tube home etc etc so what am i missing?

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project

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Just imagine youre at a coach station, which was at the centre of an Ebola scare after a passenger arriving from London collapsed, after she returned from africa.

It sparked a dramatic mobilising of medical staff in protective clothing at the National Express station on Norton Street, off London Road.

Witnesses described panic among passengers as the coach arrived around 9.30pm on Wednesday with ambulance and police waiting.

Medical staff entered the coach in protective gear and removed the woman in a protective garment and face mask.

An onlooker said: “There were loads of people on the coach and people were running and panicking when they got off.

True or False.

Posted : 09/10/2014 9:21 pm

project

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Linky here.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-coach-station-centre-ebola-7912350

Hope the lady makes a good recovery.

Posted : 09/10/2014 9:22 pm

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