Northwest Slobovia wrote:Yes, it can be. Go find out how many doctors and nurses there are treating ebola patients, compare that to the number who got it, and report back.
I don't care about the total number, what I care about is that these people are at the highest risk for infection and something as minimal as a quarantine is hardly the stuff of human rights violations or violations of a person's rights. Since you want hard numbers though: Per the WHO, 10,000 cases, 440 of them health workers, half have died.
Northwest Slobovia wrote:Uh, yeah. The initial symptoms are GI distress (ie diarrhea, sometimes bloody) and fever. SOP for these people is checking their temps twice a day, and the last person to get it called 911 immediately on getting symptoms. The SOP works just fine, thanks.
The last person to get it called immediately upon realizing they had symptoms. The two are not one in the same.
Northwest Slobovia wrote:Oh, so you have a shitty life, so other people should have one too? Good reason there...
I was subject to precautions deemed necessary and acceptable, I accept this. I did not go telling the media my rights were violated because the government wanted to monitor me and slowly re-introduced deployed service members to normal day-to-day life.
Northwest Slobovia wrote:You mean like the current working SOP?
No, something a bit more isolated would be nice. We've got infected people flying around the country. I'm fine with putting someone in quarantine in their own house/apartment but there needs to be some way to make sure that person doesn't leave.
Northwest Slobovia wrote:Some do, some don't. If you want to write off all people with asthma as having "one foot in the grave", you're discounting rather a lot of young, healthy Americans who just need to be careful when they get sick. The flu kills plenty of kids and perfectly healthy adults too, with the fraction varying from year to year and strain to strain. In short, yes, total mortality is what sensible people worry about, not the disease's novelty or special effects.
I definitely wouldn't classify someone with asthma as being a "healthy American" any more than I would someone who is obese. With the exception of H1N1, the Spanish Flu and other such strains that basically trick the immune system into attacking the body instead of the disease , very few people people die from the flu but rather from a secondary infection such as pneumonia. And how did we respond to the Spanish Flu and H1N1? With quarantines. I was at NS Great Lakes during the height of the H1N1 outbreak, there was an entire barracks devoted to housing suspected cases of H1N1 to isolate those individuals and prevent further spread of the disease.
Northwest Slobovia wrote:If you're volunteering to spend a month locked in a hospital room, feel free, but to deter doctors and nurses from curing the sick due to your ignorance of current working methods to keep them and us safe is simply wrong.
I am volunteering to do no such thing as I have not been in an infected zone. However, I am a Seabee, which means if this thing goes on long enough I will probably get a call saying it's my turn to head over to an infected country to build clinics in which case I fully expect to be subject to a quarantine because if the Army is going to quarantine a major general for 21 days, I suspect they will have no problem putting a petty officer in quarantine as well. This isn't a punishment, it's a precaution.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:15 pm