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Originally Posted by megansmomma  I think this entire back and forth debate just needs to be dropped. Everyone has an opinion on what is happening because of all of the idea that it is now spread outside of West Africa. But that was bound to happen. Thankfully, we (very general) live in conditions that are not third world with controls in place that put there for a reason. In the US we have the CDC and the government in charge when it comes to outbreaks of contagious diseases. There is none of this control where the virus is widely spread. |
We each of us have all vigorously debated and defended our positions back and forth on various threads, including you, for the years I've been a member. Have you taken this position of recommending dropping the back and forth when you were in the midst of a such a debate? If you have, I apologize for taking issue with and defer to you for showing such restraint and strength of character. If you haven't, how is this any different from when you were in the throes of debating? I understood the forum allowed each person the freedom to fully express his/her thoughts as long as they follow the rules of the forum and stay on the subject of the thread.
Still, the poor man is dead and it really is time to begin to think about other things. It's going to be a sobering and anxious week as we all wait to see which other of his close contacts develop symptoms as direct contact is so dangerous. I sure pray those children, who kept hugging and kissing him, as his niece described it, or his partner/fiancee, who slept with and likely came into very close contact with him during his well and conversion to contagious periods, can somehow escape infection. Hopefully, if they do get sick, they will go to a different hospital under full measures of isolation all the way through the process and get the best of care.