1918 Pandemic - Time Article from 2007: Quarantine works!

Chadeaux

Gold Member
Sep 13, 2011
5,512
6,408
Southeast Arkansas
Detector(s) used
Ace 250
Primary Interest:
Cache Hunting
Study: Quarantines Work Against Pandemics - TIME

"The conventional wisdom had been that cities [in 1918] had done everything they could and nothing worked — it was all doom and gloom and dread and nothing to do but throw up our hands in despair," says Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a senior author of the study. "This study gives us real reason for optimism, that even reaching back to a time where there were no antiviral medications and no well-matched vaccines to fight a pandemic, the things communities did in terms of traditional public health tools — isolation, quarantine, social-distancing, canceling schools — made a big difference and have a lot of potential to mitigate the severity of a lethal disease pandemic."

There is not yet an antiviral medicine for Ebola. Based on that one FACT alone, QUARANTINE - the separating of infected and POSSIBLY INFECTED individuals AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE PUBLIC is the only sane solution.

We've already seen that "self quarantine" doesn't work.

Self quarantine is not quarantine, and it isn't enforceable.

If quarantine is MANDATORY for military who have been in West Africa, why is it not acceptable for the general population? Is there actually a desire for it to become a problem here? It certainly appears so.

MĂĽnchausen syndrome ... Hmmm...
 

Top Member Reactions

Users who are viewing this thread

Top