Ebola outbreak - general thread #1

[SweetT]

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?

 

[SStarr33]

Photo of vomit cleanup:

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

 

[AlwaysShocked]

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.

 

[popsicle]

Vaughn Sterling ‏@vplus 14s15 seconds ago
BREAKING: U.S. sending hundreds more troops to Africa, in addition to the 3,000 already announced, to help #ebola response -@barbarastarrcnn

 

[WillenFan21]

Photo of vomit cleanup:

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

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

 

[Le Singe]

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!

it's irrelevant because he didn't do what they are describing.

 

[SStarr33]

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

Nice hazmat suits, doncha think?

Oopsy

 

[effervescent]

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?

I suppose if they pass a law to that effect for ebola, people could be prosecuted. At this time, there is no such law.

 

[SweetT]

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.

Again they clearly do not have this under control.. If my child were in that school I'd be livid.. Well I would have already taken my child out of the school

 

[WillenFan21]

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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These people need prosecuted for not complying. I am in shock and pissed off at how these people are acting!

 

[cady]

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

 

[SStarr33]

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

 

[liebling]

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.

 

[cady]

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

Or if dogs got there before the cleanup guys did......... JMO

 

[Le Singe]

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.

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

 

[SStarr33]

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

Ya think? I wonder if it is a problem if vomit particles containing ebola are aerosolized by a power washer and they are inhaled?

 

[effervescent]

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.

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

 

[cady]

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

and the whole family prosecuted....welcome to"MERCA" JMO

 

[SweetT]

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

Only if your an American citizen not a immigrant visa but I could be wrong.. But I also don't know the immigration status of the ebola victims other family members.. His wife is a US citizen and his children but the others I don't know

 

[passionflower]

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?

ITA...............prosecute! Lives are in great danger!