[Livia]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

I didn't know that That's terrible, no such policy should exist......

The policy doesn't exist anymore Ruby. It goes back 100 years and was dismantled in the 40s. It's law in Australia that race will not be considered when someone wants to enter the country.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

lol did u see what fox news were saying - "THIS IS WHY WEST AFRICANS SHOULDNT HAVE COME TO AMERICA!!"

did they actually say that? do you have proof?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

The policy doesn't exist anymore Ruby. It goes back 100 years and was dismantled in the 40s. It's law in Australia that race will not be considered when someone wants to enter the country.

You mean lostalex was spouting OTT off topic nonsense?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

You mean lostalex was spouting OTT off topic nonsense?

In a nutshell...

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

Mmmmmm.....don't see where i was blaming the NHS, the NHS is pretty much on it's knees now, all it would take to bring it down is an epidemic and that's when our government would take action, which in my opinion would be too late.

The media would have you believe this to aid the backdoor privatisation, but it isn't true.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

It seems such a straightforward way of preventing the virus from spreading, why are other countries pussyfooting around it

Fear of being called racist, I assume

[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

did they actually say that? do you have proof?

It's on youtube somewhere.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Fear of being called racist, I assume

We can all die from an epidemic but as long as we're seen as politically correct it's all good.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

did they actually say that? do you have proof?

Youtube video

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Youtube video

hahaha! omg that made me lol

but yeah, thats ONE sentence and probably taken out of context

I very much doubt he wants africans banished from america foreves

as already mentioned, I don't think its racist to stop letting people in/or putting them in quarantine for a short while.

so many people slate fox news (i'm not really a fan myself) but i dont think its anywhere near as bad as people let on

[rubymoo]

Originally Posted by Livia

The policy doesn't exist anymore Ruby. It goes back 100 years and was dismantled in the 40s. It's law in Australia that race will not be considered when someone wants to enter the country.

That's good to know, i have relatives in Australia and thought it was weird that i'd never heard of this policy

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

hahaha! omg that made me lol

but yeah, thats ONE sentence and probably taken out of context

I very much doubt he wants africans banished from america foreves

as already mentioned, I don't think its racist to stop letting people in/or putting them in quarantine for a short while.

so many people slate fox news (i'm not really a fan myself) but i dont think its anywhere near as bad as people let on

Having watched quite a bit of it I can well believe he meant it. Especially when Ann Coulter is on there. Raving lunatics.

[rubymoo]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

The media would have you believe this to aid the backdoor privatisation, but it isn't true.

I certainly hope the NHS is never privatised, many of us would be thrust back into the Victorian age

My thoughts are that we should be doing something now about Ebola and be putting proper contingencies in place, rather than to leave it until we are facing Ebola in our already stretched NHS hospitals, a questionnaire just doesn't cut it for me.

[rubymoo]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

We can all die from an epidemic but as long as we're seen as politically correct it's all good.

[Shaun]

It should've immediately been done from the start, really.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Having watched quite a bit of it I can well believe he meant it. Especially when Ann Coulter is on there. Raving lunatics.

meh, maybe he did. You do get some crazies on that channel. At least you've actually watched and made your own opinion, rather than listening to what other people have said

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

I certainly hope the NHS is never privatised, many of us would be thrust back into the Victorian age

My thoughts are that we should be doing something now about Ebola and be putting proper contingencies in place, rather than to leave it until we are facing Ebola in our already stretched NHS hospitals, a questionnaire just doesn't cut it for me.

'Ebola is a risk the UK can defend against locally
Emergency services, NHS and border staff have been meeting at local resilience forums to identify Ebola risks and to lay plans that will contain any outbreak'

There are contingencies in place, other than prohibiting people in from certain areas there's really nothing else we can do.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...-ebola-locally

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

People are now using Ebola to blackmail people

Some people have threatened to release Ebola in Prague if the government doesn't pay 1 Million Euros or some ting.

[bots]

There is really nothing new in this at all, health control restrictions have been in place for many diseases for a long time - in many countries. For example, people from those counties with a significant Malaria risk have to prove that they have had immunization injections before being allowed in to many countries to stop the spread of Malaria.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

We can all die from an epidemic but as long as we're seen as politically correct it's all good.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

People are now using Ebola to blackmail people

Some people have threatened to release Ebola in Prague if the government doesn't pay 1 Million Euros or some ting.

It was only a matter of time

[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

We can all die from an epidemic but as long as we're seen as politically correct it's all good.

We aren't going to die though. Our government hasn't banned west africans from entering the country, and we still have no ebola cases. Screening is enough tbh.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

We aren't going to die though. Our government hasn't banned west africans from entering the country, and we still have no ebola cases. Screening is enough tbh.

yet

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Livia

I'm guessing once we've had a couple of serious outbreaks here that come from West Africans we've had tick some boxes on a questionnaire at the airport, the Australian approach will seem a bit more sensible suddenly. If ebola was rife in, say, Norway, I'd want to see temporary visas revoked and 21 day quarantines. It's got nothing to do with what colour people are.

You always speak such common sense.

Real prevention is better than PC correct BS.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

People are now using Ebola to blackmail people

Some people have threatened to release Ebola in Prague if the government doesn't pay 1 Million Euros or some ting.

we tried to use this to get gaga to invite us on stage

but we had more of a 'Gaga, we have Ebola, please let us on stage' plea... it didnt end up too well