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Originally Posted by kirklancaster

I am not 'politicising' this issue, nor 'arm flailing', nor proffering 'pointless' 'silly hypotheticals' with 'bizarre scenarios', I am expressing my opinion, and in my opinion, the Australian stance is the only logical position when dealing with a disease as highly infectious and dangerous as the Ebola Virus Disease.

We are talking here of a disease which is highly contagious (whether it can or cannot be spread by air is not even universally agreed by ‘experts’.) extremely difficult to diagnose, can incubate for up to 21 days, and has no known cure. This being so; I will reiterate, that voluntary completion of a Questionnaire as an adequate preventative measure is total nonsense, and so typical of a British Government's political complacency.

I remember the BSE (Mad Cow) disease outbreak and the human variant CJD in the early 1980's. The - then Government - played down the risk and failed to seriously address the issue, resulting in a tragedy which took nearly 300 lives, cost the British taxpayer tens of billions of pounds, and seriously undermined our economy (though it took a 15 year long very expensive independent enquiry for the British Government to finally admit that “the failures of successive administrations had contributed to the BSE catastrophe”.)

Voluntary completion of a ‘questionnaire’ is wholly reliant on human integrity, yet I also remember the tragic consequences of a lax Government relying too much on that same human integrity during the BSE/CJD crisis referred to, when certain farmers who had been given a certificate that their cattle were BSE-Free, then secretly bought up dead infected beasts from other farms at rock bottom prices and sold these on to meat processing companies as ‘Government Certified BSE Free-Beef’.

Just how many of the 270 + innocent people who died from CJD, did so as a direct result of eating contaminated beef joints or beefburgers because of this practice is unknown, but it is perfectly reasonable to assume that some did.

And that is my point; just one solitary death in the UK from the Ebola Virus Disease which could have been prevented by the proper implementation of a realistic policy akin to the Australian one, is unforgiveable and bordering on criminal culpability on the part of the British Government.

One solitary fatality may just be a statistic, a small headline, but the heartbreak and grief behind it for the family and friends of the dead Man/Woman/Child is only too real, and if it can be prevented by following the Australian policy then I say to hell with ‘Political Correctness’. If it was one of my loved ones I would want blood.

In my opinion, people who refuse to accept the very real risk of this disease and therefore the logical need for the implementation of realistic preventative measures, ought to take off their ‘rose tinted glasses’, and similarly, it is the people who read ‘racism’ and ‘colour prejudice’ into those very measures who are actually the one's ‘politicising’ this issue.

Incidentally, I am half-caste ( a beautiful tanned colour) myself, so if I do not see any racism or colour prejudice in such measures, I cannot understand why anyone else would, because race, nationality, or colour has got nothing to do with it – just logic.

Yes you are politicising it with your constant referrals to things in your opinion being 'politically correct'.
It is not the 'only' logical stance as we are taking a stance too which is logical. I don't need your ebola summary as I'm aware of the potential risks which are very low..
Perceived failings in the handling of BSE or human variant CJD has little or no baring here as there is no similarity in the issues at all, nor does the fact you're mixed race.