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Ebola confirmed in the US

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I anticipate, like with everything in the news, that we will be saturated with these reports for a time being. At some point we will stop hearing about them all together as everyone calms down or a new hot topic story takes over the lead.
 
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buckeyebri said:
and they will enforce this how....especially now that we are how many days past the entry into the room...
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Yeah they can't enforce it. That's why it's ridiculous. They couldn't stop the bubonic plague and that was at a time when martial law was an every day thing and the fastest form of travel was a couple months from one side to another. They can make all kinds of bans and rules, but not everyone will abide, and it only takes a few.

Pandemics, like super volcanos and meteorites, are inevitable.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
So it appears Texas isn't scared of imposing a travel ban
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That should work well. I mean, aside from the fact there are now hosts or known potential hosts that are currently housed in or passed through Dallas, Omaha, Cleveland, Washington, Atlanta, and a cruise liner off the coast of Belize, at least officials in Texas aren't afraid to do what a lot of people have wanted from the start, and that's say, "Pretty please, with sugar on top, don't travel for a month."
 
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BUCKYLE said:
Yeah they can't enforce it. That's why it's ridiculous. They couldn't stop the bubonic plague and that was at a time when martial law was an every day thing and the fastest form of travel was a couple months from one side to another. They can make all kinds of bans and rules, but not everyone will abide, and it only takes a few.

Pandemics, like super volcanos and meteorites, are inevitable.
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Plane's filled with people from Liberia en route to New York, on the other hand, are totally preventable.

And, the Bubonic Plague is not spread by human to human contact. Fleas carry it, as do animals - namely rats which were common in the world where black death took hold. So, that's how it spread when it took people weren't flying across seas in huge metal tubes fueled by dead dinosaurs.
 
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The point being, unless we return to a time where global travel is non-existent, a global pandemic is inevitable. Liberians will escape, even if quarantined by military force, and some of them will be infected.

Some people remind me of a Simpson's episode. "I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as Man vs Nature: The Road to Victory"

Doesn't mean we can't try, but putting a lockdown on travel isn't enforceable, and will cost billions.
 
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Also, if you don't like the black death example, there's the Spanish flu. It wasn't spread by fleas.

Also, the problem with the plague wasn't just the fleas. It was also because the rat population exploded because superstition ruled and idiots decimated the cat population.
 
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Bleed S & G said:
Plane's filled with people from Liberia en route to New York, on the other hand, are totally preventable.

And, the Bubonic Plague is not spread by human to human contact. Fleas carry it, as do animals - namely rats which were common in the world where black death took hold. So, that's how it spread when it took people weren't flying across seas in huge metal tubes fueled by dead dinosaurs.
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The Plague has been in the US literally forever. Carried most notably by prairie dogs. Every year there are cases of it in the southwest. A human spreads Plague by carrying fleas from a pet.
 
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It gets down to the basic question of as a Christian nation, can we get beyond our politics to care about non-white people in other countries?
Do we care if they die from disease and starvation?
As a Christian nation the answer should be obvious.
Yes we should. Because we know in our hearts it's the "right thing to do".
For too long we have found it easy to do military action in other countries.
So, why do we struggle with humanitarian efforts? When we know it's in our core values?
 
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Bucklion said:
Kind of like the "anthrax in the mailroom" after 9/11
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I lived in Oxford ,CT during that little episode. We had an elderly woman die from anthrax on a letter she was "unlucky" to get.
I don't find that worthy of your sarcasm. I knew pretty much everyone but this elderly lady. I knew the postal workers personally. The "post office" was literally our barbershop! Saturday mornings town council met in the local diner. It pisses me off that some idiot did this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22ANTH.html
 
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