Posted on Oct 22, 2014
Is the EBOLA scare in the USA real or is it overblown?
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Yesterday, October 21, 2014, in Stokes County, NC, an Assistant Principal who had taken a Mission Trip to South Africa was told to stay home and away from school for 21 days so that there would be no risk of exposing the staff or students at school to EBOLA from the visit to Africa. South Africa is over 5,000 miles away from where the infected areas of Africa are. According to the story that is further away than the distance from NC to Hawaii, yet people are afraid of contracting EBOLA from this person.
Is this a reasonable fear? Should anyone traveling from anywhere in Africa be quarantined for 21 days? Is this overreaction due to ignorance of geography? Or is there something else going on, what is your reaction to this story?
Is this a reasonable fear? Should anyone traveling from anywhere in Africa be quarantined for 21 days? Is this overreaction due to ignorance of geography? Or is there something else going on, what is your reaction to this story?
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PO3 (Join to see)
It is definitely real, but people have definitely blown it way out of proportion...
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Well if these dumb-ass doctors who can't observe a 21 day quarantine would stop f--king around we may keep this thing under control. That and if we'd stop opening up every state to caring for Ebola victims. This whole situation is a runaway white elephant that everyone doesn't seem to really want to do anything about. CONTAINMENT, ISOLATION, DECONTAMINATION, QUARENTINE, STERILE ENVIRONMENT, PROPER DISROBING - I know most of us all learned these concepts at NBC training.
Oh yeah, and now we have an Ebola czar - yippie!
Oh yeah, and now we have an Ebola czar - yippie!
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SSG (Join to see)
MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca, SSgt (Join to see), CPT Michael Barden, and SSG Laureano Pabon, this whole thing stinks to high heaven of an insidious nature. Ebola Czar??? What the hell is that and why is a lawyer, who has ZERO Ebola experience and ZERO medical training, selected to fill that position? Totally ridiculous. Almost as if certain people really wish to infect the country. SMH!!!
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SGT (Join to see)
That same nurse that is claiming she has been held prisoner would be the first one to complain if another person wasn't held to the 21 day quarantine. If they can not get this under control and quit worrying about what others think of us than it is going to get bad.
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SPC Korey R.
And the band plays on.... to a tune already loaded before we had a chance to pick it........It is being done by design as bad and sad as it may be for me to say it. The path of these Great United States has been set and determined by others with an outcome in mind and by design since the 50's. Personally I believe that this is a strain similar to Ebola and not the real Ebola which has been believed to be 99%+ lethal since it was first discovered. Hence the people "surviving". JMHO
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CMDCM Gene Treants - It is real and should be respected. If we let our guard down and then that school loses a few kids, all hell would break lose. I am annoyed that the administration and CDC would actually advocate carelessness over caution. I get the part about mass panic, but I am also aware that voting day is right around the corner. Debate on this has been severely curtailed at the behest of the government. I will not listen to any politician in this matter.
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CMDCM Gene Treants
I do not believe any child in this school is or ever was in danger. However I am very concerned about the lack of professional conduct by our medical personnel returning from West Africa after caring for Ebola patients there.
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CMDCM Gene Treants
As I said CPT Michael Barden, they, well some of them, seem to be more a part of the problem then the solution. I think all of us have a basic human right to not live in fear of this attitude of Me First.
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