The Fear Of Ebola At A Stockport School.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2784698/British-school-bans-nine-year-old-Sierra-Leone-parents-feared-classmates-Ebola.html

Taking into consideration the parents demands, were the school right in banning this child from their school?

If your answer is no, then would your answer be any different If you had a child or grandchild at that school?

[douglas9401]

More paedophile/paediatrician type mix ups.

It was a tombola.

[naomi24]

From the link: //'You would have to be in direct contact with someone showing symptoms, caring for them or giving them medical attention. //

From what I understood of a discussion on BBC Radio 4 yesterday, that’s not entirely true. According to that Ebola can be spread by contact with minute amounts of any bodily fluid, and the virus is capable of surviving for days on clothing or on any hard surface. That said, I think the course of action taken here is alarmist and unnecessary.

[pretty_snowdrop]

I haven't read the article fully but I understand he came over from Sierra-Leone last week. On that basis even though I appreciate it's unlikely he will have any virus, who knows? In the circumstances I wouldn't want him in the same classroom as my children.

[TWR]

If there is any indication that someone arriving from that country had this Virus, they should be quarantined at the A/Port of Arrival, are they waiting for this virus to entre before doing something?

[pretty_snowdrop]

^^^^ just read article in full. I would have NO problem with him being near my kids.

[Sqad]

The chances of the child being a threat to other children by spreading the Ebola virus is low.....very low.........but not nil.

Difficult.

I would not want that child who had just arrived from West Africa in the same class as my child.

[youngmafbog]

Well nothing appears to be being done by Governments so fear will take a hold.

I dont think I would want the risk of the child near mine to be honest. You simply do not know one way or another.

[Kromovaracun]

This has a whiff of MMR hysteria to me.

[TWR]

I would call it precaution.

[bazwillrun]

Kills two birds with one stone

no chance of Ebola (better safe than sorry) and the kids dont get to be "brainwashed" into the whole aid for africa bandwagon nonsense...for now anyway

[jim360]

Yes, thousands of Africans are dying from serious diseases for which better treatment facilities would be helpful but are rather too expensive for their relatively poor economies. Of course they don't need aid...

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// Yes, thousands of Africans are dying from serious diseases for which better treatment facilities would be helpful but are rather too expensive for their relatively poor economies. Of course they don't need aid... ///

And haven't they received huge chunks of aid systematically over many, many years, does one dare to ask, would Africa be better off colonised once again?

[jim360]

The aid could and should be spent better and used more wisely. But it shouldn't be stopped.. and we certainly shouldn't colonise Africa once again.

Do you believe what you say, or are you just trying to provoke a reaction?

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// The aid could and should be spent better and used more wisely. But it shouldn't be stopped..///

So we should continue to pile it back in, wasting millions of pounds, that could be put to better use by those who could spend and use it better and more wisely?

/// and we certainly shouldn't colonise Africa once again. ///

And don't you think that the ordinary African person would not benefit more under a western influence than under some of the despots that they have holding them down at present?

/// Do you believe what you say, or are you just trying to provoke a
reaction? ///

Isn't the quest to provoke a reaction what debating is all about?

[bazwillrun]

yes, lets throw aid money at them to cure them of disease or whatever...and then we can throw even more aid money at them to feed them.....

[sp1814]

AOG

You radii de some very valid points, but isn't the most important question - how is this little kid? If he is indeed infected, my best wishes go out to his family - and hope for a speedy recovery.

I assume you feel the same AOG...?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

That of course goes without saying.