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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 10:42:08 GMT 1
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Post by flakeypastry on Oct 10, 2014 14:32:57 GMT 1
Well cameron has "bowed to public pressure" and is putting in measures at some of the entry points into the UK. SOME !! On news last night,a customs official stated" We do not need to scan people for Ebola,we have a very robust system for stopping people entering the uk" so how are the illegals etc. getting in ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 18:45:16 GMT 1
Flights from in or near the infected zones should have been stopped weeks ago.People working there ,from the UK or wherever, at hospitals or with the sick should have been quarantined for at least a month before being allowed back. The plans for screening are a joke, the plans for treating the victims are a joke, the whole thing would be a joke if it weren't so serious.It doesn't take a genius to work out how serious this could be World wide, I don't need the stories in the press to understand that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 20:00:40 GMT 1
" We do not need to scan people for Ebola,we have a very robust system for stopping people entering the uk" That comment is really disturbing, do some people actually believe that, how about the family who found a stowaway under their campervan or the lorry recently stopped on the M6 etc etc etc
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Post by JohnP on Oct 10, 2014 21:47:46 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 Johnp says I don't have any magic answers to this serious problem. I am offering an opinion. Neither am I an MP and paid £65-120k plus expensies to come up with the answers and take some responsibility for this disaster. Yes there has to be a long term stratagy but there has to be a bloody quick one too and that has to be concentrated on stopping the spread from it's source. Checking people entering the UK or France or anywhere else is unlikely to pick up carriers of ebola. Asking people where they have come from is even less likley to get an honest answer. The system is hugely flawed before it is even introduced.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2014 15:59:11 GMT 1
I see there is another Ebola sufferer in the US, one of the nurses who cared for the dead Ebola victim . So despite protective clothing they have contracted it. And the guideline say you will not catch it from sitting next to someone on a bus!!!!! Huh if you believe that you believe anything.
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Post by littlemouse on Oct 13, 2014 1:18:09 GMT 1
Brit chick why are you so scared?
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Post by JohnP on Oct 13, 2014 7:33:20 GMT 1
Brit chick why are you so scared? I think most ordinary people are concerned about what appears to be a total lack of control and effective preventitive measures put in place by respective governments. With no direct flights into the UK from affected areas, it will be difficult to establish where people entering the UK have come from and asking them questions is unlikely to get an honest response. We are talking about a government who have totally and absolutely failed to bring immigration legal and illegal under control. Look at Calais. Illegal immigrants camping everywhere unchecked, trying to enter the UK by any means possible. No checks on who they are or where they come from. What if just one of them was infected? Ebola is spreading out of control in Africa, no restrictions in place to prevent travel and no means of isolating infected patients. Why are western governments so confident that their healthcare systems which are already overburdened could cope with an outbreak? I am sorry but the current lack of realistic concern and the complaicency shown by politicians does not instill me with confidence.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 10:04:09 GMT 1
Brit chick why are you so scared? Because it is a dreadful way to die, because insufficient precautions are being taken to stop the spread, and selfishly because I am going on holiday in March and don't want it cancelled due to the Ebola.And actually I am more enraged than scared.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 11:57:48 GMT 1
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