Ebola and the New Isolationism

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Interesting article about Ebola and the new isolationism surrounding it...http://time.com/3475106/ebola-country-borders-new-isolationsism/

Let’s close our borders to West Africans, some voices are saying. Better still, let’s close down Liberia and let no flights out. Or close U.S. airports to any incoming international flights. I’ve seen all those ideas offered in the flood of angry emails and tweets I’ve received recently on the subject of Ebola.

Isolation is, indisputably, an important part of the fight against Ebola virus disease. But the form of isolation that’s crucial and feasible is isolation of individual patients—keeping them apart from other people during the symptomatic, infectious stages of their illness.

This form of isolation depends on special wards and dedicated hospitals, containment suites where available, buildings converted to makeshift treatment centers, tents and plastic fences when nothing more can be had, plus the simple technique of barrier nursing, supported by tools such as masks, aprons, goggles, examination gloves, rubber boots, duct tape, bleach and plastic buckets to hold bleach solution for washing hands.

Ebola is not a preternatural miasma; it’s a fluid-borne virus that can be stopped. If a patient dies, the isolation continues: trained burial workers in full protective gear handle the corpse, and the bereaved family and friends say their goodbyes from a safe distance. That’s hard but necessary.
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I don't think that we need to stop people coming from Liberia..obviously these people have money and have probably been no where near the infected areas..

However, the poor people who live there..(Are not going to buy an air ticket to America!!)...They have to stay there and hope for the best...most of them in squalid conditions..no water..no soap..

It's only the arrogant health workers who arrive in America..who will!
 
When passengers from West Africa disembark at U.S. airports, there should be temperature screening by trained Customs and Border Protection agents and questions posed, with penalties for lying.
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Yeah, this works great. :rolleyes:

What about BEFORE they're symptomatic? You can stuff a 747 full of people without symptoms yet are still carrying the bug.

“Even if we tried to close the border,” Frieden said on Oct. 3, “it wouldn’t work.” In fact, it might backfire, he added, because isolating the affected countries would make helping them hard or impossible, which in turn would allow Ebola “to spread more there, and we’d be more likely to be exposed here.”
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Well, if the borders are closed how would it spread here?

Typical idiotic Liberal spew.
 
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