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Thread #155774   Message #3669101
Posted By: GUEST,mg
14-Oct-14 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ebola and the Missionaries
Subject: RE: BS: Ebola and the Missionaries
You are right. The same ways of controlling epidemics in Liberia and epidemics in Denmark are pretty much the same, although in Denmark you have infinitely more resources, a more scientifically educated population, etc. But you must still quarantine. If someone does not like the rules you do not hope for their intellectual conversion. You must have martial law of some sort if you have to break into cultural practices, you must have the local priestesses or whatever explain it again and again, but you have to enforce martial law the same way it is usually enforced. You have to protect the health workers, the soldiers, the sanitation workers, the transporters. You have to work out the math to see how fast this can spread. Oh it is Africa and they have their special customs etc. we must respect. Sure, on a nice day. On a day when you and everyone around you can die you take on a different method. It has escaped Africa. It has been in Boston and Texas and Madrid. We are obtuse. When it gets into a refugee camp, a pilgrimage, a huge soccer tournament, either by natural transmission or acts of terrorism, watch out.