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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments
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To: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL who wrote (531)11/5/2014 5:21:41 PM
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Mostly agree. The entire focus the CDC has been fostering on "treating patients" and on a media campaign working to label their covert operatives as "heroes" are massive canards.

Treating patients is NOT what matters in controlling the epidemic.

What matters is preventing new patients...

Isolating the risk... removing the sources of risk from contact with the population... is what matters. That is the only effort that matters in terms of saving lives in larger numbers, by preventing new infections, rather than by focusing on saving the lives of those who are infected at a higher rate... which operates to increase the risks of exposing others... as a result.

That's not saying we shouldn't support a proper effort in caring for those infected. It is saying that the CDC is aggressively fostering the wrong policies... and is failing entirely in addressing the need to reduce the risks.

"And the ramp is likely if Ebola keeps growing rapidly in Africa and we do not close our borders to people returning."

Exactly so... which again points at the error in the focus in the CDC's advice... which operates to foster the risk and expand the CDC's turf... as they fail in doing their job... as they misdirect policy from what minimizes our risks... to what maximize's the CDC's power, influence, and budget.

It will be interesting to see what the collapse in the numbers being reported in Africa, now, turns out to mean... when someone manages to put together a proper forensic reporting effort...

It is too early to say "it's over". But, it is not too early to note that the very obvious anomalies apparent in the reporting... provide proof there is a huge disconnect between the facts and the numbers in the reports...

Perhaps it is not merely a coincidence... that the sudden collapse in the numbers being reported in Africa... coincided with the governors of U.S. states imposing quarantines... that would operate to deny the CDC the right and ability to import the contagion to the U.S. ?

I think it is true that the Ebola risk is "over" now... not in the sense that the battle in Africa can be declared over... but in the sense that the battle for controlling its spread has been won... not by the WHO and the CDC, but by those who are not going to allow the failures and the self serving stupidity of the WHO and the CDC to put the entire population of the globe at risk...

If the growth of the problem in Africa is not going to be allowed to put other regions at risk... because proper use of quarantines being imposed prevents that... then, those who might be supporting policies that enable the spread are denied the utility they seek...
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