Can you type those last two sentences in bold all caps using the largest headline font that this board supports, please?
I'm hearing about landfills refusing the ASHES of incinerated ebola-related medical waste. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO effin' reactionary, in the same type of way that pops was shaking his head over.
I am grateful that people seem to NOW be getting the idea that the enforcement is through the individual /STATES/.
Here's an editorial by the former director of CDC, who is crediting with coming up with the strategy to eliminate smallpox. He has some good thoughts on the evolution of the response to this still unfolding event:
http://www.humanosphere.org/global-health/2014/10/op-ed-bill-foege-make-ebola-worse/
Hello; I read the article by Bill Foege by following your link. I agree with his evaluation citing failure of the need to follow, find and isolate a large number of Ebola contacts in Africa. and that their health care system is overwhelmed. The need to identify and isolate Ebola contacts seems a key part of the plan to control the outbreak in Africa. So if I read correctly it is Interesting that isolation (quarantine is isolation, is it not?)of such contacts here in the USA is not what he advocates.
In fact he says that there is not evidence that quarantine is any better than simply taking the temperature of Ebola contacts twice a day. My take is that at least in quarantine the Ebola contacts will not be riding airplanes, taking cruises, using the subways or going out to get pizza. Three of those four examples were health care workers who at least claimed they were taking their temps.
I agree that this outbreak in Africa can take months to contain. Somehow the logic is supposed to be that the free travel of health care workers and other people to and from the USA and the hot spots in Africa should not be interfered with by the unpleasant aspects of quarantine?
Let me see if I have this correct. The plan is to identify and isolate the Ebola contacts in Africa and to allow the Ebola contacts coming here to simply self-monitor symptoms by taking temperatures twice a day? NOTE – I understand that an NIH Dr. has described a four tier severity of contact scale but I will not get into that as I do not recall it mentioned in the article.
I also agree that our current screening in airports is not fool proof. Seems another way that quarantine might be of value? So yes, I am among the people that are critical of much of the current public health approach and do favor the calling for some sort of travel ban and some sort of enforced isolation. Travel can be prioritized to allow only such travel that has some critical purpose. Seeing as how voluntary isolation has already been violated , then enforced is likely to be necessary.
I guess this is enough said and will not go into the distractions of influenza, tobacco, guns and hospital acquired infections. I think I will stay up late to see if we get the snow predicted. We may have the earliest measurable snowfall on record here tonight.