$500mill to stop IS. $18mill to stop Ebola.

[i-need-a-martini]

Personnel we deployed to to fight I.S.? 

600.

Personnel we deployed to fight Ebola?

Zero.

[cherry*135]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

why would the other passengers get

infected?  if a sick person was being

evacuated - wouldn't they be isolated?

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The person may not know they have ebola when they get on the plane, for e.g. a volunteer aid worker returning home.

There was a women in QLD who had returned to Australia, and after she returned it was suspected she had ebola. In the end, tests showed she didn't

[muppet_detector]

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@debra9275 wrote:

Health Minister Peter Dutton said an infected person would not survive the 30-hour flight to Australia if they were to contract the virus in West Africa. Government officials said it could take up to a week to evacuate an infected person to Australia.

the trouble with that arguement Julia is that if a person was infected and got onto a 30 hour plane trip and died before they arrived here,  it is highly likely that others on that plane could have caught the infection from that person, (whether dead or alive) and it would not show up for a few days,

so I just can't see it as being a valid point, sorry

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so doesn't it make sense not to expose anyone to those circumstances?

Send people over, when they get infected, leave them there to die, or bring them home for treatment and to be with their families etc, but risk putting the lives of others into danger and laying out the welcome mat for the disease to come to Australia?

People may have volunteered to go, but have they volunteered to stay and die?

[debra9275]

if you read back properly you will see that I apolologized for not reading the post properly

& that is not what I said btw

[polksaladallie]

Texas Hospital Director 'Deeply Sorry' for 'Mistakes'

In an exclusive interview Thursday with NBC’s TODAY, another nurse at the hospital, Briana Aguirre, said that Ebola procedures were so lax that she would refuse to go there if she developed symptoms herself.

She described a confused response at the hospital, inadequate protective gear and careless treatment of hazardous waste.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/texas-hospital-director-deeply-sorry-mistakes-...


 



[debra9275]

She described a confused response at the hospital, inadequate protective gear and careless treatment of hazardous waste.

that is truly shocking

[raptor_rebooted]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

why would the other passengers get

infected?  if a sick person was being

evacuated - wouldn't they be isolated?

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The person may not know they have ebola when they get on the plane, for e.g. a volunteer aid worker returning home.

There was a women in QLD who had returned to Australia, and after she returned it was suspected she had ebola. In the end, tests showed she didn't

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why would there be a need to evacuate

a person who didnt know they were sick?

isnt that what we are talking about here?

evacuation of sick personnel?

[polksaladallie]

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@muppet_detector wrote:

so doesn't it make sense not to expose anyone to those circumstances?

Send people over, when they get infected, leave them there to die, or bring them home for treatment and to be with their families etc, but risk putting the lives of others into danger and laying out the welcome mat for the disease to come to Australia?

People may have volunteered to go, but have they volunteered to stay and die?

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You need to read up about this virus and its treatment.

When they return, they are isolated for 21 days, and if they do not develop a fever, they will be OK.  They are infectious only when a fever begins, and after of course.

Every city has treatment centres ready to accommodate anyone who presents with this virus.

[cherry*135]

Not only Australian personnel sent there by the Govt that could contract ebola virus and carry it back here.

The QLD returning volunteer developed a fever after she got home and reported herself to the authorities.

[polksaladallie]

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@debra9275 wrote:

She described a confused response at the hospital, inadequate protective gear and careless treatment of hazardous waste.

that is truly shocking

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It certainly is, and before that, they sent Mr Duncan home with aspirin or something.  Then when he returned, he was apparently sitting in an open area with other people.  They stuffed up big time.

[muppet_detector]

Hold on, isn't the concern the evacuation for those already sick? already showing the symptoms?