Ebola outbreak - general thread #1

SStarr33 said:

Photo of vomit cleanup:

https://twitter.com/wfaachannel8/status/517739906211528704

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Isabelle said:

I think if he did what you are describing, sneaked into the U.S. for treatment, I would expect the majority of US citizens to do the same if in his shoes. This hysteria is just ridiculous!

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WillenFan21 said:

This is an absolute shame that the vomit is just now being cleaned up. Are you kidding me?

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SweetT said:

Can you not be prosecuted for attempted murder by willfully having sex with others if you have hiv and not telling them? So if that's the case wouldn't willingly exposing others to ebola be the same?

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AlwaysShocked said:

During a press conference just broadcast on CNN it was revealed that the family members of patient Duncan who are quarantined have been non-compliant with the quarantine. They were not at home when the CDC came to take their temperature. In addition, they sent one of their children back to school. The CDC came to the school and removed the child from the classroom.

This is not good.

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AlwaysShocked said:

During a press conference just broadcast on CNN it was revealed that the family members of patient Duncan who are quarantined have been non-compliant with the quarantine. They were not at home when the CDC came to take their temperature. In addition, they sent one of their children back to school. The CDC came to the school and removed the child from the classroom.

This is not good.

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SStarr33 said:

Still trying to figure out what happens if vomit, etc... gets in the water system.

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SeekingJana said:

People are finally saying what I've thought all along.He KNEW what he was doing, and he chose to come here, to " visit" the USA and to possibly infect children and relatives in TX.
I wish he had died the day he arrived in the USA. Then no nurses or hospital personnel would have had to touch him, and likely most of those school children would not have been exposed to Ebola either.

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cady said:

The vomit cleaners have no protective clothing........JMO

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liebling said:

Only just started following this thread, but if anyone's interested, here's a neat writeup of the legal issues surrounding involuntary quarantine (using an instance of drug-resistant TB as an example, but this all applies to ebola as well):
http://www.americanbar.org/publications/law_practice_today_home/law_practice_today_archive/april11/protecting_civil_liberties_during_quarantine_and_isolation_in_public_health_emergencies.html
TL;DR - It isn't as simple as just locking them up. Huge U.S. constitutional implications.

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Le Singe said:

this can clearly be factually disproved, but awesome that you wish someone dead anyway .....

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effervescent said:

That's what I was thinking... it has to be some kind of infringement on constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.

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SweetT said:

Can you not be prosecuted for attempted murder by willfully having sex with others if you have hiv and not telling them? So if that's the case wouldn't willingly exposing others to ebola be the same?

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