000646, you have made some valid points which are contrary to other views, but you give them improper priority in the hierarchy of importance. In other words, faulty conclusions.
And if it can be proven HIV was brought to America by a European, how does that in any way mitigate the dreaded origins of HIV in Africa, and it’s subsequent influence in America.
Maybe the European should have been banned from America and who knows how many lives would be spared from HIV.
You need to realize containing disease is not a new thing on the planet earth. Geographic quarantine does work and does save lives. You can’t rewrite the book on epidemiology. Well, you can, but no MD’s would read it.
On an altered lighter note, if someone sitting right behind you in shul lets out big juicy sneezes all morning, it’s all the same to you as if they had to stay home until their cold was no longer contagious?
The idea that Ebola is a dreaded plague in Africa, but in America there is no way it can ever be a problem, is false idea; and life threatening one, as well.