Comments: Social media have become overwhelmingly opposed to quarantining of the Ebola outbreak.

I haven't noticed an overwhelming opposition to quarantine, rather a lot of support for it. I guess it depends who you know.

Posted by Christopher Taylor at October 28, 2014 4:52 PM

"The great ebola policy divide

It breaks down this way—

The Obama administration and liberals: don’t panic. Trust us, less is more. No travel restrictions, no forced quarantine, the CDC knows best. We are the educated scientists and smart people, you are the dummy hysterics are operating on emotion.

Republicans and the right: the CDC and government have shown themselves to be unworthy of trust, the science is unsettled on this. So why not err on the side of caution. We need to protect our country and our people."

http://neoneocon.com/2014/10/28/the-great-ebola-policy-divide/

Posted by Van der Leun at October 28, 2014 4:55 PM

The Spillers of Soup endorse a shoot on sight street quarantine. Just like what's done to rabid dogs or a marauding mob of rapers and looters. Exuberant youth my ass.
"When Blacks riot, neighborhoods burn. When Whites riot, continents burn."

My uncle Letsgo always said: "Dead men spread no plague".
As for the bantam chickens, those little sumbitches are the living descendants of velociraptors. I wouldn't be messing with 'em.

Posted by chasmatic at October 28, 2014 6:19 PM

When the ebola victim is dead does the threat completely cease?

If an ebola victim is vaporized, say, shot in the chest by a LAW does the virus become aerosol and a danger to others?

If you swallow a spoonful of ebola then chase it with a whole bottle of rooster sauce straight down the pipe, will the virus still stick?

Since criminals can get into the WH at will isn't oasswipe concerned ebola will get in there too?

Posted by ghostsniper at October 28, 2014 7:31 PM

Why is it I am on the opposite side of everything this administration does. You would think that once in a while I could agree, once in a while, but no - never. I have never been so diametrically opposed to an administration as this one and I have survived the Carter years.

Posted by tripletap at October 29, 2014 5:13 AM

@trip: it is because you are one of us.

Posted by chasmatic at October 29, 2014 6:40 AM

If the MSM is opposed to quarantining it's because they can make more money reporting about new outbreaks and spread of disease from those not adequately detained. No logic, no sense.
You know, "If it bleeds, it leads." When they and their ilk burn in Hell they will leave no ash because they are people of no substance.

Posted by Stug Guts at October 29, 2014 6:51 AM

Ghost - If you swallow a spoonful of ebola then chase it with a whole bottle of Kickin' Chickin' straight down the pipe, the virus is obliterated.

Posted by BillH at October 29, 2014 7:34 AM

"Social Media" does not seem to be inhabited by a majority of regular folks of all races and worldviews such as those I've spoken to who want certain parts of Africa freakin' closed off, and would gladly have suspected infectees quarantined for weeks if necessary.

Posted by DonRodrigo at October 29, 2014 10:08 AM

The strategy for handling Ebola can be very simple.
I propose draconian and insensitive remedies: identify, isolate, kill, burn. Simplistic but imminently feasible given the primitive conditions, the remote areas, the low genetic makeup in the countries of the plague's origin.
Hold on, not racist - just the facts.

The logistics support this strategy. Isolated and easily cordoned off, far enough from civilization that travel can be monitored and interrupted.
I bet there are some killings out in the boonies where the sun don't shine, but not enough.

In this country we can use FEMA busses and trains to load up suspected carriers of the plague and haul them off to remote areas where long empty ditches and D10 Cats wait patiently.
The rationale is, collateral damage minimal and benefits for the greater good. Highly unlikely this will happen — no press and no money changing hands, greasing wheels and whatnot.
This plays better: Uncle Sam the Samaritan Man. We have landed a couple thousand troops and wheelbarrows full of equipment and bales of money in, where, Liberia?
Just think, donuts and coffee from the Red Cross and ten percent error rate. Photo ops abound: a suited up doctor (or maintenance man, who knows?) patting a victim on the back there, there. A pristine treatment room, all shiny glass and steel, for looks, not for blood and mucus and excrement all over the place, with a smell that would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon. Here in the USA we would provide bus fare and pocket money along with directions to the Democrat states.

We're doomed, doomed I tell ya.

Posted by chasmatic at October 29, 2014 10:10 PM

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