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Look Back 250 • Quarantine during 1918 Spanish flu epidemic saves lives
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^
| 10/4/2014
| Tim O'neill
Posted on 10/14/2014 6:54:58 PM PDT by John S Mosby
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Quarantining saves lives in all communicable diseases. Proven in the Influenza pandemic that killed 670K Americans. Misnamed the Spanish flu, it may have come from Chinese laborers brought to the WWI front in Europe and to our soldiers who then brought it to the US. There is NO excuse for maintaining air travel from W. Africa to the US. No passenger originating in W. Africa should be allowed to board a flight to the US. Then we need to contain what HAS gotten here from incompetence, or perhaps deliberate actions to further break our system. This is criminal mismanagement.
To: John S Mosby
Sorry- if you go to the article in order to read it they run you through a marketing question. Pardon me FReepers.
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posted on
10/14/2014 6:56:19 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: John S Mosby
Liberian national elections were to be held today but were canceled because of Ebola.
Never let a crisis go to waste...
To: John S Mosby
Wait for it - some Liberal somewhere will start squawking that quarantines are illegal.
To: John S Mosby
We are currently quarantining, but we are far from shutting down the public spaces.
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:04:47 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nationÂ’s electorate for democrats)
To: Jack Hammer
Doing what has proven to work for the good of the USA has never been one of his traits.
To: John S Mosby; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:06:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
To: Jack Hammer
Wait for it - some Liberal somewhere will start squawking that quarantines are illegal. Not illegal but certainly of questionable Constitutionality (1st Amendment freedom of assembly).
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:06:25 PM PDT
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: TigerClaws
“Liberian national elections were to be held today but were canceled because of Ebola.”
The saving grace is that it will effect the people in cities (dems) before those in fly over country.
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:07:35 PM PDT
by
babygene
To: John S Mosby
Today Democrats would say a Spanish flu quarantine is another example of Republican anti-Hispanic bias
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:07:46 PM PDT
by
Abakumov
To: John S Mosby
Stopping all flights out of African hot zones is a good start...
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:09:01 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(The beast roams the earth... there's been a seismic shift in our world. Rabbi Shalom Lewis)
To: John S Mosby
There was a polo quarantine too I Think.
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:10:51 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: SandRat
Polio. Yes there was until the vaccine.
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:11:47 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: GOPJ
It takes a real idiot or someone intent on being very destructive to not recognize that if you want to contain and treat something you restrict it to the smallest geographic area possible.
To: SandRat
In water polo, it’s only a 20 second exclusion.
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:12:28 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
To: SandRat
My daughter played horse polo in college.
Some of my academy mates played water polo.
When I was young we had canceled school because of polio.
To: Cold Heart
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:17:01 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: John S Mosby
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:17:19 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: John S Mosby
My great-uncle lost his wife and all of his children to the 1918 influenza epidemic.
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posted on
10/14/2014 7:18:11 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: SandRat
We all know that. But we jump on people more for spelling than opinion sometimes. Keeps things a little lighter.
I did see where other Freepers beat me time wise which makes me look like I plagerized but just type slower:)
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