Yeah I really don’t understand how they can say it would be easily to keep a handle on here.
A simple way to screw up everything:
We have an outbreak during regular influenza season. So people are having those “early symptoms” by the millions and 999 out of 1000 are common flu. You can’t just put them all in ebola isolation ward with the rest of the ebola patients. For one thing there would be too many and for another you’d end up infecting them all with ebola when all they had was the flu.
And in the time it would take to run tests on them all, they’re all infectious... but you don’t know if they are the 999 with the flu or the 1 with ebola... until after the test.
How on earth would we handle that?
They’re just assuming that it simply could not get that far. But all that would have to happen is just a handful of cases in inner city areas of a few cities and suddenly you’d have no idea whether any given case was flu or ebola.
You’d have to trust the population to self isolate anyone sick and not touch them or their clothes or bedding. And the few poor souls who have ebola... it would be too late to help them by the time the advanced symptoms show up.
This is why I don’t understand their “don’t worry” attitude. Yes, it’s not super easy to transmit because it isn’t airborn but even in western countries you’re likely to have human contact during the early infectious period.
I’m confused...
Possibly their lack of concern or confidence with their stupidity is more due to not wanting to cause a panic, so in their mind lying is justifiable “for the greater good”. We’ve heard that before right?