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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we must ask the question...should we detain all healthcare worker? I say yes.[/quote]

That is an excellent way to allow this epidemic to spread even further.

The way to control it is to control it in Africa. The way to control it in Africa is to send medical workers over to help. And the way to send medical workers is not to treat them like criminals.

The courts will not uphold these quarantines. The case law goes back many decades. the science just won't support it. This is all being driven by hysteria.[/quote]

Your post makes no sense. Asking people to keep out of public and self-monitor for three weeks is hardly treating them like criminals. And certainly allowing potentiall infected people in from affected countries on visas is playing with fire

So again, who are you willing to risk?  [/quote]

Its not a risk. I would have a returning health care worker who had no symptoms over for dinner. No question.

When did we become a country of whiney scaredy cats?[/quote]

And that would be your choice. Now justify for me why you ridicule others who have the freedom to make their own choices.

In addition, can you pinpoint for me, the exact time symptoms would start and when someone is contageous?  [/quote]

Fever seems to be the first symptom. But people are only marginally contagious at that point. Its as they get sicker and are spewing fluids that they become highly infectious. The sicker they are, the more infectious they are. In fact, the folks in the US who have had Ebola all got it from a patient who died (presumably that was true of the doctors returning from abroad). At the point when patients are highly contagious, they aren't walking around outside.

And this is why its misleading to compare it to other illnesses like smallpox. The level of contagiousness for Ebola is conditional on the level of illness. This is, for example, very different from HIV which people could transmit for years before becoming sick.

You are absolutely free to make your own choices. But you cannot impose your choice on others and restrict their freedom when the science just isn't there.

I continue to believe that one or several of you got some kind of charge from the fear of Ebola and as the facts continue to undermine that fear -- as patients in the US get well and as it turns out they transmitted it to no one outside of the hospital -- you can't let it go.[/quote]

If you can't pinpoint the moment someone is contagious, then the science is not there - there is risk, even if that risk is low. It's not about fear, it's about the rights of the people not being undermined by the rights of the nurse.  they have the right to be free FROM her. If the people in her town want to post photos of her with the words 'avoid contact with this person until X date' they can do so. And you can bet this nurse would further be screaming about HER rights being infringed upon. Because activists don't care about the rights of others - they care about the emotional impact of their 'cause'

She was initially quarantined in Jersey because her temperature at the airport recorded at 101.  They had every right to take her to hospital to check the situation out. That's why she was quarantined to begin with[/quote]

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