Why?

we should be helping trying to contain it before it spreads any further

Of course, all measures should be taken to contain it in West Africa, but if it reaches Australia, it will not be too late, we will deal with it as we have dealt with AIDS, and all other infectious diseases in the past.

It is spreading fast in parts of Africa mainly because of the cultural customs and because the knowledge and equipment was not available at first.  But the main reason is that the West ignored it for 38 years because no white person was affected.

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@lightningdance wrote:

I didn't post the vicious and hate filled posts that I received from most of you on here.

Not once did I attack a poster and call them hate filled or ranters, infecting the boards and worse, all that came from the left on here

 

 Plibersek was and is  using ebola to open a rift in the bi partisan stance Lab and LNP were taking on security and ebola.

 

She has been exposed as the stalking horse for Shorten, she has been exposed a the one who is using the security crises and the Ebola crisis to make political mileage out of it, she has been doing it all week and it's a that Labor think will work for them.

 

None of you wanted to address that issue all you wanted was to mount one of the most savage attacks on one person I have ever seen on the boards..

 

Many of the more appalling attacks have gone but the essence of what happened here yesterday is still visible.

 

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If you missed Plibersek on Insiders, watch the segment online.  She is NOT "making political mileage" of the situation, she is trying to wake up the government and is pointing out the inhumane attitude that has prevailed to date.

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Of course, all measures should be taken to contain it in West Africa, but if it reaches Australia, it will not be too late, we will deal with it as we have dealt with AIDS, and all other infectious diseases in the past.

 

It is spreading fast in parts of Africa mainly because of the cultural customs and because the knowledge and equipment was not available at first.  But the main reason is that the West ignored it for 38 years because no white person was affected.

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I was reading this yesterday, still no reason for our "humanitarian" govt not to do it's bit in west Africa.

According to this detailed report, “all of the elements for plausibly stopping an Ebola epidemic existed years before the current outbreak: fast diagnostics, post-exposure treatments, and vaccines.” In fact, more than a decade ago, researchers writing in the medical journal Lancet acknowledged that “development of effective vaccines [against Ebola] requires industrial support and this did not seem to be feasible, knowing that there would not be a market for the vaccine.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/hysteria_over_ebola_fuels_racism_while_the_real_disease_is_capi...

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Of course, all measures should be taken to contain it in West Africa, but if it reaches Australia, it will not be too late, we will deal with it as we have dealt with AIDS, and all other infectious diseases in the past.

 

It is spreading fast in parts of Africa mainly because of the cultural customs and because the knowledge and equipment was not available at first.  But the main reason is that the West ignored it for 38 years because no white person was affected.

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 I just meant too late as in it would've already spread

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@boris1gary wrote:

the abbott mustn't think there are enough votes in it

 

Abbott's Ebola plan under fire

 

Australia is being reckless in continuing to ignore its international obligation to send personnel to help the fight against Africa's worsening Ebola outbreak, one of the world's leading humanitarian groups says.

 

A senior Australian representative of aid agency  Medecins Sans  Frontieres said countries such as Australia did not have time to "sit around on the sidelines" given the pace of the spread of the disease.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbotts-ebola-plan-under-fire-20141018-1184hx.html#ixzz3GXLLF3m2

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RICHARD DI NATALE, GREENS SENATOR: Because there are no votes in poor, black Africans dying.

ttp://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4108855.htm

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@lightningdance wrote:

The government is not stopping anybody from going over there to assist.

 

The government has said that it will not direct our military to go there at the moment as there is no safe extraction method in place at the moment.

 

This has all been discussed in the high level meeting that Shorten and Plibersek attended so what she is doing is ignoring all the advice of the experts and making political mileage out of it. She's scare mongering and saying  millions of people could have it within 60 days.

 

Just like when she went to the Central Coast and scared the living daylights out of  retirees and pensioners that their homes would be under water and they will have to sell.

 

She has form, she is a scare monger and she's making political mileage out of the Ebola crisis, she's not helping.

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That is simply not true.

There are many doctors and nurses and aide workers who are asking for assistance in order to go, but have been told "no" by those two church people, Bishop and Abbott.

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@lightningdance wrote:

The government is not stopping anybody from going over there to assist.

 

The government has said that it will not direct our military to go there at the moment as there is no safe extraction method in place at the moment.

 

This has all been discussed in the high level meeting that Shorten and Plibersek attended so what she is doing is ignoring all the advice of the experts and making political mileage out of it. She's scare mongering and saying  millions of people could have it within 60 days.

 

Just like when she went to the Central Coast and scared the living daylights out of  retirees and pensioners that their homes would be under water and they will have to sell.

 

She has form, she is a scare monger and she's making political mileage out of the Ebola crisis, she's not helping.

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That is simply not true.

 

There are many doctors and nurses and aide workers who are asking for assistance in order to go, but have been told "no" by those two church people, Bishop and Abbott.

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That is patently mendacious and you are just perpetrating Pliberseks scare campaign.