tangent4ronpaul
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CDC news conference on now.
Arrived in US from Liberia with no symptoms, then got sick.
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Arrived in US from Liberia with no symptoms, then got sick.
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First US case of Ebola
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PaulConventionWV
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Everyone panic!!!!
not yet. Lets give it a few weeks.
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Don't worry, nothing to see here. We are so advanced and superior here in the US that no disease will ever spread!
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Political correctness has stopped any ideas of quarantine. We'll see what that will bring.
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About 1000 times more concerned that I am about ISIS.
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TSA would rather harass Americans.. than to maybe screen people who traveled from West Africa into USA. lol.
Lovely.. diseases from Africa and Central/South America. Anyone reading about the respiratory disease with polio like symptoms recently?
Lovely.. diseases from Africa and Central/South America. Anyone reading about the respiratory disease with polio like symptoms recently?
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It depends on where you live, what you do for a living, and what sort of people you interact with on a daily basis. I'm not terrified, but it has the potential to be a fairly serious issue for me, yeah.
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Good points. I do interact with people all over Arizona on a fairly regular basis, but I don't exchange bodily fluids with anyone but the Mrs...
I would think those in the healthcare industry would be most at-risk. Would that include you, Melissa?
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Good points. I do interact with people all over Arizona on a fairly regular basis, but I don't exchange bodily fluids with anyone but the Mrs...
I would think those in the healthcare industry would be most at-risk. Would that include you, Melissa?
That would include me, and by location and people I was thinking more directly of those in metro hospitals that see a great deal of lower income and undocumented patients. At those places, you see little blooms of things like H1N1, TB, and I would guess this would follow a similar vector. People in crowded waiting areas also don't always cover their mouths, and I will spare you what happens in the seats of shopping carts or in waiting room chairs when someone has a sick infant/toddler. Even then, it's a remote chance of catching anything, but as Brian pointed out it's 1000 times more likely than any boogey man danger from overseas terrorists.
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By whom how?
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I'm not unconcerned about it. I expect there will be deaths here in the U.S. from Ebola. It sucks to be those people and their loved ones. I don't expect it will wipe out half of the country, no. Just enough deaths to take away more civil liberties? sure.
Don't allow flights from Ebola countries. I don't know if they go direct, but anyway. Don't allow anyone who's passport has a stamp from an Ebola country into the US.
You'll never get everyone, but those should have been basic precautions.
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You aren't likely to die from Ebola. Sure, it's a deadly disease but with modern medical treatment (NOT available in Africa) the fatality rate can be reduced to somewhere around 50%. That's not good, but it's better than in Africa where it's about 90%. I for one do not want to get Ebola but we really need to put it into perspective. Only a small percentage of people will come down with it and half of them will survive. Perhaps the threat of Ebola spreading here will result in a cure. Only time will tell but please, don't panic...
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