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In a test run promising to become the global model for pandemic response, South Africa is recommending that patients infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) be forcibly isolated until they die. "Forced isolation" is framed apologetically, as pitting individual rights against society's rights. However, the real issue is not about the individual versus society - it's about international corporate rights overriding the rights of individuals and society as a whole.
How about this little hypothetical, "what if" this is staged? I'm not meaning the real outbreak that is bad by it self. The way its being reported in the media is almost like the end of humanity. If the government sponcerd media in the US ramps up fear to a certain point will the government enforce a quarantine on the populace. Say restricted travel or house arrest or quarantine centers/camps? I know I know its a homemade conspiracy, but I don't trust the ones in charge no matter which side they lean.
originally posted by: hillbilly4rent
a reply to: Vasa Croe
How about this little hypothetical, "what if" this is staged? I'm not meaning the real outbreak that is bad by it self. The way its being reported in the media is almost like the end of humanity. If the government sponcerd media in the US ramps up fear to a certain point will the government enforce a quarantine on the populace. Say restricted travel or house arrest or quarantine centers/camps? I know I know its a homemade conspiracy, but I don't trust the ones in charge no matter which side they lean.
other thread
At least I know now I'm not as crazy as I thought.
originally posted by: hillbilly4rent
a reply to: stirling
No But you are obviously as crazy as a few here on ATS
Great......
Im thinking its a setup too.....
Reminds me of a slogan from a few years ago "never let a crises go to waste".
originally posted by: Montana
That dang Obama!
First he takes away our AKs and now he takes away our pandemics! A citizen of the US should have every right to contract any communicable respiratory illness he wants to, and the government should keep it's lousy nose out of it!!!!!!
FREEDOM!!!!!
Or in other words, I regard this as one of the few PROPER executive orders in the past 20 years. This is the type of thing I WANT the POTUS to react quickly to.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
....what are they not telling us about that is making this a necessity?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 23,000 people die each year from antibiotic-resistant infections.
“Because of the link between antibiotic use in food-producing animals and the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant infections in humans, antibiotics should be used in food-producing animals only under veterinary oversight and only to manage and treat infectious diseases, not to promote growth,” reads CDC’s report on antibiotic resistance threats, released last September.
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originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: kaylaluv
That is a respiratory-related illness, unlike Ebola, which is NOT a respiratory illness.
Because certain symptoms of Ebola are flu like? Coughing and sneezing can transmit the virus thru the air or deliver it to surfaces that others may come into contact with.
They also mention fever and transmission with high mortality. Ebola definitely comes under that criteria. I wouldn't forget that they won't mention it directly because of fear of generating fear.
The land of secrets about every damn other subject, dont expect that to change much.
Yeah....a freaking presidential executive order changing the original order to cover anyone with respiratory illness.
Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled. This subsection does not apply to influenza.