Breaking Ebola Story: Air France Jet Stranded At Madrid

[ChillDoubt]

apparently a passenger has displayed ebola-like symptoms.
Unsure if it's actually on the tarmac but if so I should imagine it'll be a living hell inside the cabin and it's difficult to see how they'll deal with it.
Keep everyone on board, or release them ASAP?

[BlackadderV]

I also remember the Asian Flu epidemic of 1957.

[ChillDoubt]

Who recalls this? A bit prophetic!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPKk204nOTk

[Hypognosis]

@Chill

//As ever, there is no known cure for stupidity.//

It would be drastic therapy but I am pretty sure that Ebola would cure it.








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[Hypognosis]

@CD

That was a seminal series although possibly not an original idea in that post-apocalyptic scenarios had been done before ("The day of the Trifids" and others).

Twelve Monkeys put a twist on the genre, in making it a deliberate act.

This current situation puts the passengers in the unenviable position of being handled as if they were 'involuntary terrorists'.

[tamborine]

Were risking lives of our 91 medics. How many other countries are offering their medics?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29640090

[Rosetta]

Dont the airlines have a duty of care to their staff. If I was cabin crew I would sure as h*ell not want to work on routes to the infected areas

[EDDIE51]

^^ what about the airport staff checking passengers for ebola?
Would you want to check the passport of a sweaty passenger from West Africa?

[ummmm]

Stewey and Blackadder - people weren't jet setting all over the world then.

[ChillDoubt]

As has just been asked on Sky News, at the start of this video in the link, just what the funk is the guy with no protective clothing doing? Does he possess a forcefield of some kind?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29640470

Only in America! And they're wondering how mistakes have been made with the other cases they have? Sheesh!

[stuey]

That's true, Ummmm. Imagine how much worse it would have been if they were. Without all the gallivanting around 50 million people still died.

[Hypognosis]

@stuey,

1919 'flu killed more people than WWI itself. Weirdly, I didn't get to hear of it until late teens/early 20s. It's the sort of thing you only find out from the media though - not exactly a good conversation topic.

I din't recall why I was reading a Wikepedia page about Lourdes but one of the original child witnesses died in the epidemic. Ironic, if that was because of a tourist, visiting the site of the miracle. :-/