Ebola scaremongering?

Lol fair enough :).

To be fair if you read the papers and believe it without doing your own research then it's easy enough to come to that conclusion.
 
Mynight said:
Lol fair enough :).

To be fair if you read the papers and believe it without doing your own research then it's easy enough to come to that conclusion.
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I would be a lot more worried about my government if they authorised a non-discriminatory airstrike on an area full of foreign health workers and sick and healthy, innocent people.
 
robfosters said:
She's a nice girl normally, but now and again, she shows the educational level of a mentally retarded Waynetta Slob.
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Out of interest, given that bombing is out, and actually closing borders or travel between towns and affected places and those which are not seems to be completely impossible for anyone to conscious at this time, how would you stop Ebola?

Maybe the countries affected are taking more steps than they appear to be, but it seems little to nothing is being down to actually stop spread, which seems insane given that treatment currently is basically impossible.
 
robfosters said:
I would be a lot more worried about my government if they authorised a non-discriminatory airstrike on an area full of foreign health workers and sick and healthy, innocent people.
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I don't think we could ever logically hit that stage.

Unfortunately I've read if we close the borders their economy tanks(more important than lives to some). Also making it much harder to provide any form of treatment.

Quarantine could never be effective without some form of armed guards with carte blanche.

Side note: can we get the thread titled changed to "Ebola OMFG" :D
 
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I'm sure we can think of better ways of stopping an epidemic than bombing Liberia, particularly when it has already left the country.

I'm not going to propose a solution, I'm not a WHO health expert, but the idea of airstrikes is beyond preposterous.
 
Xordium said:
We don't need to think of better ways we just have to do stuff properly eg Nigeria.
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From what I can tell, it would appear we are not doing anything at all thus far. a few checks if people wish at airports aside, we are taking no preventative measure to stop spread into the nation, which is and should be the priority.

If it spreads to India, gives travel, it might be too late for us to start taking steps then.
 
If this becomes serious nobody is going to give a **** about this economy.. I don't know why everyone keeps mentioning it, as if they are politicians.
 
Well, if worst case scenarios prove true... there won't be much of an economy to worry about.

So I'm not worried about the economy at all.
 
Mynight said:
No maybe not but the survivors/uninfected would.

Not only politicians care about the economy lol.
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Well I can tell you now, if this goes viral you won't have a job, your house price wont keep going and you won't have a pension if you survive.

The last two are both aren't 'real' anyway so lets just say you won't have a job!
 
matt_fsr said:
Well, if worst case scenarios prove true... there won't be much of an economy to worry about.

So I'm not worried about the economy at all.
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That's a bit odd. Even if you think there's no risk of the virus spreading, not to care about the serious (and already starting) economic issues is crazy. The economic issues could be worse than the virus, all it takes is for enough folks to get scared
 
zegna said:
If this becomes serious nobody is going to give a **** about this economy.. I don't know why everyone keeps mentioning it, as if they are politicians.
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If it becomes serious a lot of people will struggle with adapting to the reality of it and how values that have been conditioned into them since birth can suddenly become utterly meaningless.
 
Just found a really weird typo/error on BBC news :p

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Hikari Kisugi said:
From what I can tell, it would appear we are not doing anything at all thus far. a few checks if people wish at airports aside, we are taking no preventative measure to stop spread into the nation, which is and should be the priority.

If it spreads to India, gives travel, it might be too late for us to start taking steps then.
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We aren't doing anything because we don't have it over here but there are plans for everything put into place and with the patient we did receive we did things by the book. If we get a case here then we have demonstrated with SARS good epidemiological work and tracing and I feel this would be no different.

As to whether such plans would work then of course they would but there would be losses of course. Most of these would be the lesser skilled healthworkers that the current administration seemed intent to employ to drive down costs.

And yes if this gets to India and Pakistan or is deliberately introduced then things will get very different. But we have to look at what Nigeria did - they did have transmission but it was kept to low levels. I am confident we would do the same. I think things have been highlighted with the US mishandling and hopefully lessons learned. I feel this is quite manageable whilst you have a number of patients that can be cared for by suitable staff. When that threshold is breached you see a surge when untrained/inexperienced staff mishandle cases after that you will then see a surge in skilluptake and a plateau. These are not difficult skills to learn but exacting in process and could be gained by theatre staff quite quickly - your average ward nurse or doctor though may not fair so well.

Have you ever done work abroad because I had an email yesterday and so did my wife. They are struggling to get enough staff and are putting the feelers out.
 
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