Posted on 05/12/2014 9:54:50 AM PDT by Kartographer
Health officials have confirmed a second U.S. case of a mysterious virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East.
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Strangely enough the very word "quarantine" comes from the French for 14 days.
But you knew that dincha? You found that out when you looked it up just like Kartographer suggested, right?
Seems many are more worried about the cause of a quarantine than the billions that would incur once such diseases get a foot hold here. And some are more worried about their own paycheck than if their choices would sicken or even kill others.
YA! Last year, I caught the worst cold of my life flying from Denver to Vegas. While waiting for the plane to finish loading, in comes a mom, dad, and a little boy who’s nose was red and dripping and coughing all over the place. The Mom had the same and the dad did not look any better. I looked at the guy next to me and told him we had better get ready to enjoy our next sickness.
Apparently logic isn't one of Public Health England's strong suit.
Govt contractors travel quite a bit to the middle east, as do our military. Lots of people need and want their jobs. If a govt contractor has to pay for this, then the cost gets added to the contract, guess who really pays?
Airline crews go there, would you expect them to be quarantined?
Who will pay for the quarantine of those that do not go there on business? What if they cannot pay?
Would there be facilities at each intnl airport for this quarantine?
Who would man these facilities?
Would you put people in special jails that refuse the quarantine?
How would it be enforced?
I think their dates were based on the (original) April 24th flight.
No, I looked up MERS
How much is those peoples health and life worth?
Same thing happen to me back in ‘04 flying from Atlanta to San Francisco. The guy behind use hacked and sneezed the whole flight. The flight back was agonizing as my ears where stopped up the whole way. Took almost a month to get over it. But then the guy made his business trip and didn’t lose any more though he sure cost me a bundle in medical bills.
Cost avoidance. Quarantine has got to be cheaper than the medical bills if that spreads.
So you come back give it to your kid and you kid goes to school and gives it to my grandchild and they die from it, but that’s OK because you didn’t lose any money? How big of you.
I hate flying for that reason alone. I’ll put up with all the rest, but assholes who get on board and spread their crap around are...
If a preventable epidemic sweeps through a country, who pays?
If your baby daughter dies of MERS because an infected person didn’t want to pay for a quarantine, is that an acceptable cost of doing business in the middle east in your mind?
AMEN!!
I think they are morons and the date doesn't matter because they are assuming they know all strains and mutations and other factors like someone being a carrier and exhibiting no symptoms (which has happened in many diseases.)
Assuming they know ALL the contacts an infected individual had going through a city and/or airport is what is known as a fail point. Someone could've contracted the disease from the known infected individual went home talked to a neighbor who talked to someone else etc. Then he could get hit by a car and die and the doctors would not know he had the disease.
The scenarios for going undetected are endless and making a statement that a new case after a certain date is not related without qualifying all that is pure Bull Shit.
Perhaps you could just try to answer the questions?
Much too broad a net. Every country has an outbreak of something or other. Every country has thousands of its citizens travelling overseas at any given time. What you propose is realistic for say, a health care worker who visits the site of an Ebola outbreak in Mali. It is most certainly not realistic or even useful for practically everyone else. Some of the reasons for that have been pointed out to you elsewhere on the thread.
Please see my #38
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