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To: exDemMom
I am genuinely puzzled about what people expect the CDC to say.

I expect them to treat this disease as if it could kill millions of Americans if it gets over here. You don't let anyone into this country who has been in any of these countries in the last 30 days. This is how epidemics are supposed to be handled. Read your history. Quarantines and border control have been standard tools since the beginning of Civilization.

Instead we have a CDC that is more interested in public relations than disease control. If ever Political Correctness is going to kill us, it is going to be because we treat deadly diseases as if they have more rights than American Citizens.

19 posted on 10/06/2014 6:53:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: P-Marlowe
I expect them to treat this disease as if it could kill millions of Americans if it gets over here. You don't let anyone into this country who has been in any of these countries in the last 30 days. This is how epidemics are supposed to be handled. Read your history. Quarantines and border control have been standard tools since the beginning of Civilization.

I know of no disease that could kill millions of Americans if it were to get over here. All of the diseases that have those kinds of fatality rates--malaria, yellow fever, plague--have either been eliminated in the US, or good effective vaccines or antibiotics have been invented.

Ebola is not contagious until symptoms appear. Even then, it is only contagious through direct or close contact (prolonged exposure within three feet of sick person). Since it is so hard for Ebola to spread, its not going to infect millions of people.

Heck, even in west Africa, where healthcare systems are almost non-existent, people do not believe Ebola exists, people prepare corpses for burial by washing them with their bare hands, and Ebola has been described as spreading "out of control", there have only been 7,700 cases since December. There are about 21 million people living in the three countries affected--that means that even where Ebola is rampant and conditions favor its spread, there is a less than 0.04% chance of getting Ebola. In the US, where conditions favorable to the spread of Ebola do not exist, the chance of getting Ebola is non-existent (unless you are a family member of the man who recently traveled from Liberia).

20 posted on 10/06/2014 7:13:12 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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