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    Bringing it home! This is Utter Insanity!

    Lets say that the Chernobyl Reactor accident had happened not on a fixed, ground based power plant, but on a floating Ice Breaker Ship power plant, when the reactor explosion and melt down occurred.

    It is five days into the melt down crisis, and America wants to step up to help... Sooooo, We tow the crippled ship into San Francisco Harbor to effect repairs!

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health...eak/index.html



    Source: Flight leaves for Liberia to evacuate Americans infected with Ebola

    By Chelsea J. Carter, Ben Brumfield and Jacque Wilson, CNN

    (CNN) -- A U.S.-contracted medical charter flight left Cartersville, Georgia, Thursday to evacuate two American charity workers in Liberia infected with Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a source told CNN.

    A CNN crew saw the airplane, a long-range business jet, depart shortly after 5 p.m. ET. The plane matched the description provided by the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.


    It was not immediately known when the two Americans -- identified as Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol -- would arrive in the United States, or where the plane would land.


    At least one of the two will be taken to a hospital at Emory University, near the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, hospital officials told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.


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    Good Freaken GODS!

    Have we utterly lost our minds!

    Send the doctors and medical equipment to them! Do NOT bring them back HERE!

    How many other countries might we infect and destroy, including our own, if an accident occurs during the movement!

    How suicidally stupid is this Administration!

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    Last edited by Kurmugeon; 07-31-2014 at 05:44 PM.
    We are living in sad times.

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    What's the scale of the nuclear fuel capacity on a ship vs. a reactor?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    What's the scale of the nuclear fuel capacity on a ship vs. a reactor?
    Try reading the thread and responding to the actual subject!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kurmugeon View Post
    Try reading the thread and responding to the actual subject!

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    Oh, sorry - my derp.

    You don't have to be a douchebag about it.
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    Planes sometimes CRASH, and in doing so, often, very often, spread shredded human body parts of a wide area!

    Common Sense says, it is not even close to worth the risk!

    Hell, if anything, send a U.S. Navy Hospital SHIP, with an expert medical staff, and a reduced to minimum crew to the country to load them without sending through the air over other countries or our own.

    Treat them on the ship until cured, and then keep them in testing isolation for 4-6 months.

    The Threat<-->Benefit analysis does not justify any thing else!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kurmugeon View Post
    Lets say that the Chernobyl Reactor accident had happened not on a fixed, ground based power plant, but on a floating Ice Breaker Ship power plant, when the reactor explosion and melt down occurred.

    It is five days into the melt down crisis, and America wants to step up to help... Sooooo, We tow the crippled ship into San Francisco Harbor to effect repairs!

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health...eak/index.html





    Good Freaken GODS!

    Have we utterly lost our minds!

    Send the doctors and medical equipment to them! Do NOT bring them back HERE!

    How many other countries might we infect and destroy, including our own, if an accident occurs during the movement!

    How suicidally stupid is this Administration!

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    Not really a problem unless it goes air bourn , the planets best chance to take a flea dip. BTW, who was screwing around with fruit bats?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Oh, sorry - my derp.

    You don't have to be a douchebag about it.
    Why not? You were.


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    Uh, because proximity does not automatically insure infection, even with Ebola.
    You're relying on a thin piece of sterilized mylar film to stand between the deaths of 450 Million people in North America... and the benefits of bringing them back to Atlanta which are... What exactly?

    What is so important to bring these people back to Atlanta, which is WORTH the risk of the lives of 450 Million People?

    Understand that, in Africa, when it gets loose in a village, it seems to find plenty of opportunity to move around.

    In North America, unlike the situation in most of Africa, people are traveling, Constantly, by Jets, Cars, Buses, Subways...

    If it gets loose in an America City, it will not be at all like what happens when it gets loose in a primitive African Village!

    In a first world, high tech culture, with our forms of transport, it will spread so quickly, NOTHING will stop it!

    You'd be allot better off being in a neighboring African village, 10 miles away, than being in LA, when it got loose in New York City.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Not really a problem unless it goes air bourn , the planets best chance to take a flea dip. BTW, who was screwing around with fruit bats?
    As Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN) described, we all have many tiny, microscopic cuts in our hands. This could allow the Ebola virus, which is even tinier (microscopic), to move about from one person to another. It could be deposited on door knobs and handles, and picked up from them. It could be deposited on chair arms, public restroom faucets or those on drinking fountains, etc. People may soon have to start wearing gloves (but then the gloves could pick it up too)

    This is a lot more tenuous than many people are giving it credit for. I agree with the OP. Foreign diseases should stay just that > foreign. Allowing Ebola into the US is nuts.
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    At least three doctors got Ebola even wearing their hazmat suits.
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