If you are incapable of articulating your point, that generally just means you are lying to yourself and trying to ascribe meaning in your own base emotions which, historically, is kindling for the flames of xenophobia.
Although I reject your premise I will narrow my statement. It isn't possible to explain it to CometsWin.
Explain it to anyone. Why should Louise Troh be deported and why by the looks of her will she never positively contribute anything to this country other than wasting our health care resources. Go. Here's her picture so you can see the looks of her.
Please read my post again. If you have any reply to that, or anything else I posted, or anything positive or informative to the thread, please post again.
If you look at how it played out, the quarantine was likely more about the apartment itself than the people in it. The woman who actually carried around the blanket that Duncan wore when he went to the hospital and who primarily cleaned the home afterwards did not live at this house. She was allowed to go home and was not put under any quarantine, though she was one of the "high risk" people that was evaluated daily. There was likely no one at higher risk than her, so from that decision, we can see that the concern was not really about people spreading it. Besides, the woman that actually lived at the house wasn't contagious when she left given that she didn't have symptoms. We don't know WHY she left the house, but since no one thought to provide them food until later on, there may have been some logical reasons for leaving.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Texas Deputy tests negative for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ebola?src=hash">#Ebola</a></p>— Lily Jang (@KHOULily) <a href="https://twitter.com/KHOULily/status/520309062584766464">October 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Nevermind just googled and he DOESNT have ebola http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dallas-sheriffs-deputy-shows-no-signs-of-ebola-hospital-says/
thanks. Some of the people in this thread are straight up fear mongeres should or probably work for the news
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Dallas official says fear over Ebola is driving patients to hospitals, leading to overcrowding. <a href="https://twitter.com/RonMott">@RonMott</a> reports now <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NBCNightlyNews?src=hash">#NBCNightlyNews</a></p>— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/520341246586675200">October 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Damn people are so stupid. Worrying about a disease they will very likely not contract versus worrying about dieting, exercising and preventing diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer that they are much much much more likely to develop.
edit: meh, didn't like that article so much. beneath Slate's standards, even though it was right. Delete.
A friend put it all in perspective for me . . .. . More people die from the FLU everyyear than total people to have died from Ebola It is sad and scary but . .. let's relax a little Rocket River
That's one way to look at it. Or, you could consider the very small footprint that all these deaths are occuring in. Liberia has had 2,200 deaths in a population of only 4.3m (in less than a year). That's 1 death per 2,000 people. In a 300m US population, that'd be 150,000 deaths. In the worst year in the last 40 in the US, 49,000 people died of flu. So, what Liberia is going through is far worse than any flu season of my lifetime and it hasn't even gotten as bad as it's going to get. Also, flu kills only 1 person for every 200,000 infected. Ebola is closer to 50%. The result is that people who die of flu are usually elderly people that are less likely to be working or raising children. While the loss of life is still unfortunate, losing people in the prime of their lives -- or people fearing death in the primes of their lives -- is much more disruptive to society. In Liberia, children are being orphaned, people won't work, won't go to market, won't travel. People my age in the US do not fear the flu, so the economy won't grind to a halt over it. Imagine if the US had ebola as bad as Liberia has it -- there'd be a worldwide depression. So, raw deaths aside, I don't think I get much comfort comparing to the flu.
I am not advocating ambivalence . . . I just think we need to settle down from Zombie Apocalypse 2014. These things need to be checked and tracked and monitor and if possible cured I don't think now is the time for full fledged panic Rocket River
IT'S ALWAYS TIME TO PANIC!!! :grin: Your right that in the US with this recent Dallas case, some people are getting a little too worked up about the danger to themselves. But, as for the disease in Africa, I think people here need to be a lot more worked up than they are. Sierra Leone and Liberia were already in bad shape, and ebola is just destroying them.
