So what, you're going to pay to have border staff sit around twiddling their thumbs for years during a "normal situation"? Or you're plan is to recruit and train however many you need when something like Ebola kicks off?
Ebola scaremongering?
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So what, you're going to pay to have border staff sit around twiddling their thumbs for years during a "normal situation"? Or you're plan is to recruit and train however many you need when something like Ebola kicks off?
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It would have spread regardless, it's not like people never went to West Africa before this...
Also, it's kinda hard to just stay home in a country that doesn't have Tesco Home Delivery, reliable electricity and water supplies and a welfare system.
As much as I suck for thinking / or even saying this, I can't help think this is natures cull.
And for the life of me, I can't help think that the modern western countries sitting at the sidelines (instead of helping) are the one's who know the potential here.
Border patrols mean jack all when we can't even stop immigrants coming in on the underside of caravans or lorries. As an island, we either protect ourselves completely, or we step up the methods for detection and quarantine
And for the life of me, I can't help think that the modern western countries sitting at the sidelines (instead of helping) are the one's who know the potential here.
Border patrols mean jack all when we can't even stop immigrants coming in on the underside of caravans or lorries. As an island, we either protect ourselves completely, or we step up the methods for detection and quarantine
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Because they are a tad uneducated and it's easy to say don't touch someone who is ill or dead but not so easy if it's your own.
As I am not a health worker in an infectious diseases ward, then no, I'm not worried. I am much more likely to die on my daily commute and I don't worry about that either.
No, for two main reasons.
The first is that I have absolutely no control over it. I cannot control the response to, or the spread of, ebola. Therefore worrying about it is pretty pointless.
The second, and more important one, is that I do not believe we are going to be in a pandemic situation due to the nature of the disease. To catch it you need to spend some time with a person that is dying from or has recently died from ebola.
look, it spreads only through bodily fluids, which is why in Africa it's so easy to pass on. Hell, most of the "drinking water" over there contains other peoples bodily fluids.
It will take a lot for a huge EU breakdown and we will simply be told to stay at home and if we present, go here, or stay here. By Jan, this is likely to have all blown over, or be under control
It will take a lot for a huge EU breakdown and we will simply be told to stay at home and if we present, go here, or stay here. By Jan, this is likely to have all blown over, or be under control
Excactly. By Jan the media will have siezed on the next great threat to humanity which they will use to sell papers, get air time on telly with.
To be fair, the Simpsons episode is a real mystery, I mean in all honesty what is more likely, that a cartoon from 1997 correctly predicted the 2014 outbreak seventeen years later? Or the comical notion that it could be some kind of "reference" to the 1995 outbreak which was still in the news but old enough to poke fun at?
Hope you're right. However, the WHO are projecting a million+ cases by January unless commensurate interventions take place and they aren't.
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What would you rather hear in the news? This is pretty major - more so than celebrity leaked photos or what footballer failed to do what he was paid for...
The question that we should be asking is if it did get a foothold then would the government seriously expect nurses to turn up to deal with something they haven't the ability to deal with when the same administration can't be bothered to give them a 1% pay increase.
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The same WHO that predicted global terror caused by swine flu. What an absolute joke that was.
The truth is - it kills average 50% - hardly anywhere near the 95% originally quoted.
Of those 50 or so percent that have died, most were malnourished, weak and had little access to medical facilities or water - essential for curing it.
I can take a bet we will have a working vaccine within 6 months - probably by Christmas in fact.
It will be in the drugs companies best interest to get it out there and working - as it's only in the last few months they have really been concerned about getting a vaccine for it now that the media hype has created yet another grim reaper condition. Recently , they were too busy developing drugs needed for long term conditions (where most of their profit comes from) to consider making a vaccine for such an uncommon virus.
And incidentally - the seasonal flu has killed loads more people in the same timeframe - and spreads a lot more easily (the ebola virus is weak, fragile and transmits very inefficiently) - do you hear that on the news ?
The truth is - it kills average 50% - hardly anywhere near the 95% originally quoted.
Of those 50 or so percent that have died, most were malnourished, weak and had little access to medical facilities or water - essential for curing it.
I can take a bet we will have a working vaccine within 6 months - probably by Christmas in fact.
It will be in the drugs companies best interest to get it out there and working - as it's only in the last few months they have really been concerned about getting a vaccine for it now that the media hype has created yet another grim reaper condition. Recently , they were too busy developing drugs needed for long term conditions (where most of their profit comes from) to consider making a vaccine for such an uncommon virus.
And incidentally - the seasonal flu has killed loads more people in the same timeframe - and spreads a lot more easily (the ebola virus is weak, fragile and transmits very inefficiently) - do you hear that on the news ?
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Considering it was scoring 90% as recently as 2003 I would say this is a testament to medical progress
Care to link to this truth. The experts seem to disagree with you.