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Louisiana bars Ebola researchers from conference
Source: USA Today
Thirty Ebola experts who traveled recently to West Africa, including an official of the World Health Organization, have been banned from attending a New Orleans medical meeting about infectious diseases.
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In a letter to people who registered for the conference, Louisiana officials said they were trying to prevent people at the conference from infecting others with Ebola. Anyone who travels to Louisiana within three weeks of visiting West Africa will be confined to their hotel rooms, the letter says. Ebola has an incubation period of up to 21 days. "We see no utility in you traveling to New Orleans to simply be confined to your room," says the letter, signed by Kathy Kliebert, state secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals, and Kevin Davis, director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
The tropical medicine society says Louisiana's decision has no scientific basis. People with Ebola are not contagious until they begin to show symptoms, such as a fever, and possibly not for two to three days after that, according to an October article in the New England Journal of Medicine. That gives doctors and others plenty of time to isolate themselves, according to the report, written by the journal's editors.
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More than 4,000 experts in infectious diseases are attending the meeting, the world's largest gathering of tropical medicine specialists, to learn the latest science and share ideas for treating patients....
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/05/ebola-doctor-meeting/18526831/
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In a letter to people who registered for the conference, Louisiana officials said they were trying to prevent people at the conference from infecting others with Ebola. Anyone who travels to Louisiana within three weeks of visiting West Africa will be confined to their hotel rooms, the letter says. Ebola has an incubation period of up to 21 days. "We see no utility in you traveling to New Orleans to simply be confined to your room," says the letter, signed by Kathy Kliebert, state secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals, and Kevin Davis, director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
The tropical medicine society says Louisiana's decision has no scientific basis. People with Ebola are not contagious until they begin to show symptoms, such as a fever, and possibly not for two to three days after that, according to an October article in the New England Journal of Medicine. That gives doctors and others plenty of time to isolate themselves, according to the report, written by the journal's editors.
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More than 4,000 experts in infectious diseases are attending the meeting, the world's largest gathering of tropical medicine specialists, to learn the latest science and share ideas for treating patients....
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/05/ebola-doctor-meeting/18526831/
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and militant stupidity of my state.
At least it did. I imagine all the researchers are polishing up their CVs as we speak. 
Media and religion have always played a major role in romanticizing the inequalities of the past, a comforting vision of a bucolic medieval way of life when Might Made Right and rigid, brutal social stratification ruled the lives of everyone, most especially women, in the most intimate and to the liberal mind, horrific as nothing more than vessels to breed cannon fodder.
The media in particular spoon fed illogical sci-fi, not the former kind about uplifting the human race, respect for all to protect our planet. Then they fed a vision of mobsters made attractive to the masses despite the underpinning of destroying the lives of others by enriching a few off the human frailties of those not in their tribe, a cultural acclimatization to fascism - where principles of justice and equality do not prevail, only profit, the most narrow and venal kind are seen as logical.
They sold people fantasies of how the marginalized masses will be used as pawns of the most brutal and corrupt systems of power and made people feel the sight of their huge mansions and luxuries and limos are beautiful things instead of the gross insanity and obscenity they really are. People were desensitized and prepared to accept such backward notions.
This is what the people have been taught and really, media and religion is just a way to waste one's short time on Earth. Those not addicted to entertainment are making things happen in the real world and feeding off the cupidity of those who love their addiction more than their own lives. They, the technocrats, have moved on and left the rest behind as those deserving of no respect because of their choices, of any party or persuasion.
Those with closed hearts and minds, who refused a wider vision, made their choice. The technocrats wanted knowledge and used it for survival of those willing to work for bigger things.
It's not right or wrong. It just is.
Carl Sagan says here:
