[quote=CA renter][quote=Zeitgeist]”So Ebola is far less contagious than the flu or the cold and there is no reason to worry unless you are in “direct physical contact” with someone who has it. On the other hand, ‘if you’re within 3 feet” of someone who has it, that’s a situation we’d want to be concerned about.’”
“As Gupta noted, CDC itself states that being within approximately 3 feet of an Ebola patient or shaking his or her hand entails ‘some risk.’”
I’d say that decontaminating a chair is not “direct physical contact” with a sick person, too.
Sorry, but they cannot say for sure exactly what is necessary in order to contract this virus. Until we know *for sure,* then we have to assume the worst case scenario, IMO.[/quote]
No, decontaminating a chair is not “direct physical contact.” But that’s not the only way to catch it. If that chair was full of blood (likely if it had and ebola patient in it for some time), that’s another way. A chair full of blood is a long way from a sneeze droplet. And it does take a certain amount of the virus to make it contagious.
Perhaps we have to assume the worst case scenario considering what we DO know about the virus. But to assume the worst possible scenario considering that ANYTHING might be true of this virus is ludicrous. If we assume that it turns into a virus like in the movie outbreak, then we would immediately have to close our borders and take many other steps that could easily ruin the world economy. That would be rather paranoid and unnecessary.
