{"id":56560,"date":"2014-11-20T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56560"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:16:53","slug":"so-we-dont-need-ebola-quarantines-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56560","title":{"rendered":"So . . . Ebola Quarantines Are an &#8220;Overreaction&#8221;, Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well then, I guess authorities in India are just &#8220;overreacting&#8221; too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/19\/world\/asia\/india-ebola-semen\/\"><em><strong>India isolates man with Ebola-infected semen<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate fellow contracted Ebola in Liberia.\u00a0 He was lucky &#8211; he was treated there, and survived.<\/p>\n<p><em>That was nearly 2 months ago.\u00a0<\/em> He was released from the hospital in Liberia on 30 September.\u00a0 He returned to New Delhi from Liberia on 10 November.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, body fluids were tested.\u00a0 His semen still contained measurable Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s post-recovery.\u00a0 And we already knew some people carried the virus for a substantial amount of time after recovery, and could still be infectious for months.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t forget, my &#8220;liberal brethren&#8221; &#8211; early tests fairly often provide false negatives, too.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why advanced treatment for latest guy to die in this nation from Ebola was delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Quarantines exist &#8211; and are used &#8211; for a reason.\u00a0 <em>They freaking work.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well then, I guess authorities in India are just &#8220;overreacting&#8221; too: India isolates man with Ebola-infected &hellip; <a title=\"So . . . Ebola Quarantines Are an &#8220;Overreaction&#8221;, Eh?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56560\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So . . . Ebola Quarantines Are an &#8220;Overreaction&#8221;, Eh?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}