Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Texas College Rejects African Students Citing Ebola" video.

It's stupid to be concerned about a communicable disease with a high mortality rate? Really? I hope someone backhands you today, and you think of this comment when it happens.
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***** Ebola is not yet contained in West Africa. The WHO also recommends 42-days of quarantine, not a month. And it can be spread through sexual contact for up to 3-months after the infection clears.
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robinvik1 The CDC is still following 21-day quarantine protocols. The WHO is following 42-day quarantine protocols. The CDC is allowing travel from West Africa to the US while the outbreak is actually occurring, which allowed the infection to get here in the first place (those two workers wouldn't be sick right now if we'd closed down travel from West Africa). People are being allowed to travel while they have a fever (at least one of which was later to, in fact, have Ebola). The CDC lied about not knowing how the nurse in Dallas contracted Ebola, implying that she breeched protocol. The CDC is failing us.
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robinvik1 The CDC had to publicly admit their lie after National Nurses United came down on the CDC about their "breech in protocol" statement regarding how the first nurse became infected.
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robinvik1 I'm not a conspiracy theorist, as you may think, but the CDC and the US healthcare system has been lax in preparing for Ebola coming to the US. It's understandable given that this has just been an issue on a far off continent nowhere near us. But the disease has now reached us here in our ivory tower. It's clear that the CDC and our healthcare system is scrambling and fumbling to try to get up to snuff to deal with this outbreak when they've focused their manpower on other more pertinent issues. Ebola preparedness just kept being put on the back burner, more or less. The CDC is publicly doing two things right now, and they're both PR damage control: They're trying to cover up their shortcomings and they're trying to keep the public from panicking.
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Hong Khuu Turn off auto-correct.
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We could all learn a little something from Madagascar on how to survive a pandemic.
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It's about reducing risk. Do you understand the word " risk ?" Bringing in someone from another nation is entirely different and more risky to infection of communicable disease by the public at large than is the risk of bringing in infection from a more local resident. When you have such an outbreak of a disease like this, it's generally a good idea to quarantine. Don't listen to the CDC who simply doesn't want to cause panic. They lied about the nurse "breaching protocol." It wasn't out of malice toward the nurse, but she was used as an unwitting martyr in hopes that they wouldn't have to say, "We don't know how she contracted Ebola," and potentially causing a subsequent panic in the public. Ebola is scary. We need to face this fact and treat it accordingly or it will become VERY scary.
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This is how it starts. Next step: zombies.
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It's a race thing, Cenk, because you think that they wouldn't stop European descended students because there are 4 cases in two countries? Consider this: Africa has a total of 8,997 cases in just 5 countries in this current outbreak. Yes, 4 cases outside of West Africa in developed nations is an absolute minimal risk by comparison. I'll refrain what I think of your comments personally right now, Cenk. I think I've made it clear here what everyone should think of your comments right now.
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***** Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria -- ALL countries in Africa affected and they are all on the African west coast. So, yes, West Africa, not just Africa. These nations would pretty much be equivalent to the western-most states of the 48 Contiguous states in the US including California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana and Arizona. Could you imagine if we had almost 9,000 cases of Ebola in just those states? Do you think that, say, the UK would be accepting student applications from that region of the US during the outbreak, if they accepted them from the US at all?
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***** Except that, if you use parallels, the last case was a month ago when the minimum quarantine period recommended by the WHO is 42 days, with another 3 months of possible infection by sexual contact. As such, it hasn't been long enough to determine it has been stamped out. Now do you think the UK would still allow it?
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***** The WHO, as I said, states that there should be a 42 day quarantine. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/14-october-2014/en/ Nigeria's 42-day period will be up on October 20th, again citing the above article from the WHO. There is no "effectively" anything until that 42-day period is over.
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***** "One probably has a higher chance of being struck by lightning." I love this saying when you're talking about chances like that. It's not like you're going to run around swinging around lightning rods in an electrical storm. There are reasonable cautions people take to ensure they do not get struck by lightning, and there is certainly worthwhile parallels there in prudent caution. It is school. It is not that they need some life-saving treatment that we're denying them. There is next year. There is no sense in a school going out and waving that proverbial lightning rod in the storm.
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***** We argue to share differing, and opposing, viewpoints. "So I guess everyone at Navarro better stay indoors then - online classes for everyone! - if they are so concerned as you imply, about mitigating any and all health/fatality risks to their students. Not to mention rampant gun violence, not to mention other diseases that lead to 1000's and 10,000s of deaths every year in America, not to mention STDs and a host of other risks (what would you know, life would appear to be just full and brimming with these, ugh, what an outrage!)" This red herring type of argument is part and parcel in every post you make. The control of communicable disease which has a high mortality rate is the point here. If someone gets shot, they don't turn into a shooting zombie that shoots other people. If someone gets struck by lightning, it doesn't increase the likelihood that others will be struck by lightning. Readily treatable disease processes for which we have therapies are not a concern. And STD's are not something those avoiding engaging in risky behaviors need be concerned about. "...somehow Nigeria's current 0 cases is a higher risk than the Texas and Spain's 4..." Nigeria will be lucky, given their practices, that they do not have a bad outbreak. Did you watch the video and hear how they're handling it? It's downright scary, despite Cenk trying to make it sound like they're doing a bang-up job. It's clear that you don't understand the dangers of high mortality communicable disease for which there is not real therapy. Ask a public health nurse, who works for your county, sometime how hard they work to keep mass death from happening in the US and how important quarantine is in Ebola.
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***** I never lumped African countries together in the first place. I'm not sure where you're getting that from. "I also absolutely do not know what leads you to think or deduce that Nigeria, who have so far handled this episode exceedingly well, will suddenly, out of nowhere have further disastrous outbreaks even after containment?" They haven't done exceedingly well, they've lucked out thus far. Having to make 18,500 home visits because potential carriers aren't checking in is a scary thought. And if experience serves in the area of government involvement in containing communicable disease, you can be sure that there are potential carriers who disappeared off of the map which the public health workers were unable to find. There's no way that an Ebola outbreak should be registering as a 2 on anyone's meter of what to be concerned with. On a scale of 1 (flu virus) to 10 (transmissible spongiform ecephalopathies), in acute alarm, Ebola is about an 8. If you think anything less, then you're enjoying being in your ivory tower a little too much.
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***** http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/alarm-after-vomiting-passenger-dies-on-flight-from-nigeria-to-jfk/
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***** A new article as food for thought between what's PR and what's really going on: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amid-assurances-on-ebola-obama-is-said-to-seethe/ar-BB9I7Kb "Those frustrations spilled over when Mr. Obama convened his top aides in the Cabinet room after canceling his schedule on Wednesday. Medical officials were providing information that later turned out to be wrong. Guidance to local health teams was not adequate. It was unclear which Ebola patients belonged in which threat categories. "'It’s not tight,' a visibly angry Mr. Obama said of the response, according to people briefed on the meeting. He told aides they needed to get ahead of events and demanded a more hands-on approach, particularly from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 'He was not satisfied with the response,' a senior official said. "The difference between the public and private messages illustrates the dilemma Mr. Obama faces on Ebola..."
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