Mayor de Blasio tells New Yorkers not to panic. Cuomo says Ebola is under control

[USincognito]

Really? No problem going face to face with one of the deadliest viruses in the history of mankind but a 21 day isolation afterwards is going to discourage you from going in the first place? What convoluted thinking.

Ummm, actual people associated with MSF are saying that would be the case.
Ebola: Quarantine Can Undermine Efforts to Curb Epidemic | MSF USA

International MSF staff members commit to burdensome four-to-six week assignments in the Ebola-affected countries. The risk of being quarantined for 21 days upon completion of their work has already prompted some people to reduce their length of time in the field. Others will be less inclined to volunteer in the first place. This will present significant operational disruptions at the field level for MSF and other organizations, and lead to an overall shortage of desperately needed health workers, precisely when the Ebola outbreak is as out of control as ever.​

But what does Doctors Without Borders know. Some Dude On The Internet says it's "convoluted thinking".

 

[DaisyDay]

Really? No problem going face to face with one of the deadliest viruses in the history of mankind but a 21 day isolation afterwards is going to discourage you from going in the first place?

The 21 day isolation may not discourage you from going in the first place, but it may discourage you from disclosing where you were and what you were doing and from cooperating with idiot authority figures who seem to care more about appearances than actualities.

What convoluted thinking.

I don't think "convoluted" is the right word.

 

[mickyd1961]

The 21 day isolation may not discourage you from going in the first place, but it may discourage you from disclosing where you were and what you were doing and from cooperating with idiot authority figures who seem to care more about appearances than actualities.

I don't think "convoluted" is the right word.

How about the words "selfish" and "culpable"?

 

[mickyd1961]

Saw Governor Christie interviewed on NBC. God bless the man he's standing by his guns with evidence to support his decision. 6 other states are joining the quarantine including the US Military.

 

[OlduvaiGeorge]

Saw Governor Christie interviewed on NBC. God bless the man he's standing by his guns with evidence to support his decision. 6 other states are joining the quarantine including the US Military.

Add violating that woman's due process rights to the list of charges against Christie. Moving on.

 

[mickyd1961]

Evidently you are unfamiliar with the historical precedents concerning quarantine orders.

 

[wing2000]

How about the words "selfish" and "culpable"?

Words that describe those who are seeking political gain by attacking the very health care providers and medical experts we need to contain Ebola in the three most impacted countries.

 

[wing2000]

Evidently you are unfamiliar with the historical precedents concerning quarantine orders.

I am and we live in 2014.

 

[mickyd1961]

Human beings are just as vulnerable today as they were 2 hundred years ago.

 

[Joykins]

Who of us is voluntarily going to take an Ebola vaccine?

There are plenty of volunteers for the Phase I human trials now.

Phase II trials will be in people at risk of infection with Ebola, I think these people are going to be very open to taking the vaccine.

 

[mickyd1961]

I am and we live in 2014.

If you are putting your faith in medical science then just remember how many people doctors kill ever year. How about the 100,000 people who die from adverse drug reactions in the US every year? Medical Science is no panacea.

 

[mickyd1961]

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/Developmen...ources/DrugInteractionsLabeling/ucm114848.htm

 

[NightHawkeye]

The nurse who protested being quarantined in New Jersey is now quarantined in Maine for three weeks: Ebola nurse quarantined in Maine | Associated Press

FORT KENT, Maine (AP) -- A nurse who was confined against her will at a hospital in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is in Maine, where state officials said she's agreed to be quarantined, officials said Tuesday.​

After continued protests from the nurse the state said that she was under "voluntary quarantine", whatever that may mean ... with her boyfriend apparently. Life is good.

 

[wing2000]

If you are putting your faith in medical science then just remember how many people doctors kill ever year. How about the 100,000 people who die from adverse drug reactions in the US every year? Medical Science is no panacea.

I never said it was.

Over 200 people die every single day in our hospitals from infections...which begs the question, why are you over-reacting to a virus that has killed one out of nine patients who have been treated to date in the U.S.?

 

[trunks2k]

I never said it was.

Over 200 people die every single day in our hospitals from infections...which begs the question, why are you over-reacting to a virus that has killed one out of nine patients who have been treated to date in the U.S.?

Clarification: one out of the nine. "One out of nine" implies an actual fatality rate of just over 10%. There haven't been nearly enough cases treated in the US to judge what the rate would be here.

 

[mickyd1961]

Either way it's a huge monetary win for the vultures in the medical industry.

 

[mickyd1961]

Any Christian Scientists in the house?

 

[Belk]

Either way it's a huge monetary win for the vultures in the medical industry.

Yes. Those horrible people who saved my life. :/

 

[CryOfALion]

Any Christian Scientists in the house?

Do you mean believers who happen to be mathematicians/scientists, or the alleged faith "Christian Science?"

 

[mickyd1961]

I was referring to Mary Baker Eddy.