Ebola - Red Alert in Nigeria

zjl56 said:
There is no such thing as the freedom to travel. All travelers can be denied entrance at the whim of that country. Banning travelers from Liberia and Sierra will prevent a few other cases getting in, and cost us a pittance in lost trade.
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See? Scared enough to force others to suffer opportunity costs, but not scared enough to make token donations.

Agree to disagree whether travel is a freedom. I mean, it is, we just don't pretend it's a right.
 
El_Machinae said:
See? Scared enough to force others to suffer opportunity costs, but not scared enough to make token donations.

Agree to disagree whether travel is a freedom. I mean, it is, we just don't pretend it's a right.
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What opportunity are you talking about? The opportunity to lie on questionnaires to get into countries with superior healthcare systems all for the small cost of maybe infecting a few other people? Hope they charge this typhoid mary wannabe with something either here or in Liberia.
 
Oh, I'm not saying we don't need to be limiting travel, but keep in mind that it involves forcing thousands of people to stay in zones where they're at risk. That's what I'm talking about when I mention opportunity costs. It's the other, non-infected, people who're we're expecting to bear the brunt of containment policies. We're willing to do that to them, but lots of people aren't willing to donate small amounts of cash to aid the frontline workers and thus help decrease the actual risk borne by the non-infected. We're scared enough to want others to bear all the costs, but not scared enough to bear some of the costs ourselves.
 
The Spanish media are already informing the people on the early symptoms of the disease and the government is already planing something. I'm frighterned, this is scary.
 
I keep hearing that the number of cases is doubling... every so often (I forget what period of time).

Exponential growth of an epidemic is scary indeed.

But ebola isn't air-borne. So just don't touch anyone. Or anything. And you'll be fine.
 
Which is why the time period for doubling is crucial, I think.

If the number of Ebola cases is doubling every month. That means we've got... erm... a few years?
 
Im still not sure I buy they truly know how it spreads. Doctors and nurses taking full precautions somehow catch it despite assurances it really doesnt spread that easily. In africa you could chalk that up to the hectic environment, but now that its happened in a first world hospital?
 
Spain is trying to be the centre of attention again. Shame on "our" goverment who brought this epidemy to Spain. They knew the risks, we weren't prepared to treat this kind of illness. At least "our" president is going to fulfill one of his promises of reducing unemployment.
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THIS A FIRST WORLD HOSPITAL!
 
Yea, ebola is not a threat. Don't let the fearmongers get to you. It's really not that contagious and kills far too quickly to morph into a pandemic. All of this will simmer down in a year or so.
 
Linkman226 said:
Yea, ebola is not a threat. Don't let the fearmongers get to you. It's really not that contagious and kills far too quickly to morph into a pandemic.
All of this will simmer down in a year or so.
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FriendlyFire said:
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That estimate is a worst case scenario that's still is at least somewhat probable. But something lasting for a very long time does not necessarily make it worse for society. Let's be honest, no one is particularly afraid that people will die from ebola in and of itself they are afraid that people will die of ebola so quickly that it will destabilize society and make life hectic and stressful even for people without ebola. This is why we are far more afraid of viruses and bacteria (like ebola) than things that kill far, far more people, like obesity, smoking, malaria, suicide, drunk driving, drug abuse, etc. Therefore even if ebola infected several million people (a highly unlikely event), over the course of a year, that would have a fairly negligible impact on the world, unless, of course, we let it (by sacrificing yet more freedoms to the state).
 
This is god punishing spain for what they did to central america
 
Lights said:
Spain is trying to be the centre of attention again. Shame on "our" goverment who brought this epidemy to Spain. They knew the risks, we weren't prepared to treat this kind of illness. At least "our" president is going to fulfill one of his promises of reducing unemployment.
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THIS A FIRST WORLD HOSPITAL!
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Spain is not first world.
Spain is just a bad joke.
Spain has as Health Minister a woman whose only excellence is being wife of a charged of corruption that knows too much
 
Tell me more about how Spain isn't a first world country because one person has ebola and there are isolated instances of corruption. I'm sure Indian and Chinese peasants slaving away for two bucks a day, half of which goes to paying "protection money" to the local police chief, are deeply interested in your complex socioeconomic and political explanation of how the Spanish are even remotely in the same league as them.
 
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