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re: Taking in foreign Ebola patients...
Posted on 10/30/14 at 7:55 am to mmcgrath
Posted on 10/30/14 at 7:55 am to mmcgrath
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Way back when we used to do a lot of things that were based on superstition and not science. You would think we had gotten past all of that, but some politicians have found superstition and phobias to be very useful.
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 several of my ancestors, and by some estimates, as many as 50,000,000 people worldwide.
Infectious diseases are nothing to take lightly.
This post was edited on 10/30/14 at 8:01 am
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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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