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re: Taking in foreign Ebola patients...
Posted on 10/30/14 at 8:07 am to Porky
Posted on 10/30/14 at 8:07 am to Porky
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Deadly contagious diseases are not superstition. Look up the Flu epidemic of 1918. It was spread to the U.S. by soldiers returning from WWI. It brought our economy and country to a standstill at the time and the only way it was stopped was through quarantine on a massive scale. It killed my maternal grandmother.
Infectious diseases are nothing to take lightly
Quarantines didn't stop it. In fact putting all the suspected sick people together made it worse.
The lessons learned from these early pandemics is that we need our health system prepared to quickly identify and properly respond to deadly diseases, not make panicked decisions.
This post was edited on 10/30/14 at 8:26 am
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Posted on 10/30/14 at 8:28 am to mmcgrath
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Quarantines didn't stop it. In fact putting all the suspected sick people together made it worse.
Call it whatever you want but churches, schools, and most public facilities were closed. Many public restrictions were imposed at the time and attempts were made to isolate those infected.
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Schools, theaters, churches and dance halls in cities across the country were closed. Kansas City banned weddings and funerals if more than 20 people were to be in attendance. New York mandated staggered shifts at factories to reduce rush hour commuter traffic. Seattle’s mayor ordered his constituents to wear face masks. The first study found a clear correlation between the number of interventions applied and the resulting peak death rate seen. Perhaps more importantly, both studies showed that while interventions effectively mitigated the transmission of influenza virus in 1918, a critical factor in how much death rates were reduced was how soon the measures were put in place.
This post was edited on 10/30/14 at 8:37 am
Posted on 10/30/14 at 8:36 am to mmcgrath
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Quarantines
President says it not needed. So what happens? DOD says troops coming back from the humanity construction detail will be quarantined.
Go figure. As John Q. Citizen, interpreting mixed signals makes it a little hard to accept any signals this admin is putting out.
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