Reply to What Precautions Are in Effect to Screen Students Who Might Have Traveled to Ebola-Affected Areas?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "What Precautions Are in Effect to Screen Students Who Might Have Traveled to Ebola-Affected Areas?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well now that there is an actual potential case of Ebola in Fairfax County (from the Pentagon bus tour) those screenings are looking pretty prescient and like a fantastic idea.

IMHO the schools should be using one of those no-touch thermometers to take the temperature of every kid before the day starts, and send anyone who has a fever home.  Kids aren't supposed to be in school with a fever anyway, so it would just be enforcing current school policy while alleviating a small but deadly risk of spreading Ebola through a school [/quote]

I like how you wrote "actual potential".  That is some top notch Orwellian doublespeak.

By your logic there should be airport style screening at every school.  That will help "alleviate a small but deadly risk" of a shooting at the school.  And you should also be sure to not drive anywhere, as that will "alleviate a small but deadly risk" of dying in a car crash, which is BY FAR the most likely way your children will be injured or die this year.

[b]The risk is so small for non health care workers [/b]1000 miles away from the 2 known cases that the things you outline are way overkill.  The education stuff is fine, telling people what to look out for, modes of transmission, etc.  But any sort of "screening" that isn't concentrated on people who might be exposed is ridiculous at this point.  [/quote]
That's right throw healthcare workers under the bus. Gotta love America. They crap all over healthcare workers, treat them with disregard and then have the nerve to complain about unexceptional healthcare.[/quote]

PP here, this is definitely getting into off-topic areas, sorry Jeff.  Meant no disrespect to health-care workers, especially those are truly risking their lives by working with infected patients.  The comment was meant to indicate that the true risks of ebola are to those very health-care workers, and that once you move a degree of separation or two away from those folks, the risk drops precipitously.  The officials in Dallas by no means handled this case correctly from the beginning, but the media is making all of this a much bigger deal than it is, and really tapping into some parts of the human psyche that aren't good at properly assessing risk.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/wrong-about-risk-blame-your-brain/[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics