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Ebola - Nothing to Worry About?
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Originally posted by alluvial View PostHmm, do you mean the reading the papers to see how things are going in Africa or the asking nurses to look out for a disease that none of them have had any experience of and could be easily mistaken for the flu in the early stages?
Or perhaps they didn't think of that, what with not having had the foresight to turn to a contractors' forum for guidance from somebody who's read a couple of paragraphs in a newspaperComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostHow do you know no NHS staff dealing with the athletes have experience of haemorrhagic fevers? There are, you may be surprised to know, specialist centres for the treatment of tropical illnesses in the UK; and it's not as if they'll be expecting visiting athletes from central Africa to pop down to Dr. McTavish's surgery and sit in the waiting room for a couple of hours. Maybe - just maybe - an organisation dedicated to providing medical care has had the foresight to get a few people with experience of tropical diseases to join the medical staff attending on the athletes?
Or perhaps they didn't think of that, what with not having had the foresight to turn to a contractors' forum for guidance from somebody who's read a couple of paragraphs in a newspaper
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostHow do you know no NHS staff dealing with the athletes have experience of haemorrhagic fevers? There are, you may be surprised to know, specialist centres for the treatment of tropical illnesses in the UK; and it's not as if they'll be expecting visiting athletes from central Africa to pop down to Dr. McTavish's surgery and sit in the waiting room for a couple of hours. Maybe - just maybe - an organisation dedicated to providing medical care has had the foresight to get a few people with experience of tropical diseases to join the medical staff attending on the athletes?
Or perhaps they didn't think of that, what with not having had the foresight to turn to a contractors' forum for guidance from somebody who's read a couple of paragraphs in a newspaper
One would hope that measures have been put in place to monitor the athletes and their entourage, with professionals with direct experience of the disease being involved. However, the cynic in me says that it is more likely that they'll consider the risk too small to be worth more than "monitoring of the situation" or will consider it too un-PC to single out a group that requires additional monitoring.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostIndeed very dodgy ground if they have not been looking for the answers on here
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Originally posted by alluvial View PostShouldn't we all just have blind faith in the authorities that they know what they are doing?
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Originally posted by alluvial View PostBut you know, I really wouldn't be surprised if it was.
But then, what else can be done? Monitoring is all well and good, but all monitoring will tell you is that no one has presented any symptoms yet. Then, when your monitoring identifies that there is someone with the disease, it is probably too late.Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.
No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.Comment
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Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View PostUse Hadrians Wall for something useful, set Scotland as a quarantine zone then when independance comes we just catapult anyone undesirable over the wallComment
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