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Originally posted by AlphaStarred We can teach them our "medical resources" or provide the necessary equipment. Are you saying it's fine for some American to go and contract ebola, putting his life and the lives of all Americans at risk? I actually wonder how many lives those 2 previously afflicted Americans saved. What they were doing is noble and all, but putting yourself in the midst of an ebola outbreak is just fucking stupid, if you ask me.

Stupid to you, not stupid to everyone, thankfully. How much knowledge do you think doctors gain by being able to actually SEE ebola in action? To actually treat it? Don't you think that's important? Until recently, ebola outbreaks have been relatively contained. Countries outside of Africa have absolutely no experience in dealing with it.

Medical advancements are wrought through suffering, misery, and experience. We're lucky to have people willing to throw themselves in harms way for the betterment of medicine.

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Originally posted by enydo Stupid to you, not stupid to everyone, thankfully. How much knowledge do you think doctors gain by being able to actually SEE ebola in action? To actually treat it? Don't you think that's important? Until recently, ebola outbreaks have been relatively contained. Countries outside of Africa have absolutely no experience in dealing with it.

I highly doubt any medical advancement has been made as a result of the recent few American doctors contracting ebola and coming back to the US with it.

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Medical advancements are wrought through suffering, misery, and experience. We're lucky to have people willing to throw themselves in harms way for the betterment of medicine.

So by that logic, people might as well submit themselves as test subjects for various unknown medical experiments. After all, it's for the betterment of medicine, right?!

And my original comment was also in reference to the guy who went to a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, contracted ebola, and died. He left his wife and kids back home. You think he contributed anything to medicine?

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Originally posted by AlphaStarred So by that logic, people might as well submit themselves as test subjects for various unknown medical experiments. After all, it's for the betterment of medicine, right?!

You mean... medical trials? They're generally not "unknown", but it's the same principle.

I find your condescension for the people you've mentioned who have died or gotten sick fucking laughable.

Except I wasn't condescending. It's just crazy especially when one has a family to pretty much drop everything and go somewhere where you might contract an incurable disease that has over a 50% death rate.

I'd also like to see you reconcile your previous statements about "medical advancements" (I'd also like to see a source, since you're so keen on it) with potentially putting all of America in harm's way.

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Yeah guys, this is no joke. This is an interesting topic anyhow. Cor version ftw.

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Originally posted by OrangestO

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Originally posted by AlphaStarred with potentially putting all of America in harm's way.

'Murica is not in harm's way. Even Mexico would stand a great chance at containing anything, since they actually have an existing healthcare system and wouldn't generally be fighting the uneducated and superstitious. Ebola ravages these African nations because they rely almost exclusively on foreign aid to assist in these outbreaks.

But at least Ghana can enrich Uranium, that's great.

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Originally posted by AlphaStarred ...potentially putting all of America in harm's way.

If you read into how ebola spreads it's not exactly the new Black Death. A country with a modern medical system and an informed populace is not going to be overrun.

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I'm quite sure there isn't going to be an outbreak, but all the same there is still a possibility (however infinitesimal). And considering that this is the first ebola diagnosis here, it might give countless Americans a scare, to say the least.

So, how are the politicians going to spin this one in their favor before the midterm elections?

Well this case is in Texas, so obviously Obama has hatched a devious plot to import his afflicted Muslim brethren from Guinea and infect the great Nation Of Texas, thereby justifying Rick Perry's sound plan to build a 100ft. wall around the border to keep out the Africans.

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