bullshite strawman.

We know how Ebola is spread.
We know how to prevent that spread.

The CDC maintains that Ebola is only potentially contagious when an infected person becomes ill. When an infected person is potentially contagious, he should quarantined. If the person is not contagious, he needn't be quarantined.

The Cruise Ship equation is a mere extension of CDC travel policy. The fact the CDC policy would ever allow a person to board a cruise ship if there was risk of Ebola exposure is breathtakingly dumb. Why? Because in the event of symptoms developing during the week long cruise, isolation/evacuation would be daunting.

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Posted by mmcgrath

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Member since Feb 2010

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Posted on 10/24/14 at 12:04 am to NC_Tigah

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The fact the CDC policy would ever allow a person to board a cruise ship if there was risk of Ebola exposure is breathtakingly dumb.

Where in the CDC guidelines does it say that getting on a cruise ship in this situation is OK? Why do you push all blame on the CDC and none on the Texas Health Department, the hospital in Dallas, or the healthcare professionals? Are the latter 3 a bunch of uneducated children? Did the lab worker or nurse talk to the CDC directly to get advice? No on both counts.

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Posted by Vegas Bengal

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Posted on 10/24/14 at 12:27 am to NC_Tigah

You really are exaggerating the chance of getting Ebola. The doctors are saying with this NY case, it would be "extremely unlikely" someone got it on a subway with him. I saw an infectious disease doctor on an empty plane with a journalist and she was peppered with what ifs and she kept answering the chances of spreading that way are very slim.

And if they're wrong them where are the cases? Duncan flew into the US, no one got it. He went to the hospital the first time, no one got it. He spent a few days with his family, no one got it. The EMS workers didn't get it. The two nurses who came down with it were in settings with intubation and kidney dialysis.

Same deal with these nurses. Who did they contaminate?

If it's that contagious, we'd see a hell of a lot of cases just from those three. And what do we see? Not one person came down with it outside that hospital setting.

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Posted by WeeWee

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 10/24/14 at 7:16 am to NC_Tigah

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The Cruise Ship equation is a mere extension of CDC travel policy. The fact the CDC policy would ever allow a person to board a cruise ship if there was risk of Ebola exposure is breathtakingly dumb. Why? Because in the event of symptoms developing during the week long cruise, isolation/evacuation would be daunting.

So you want the gov to tell what they can and can't do, got it. I got a slight fever this morning to do I need to call the CDC before I wipe my arse? Hurry up and tell me because this coffee is working this am.

The CDC policies are there to prevent the spread of the disease, which as far as we know worked. However, God forbid somebody with the professional knowledge go above and beyond the CDC policy just to be safe.

There is no sense in arguing with you anymore. You are too blinded by your hate of the CDC and its director to even listen to reason or read the posts of someone who has a different view