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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 16:52:24 GMT 1
Saw in the News that a child from Sierra Leone,due to start school in the UK , has been forced to stay at home due to the protests of parents of the other children.I think feelings of unease are starting,while it seems the government is doing absolutely nothing to protect the people in the UK and here in France.This disease could threaten us all,and hospitals will not cope with an epidemic.Does anyone else have fears about this?
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Post by bisdu on Oct 8, 2014 17:11:59 GMT 1
I must admit I have not been alarmed on a personal basis. It is easy to be complacent when one lives out in the sticks
I am however very alarmed for those who are out in Africa with what seems like very little hope. I imagine that the possibiblity of it seriously spreading to us in w europe is probably the best hope that those in the affected areas have.
I understand scientists in the uk have fast-tracked a drug which is / will be made available to aid/medical workers
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 17:42:40 GMT 1
I shouldn't think there was much profit to be had for a drug developed for use, purely, in Africa, so there could be hope from that direction now. I have two flights ,in the near future, which I am slightly iffy about now.
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Post by littlemouse on Oct 8, 2014 18:30:05 GMT 1
can ebola be passed on by other methods then transmission human to human?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 18:56:45 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 19:23:08 GMT 1
The whole thing is, in my opinion, being badly managed. Severe case of shutting the door etc.Taking temperatures at airports!!! there is a 3 week incubation period, so if you have just contracted it? ? The possible scenario is beyond belief,even with modern medicine.Hopefully I am being paranoid!
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Post by JohnP on Oct 9, 2014 7:21:22 GMT 1
In my humble opinion We should be worried. This outbreak started 6 months ago in a country/continent where majority of the people do not understand or have the facilities to cope with it. It has been spreading rapidly and has been reported worldwide but to date virtually nothing has been done. Surely one of the first things that should have been done would have been to cordon off and stop all travel in and out of affected areas, then send in international aid to help. Now that there has been a case of ebola contracted outside Africa the politicians are finally waking up to the danger and sending extra aid to the area but this is far too little to deal with the scale of the problem. In the UK the hospitals are showing off their facilities supposed to cope with cases that will appear and I am sure the odd isolated case will be successfully dealt with but the problem arises when there is an outbreak and it becomes impossible to isolate the victims.
I am not well educated, I do not come from a privillaged background, never been to university but the word ebola has registered with me as something to fear for many years. So why have politicians worldwide failed totally to recognise the possible implications of this outbreak? It seems to me that most ordinary people are worried and recognise the dangers while those who are charged with protecting their people have their heads in the sand spouting statistics and bulls**t.
I am not trying to scaremonger, just answering the question with the situation as I see it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 9:36:40 GMT 1
In my humble opinion We should be worried. This outbreak started 6 months ago in a country/continent where majority of the people do not understand or have the facilities to cope with it. It has been spreading rapidly and has been reported worldwide but to date virtually nothing has been done. Surely one of the first things that should have been done would have been to cordon off and stop all travel in and out of affected areas, then send in international aid to help. Now that there has been a case of ebola contracted outside Africa the politicians are finally waking up to the danger and sending extra aid to the area but this is far too little to deal with the scale of the problem. In the UK the hospitals are showing off their facilities supposed to cope with cases that will appear and I am sure the odd isolated case will be successfully dealt with but the problem arises when there is an outbreak and it becomes impossible to isolate the victims. I am not well educated, I do not come from a privillaged background, never been to university but the word ebola has registered with me as something to fear for many years. So why have politicians worldwide failed totally to recognise the possible implications of this outbreak? It seems to me that most ordinary people are worried and recognise the dangers while those who are charged with protecting their people have their heads in the sand spouting statistics and bulls**t. I am not trying to scaremonger, just answering the question with the situation as I see it. I absolutely agree with you JohnP. America are putting screening precautions at airports, the UK doesn't think it's necessary!!!!!! Insanity ! There is no way the NHS will cope with an epidemic, nor will France. There are not enough isolation facilities. This could be the nightmare scenario scientists have been mumbling about for years.............and the politicians do nothing.
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Post by JohnP on Oct 10, 2014 7:51:28 GMT 1
Well cameron has "bowed to public pressure" and is putting in measures at some of the entry points into the UK. The fact that no one seems to know what exactly they are going to do, shows they have given little or no thought to this before now. Someone needs to convince these worthless idiots that ebola is a danger to habitants of their planet too.
Personally I believe the best way to tackle the international spread is to put in a quarentine of 3 weeks on anyone leaving Africa who has been in an infected area but that would require multinational agreement and co-operation and a degree of common sense so I am not holding my breath.
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Post by littlemouse on Oct 10, 2014 9:10:47 GMT 1
Well cameron has "bowed to public pressure" and is putting in measures at some of the entry points into the UK. The fact that no one seems to know what exactly they are going to do, shows they have given little or no thought to this before now. Someone needs to convince these worthless idiots that ebola is a danger to habitants of their planet too. Personally I believe the best way to tackle the international spread is to put in a quarentine of 3 weeks on anyone leaving Africa who has been in an infected area but that would require multinational agreement and co-operation and a degree of common sense so I am not holding my breath. I can't see how your proposal is workable,how are you going to decide what would be a "safe" buffer zone around your "infected area.Nothing would stop an infected person,presuming they knew they were infected, from travelling to an uninfected area.Does your proposal include animals which spread the disease? Where would you quarantine the people? who would pay for it? I'm not saying that ebola isn't a threat, but constant knee jerk reactions,mostly from the red top gutter press in the UK doesn't help anyone.There is no simple quick solution.Education and money is the only way forward(my opinion) but that's long term and as the same gutter press are calling for cuts to foreign aid budgets no real help will be forthcoming. Thanks for the link sonnetpete it was very enlightening
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