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21.000 African students arrive and about to arrive within the next fortnight from Africa where Ebola is rampant and out of control.....what is the government doing about this dangerous influx entering the UK?

Seemingly Nothing..

At this point I have no idea.

It is possible to test for the disease but the people travelling would have to go into quarantine for about a week before travelling and be tested during that time. I can't see that happening.

It looks to me like the disease spread outside of Liberia and Guinea is starting to fall with reduced numbers of new cases.

I'd guess that a hell of a lot more people than that, from Africa, come to the UK every month anyway and even more will transit through Heathrow and Gatwick. Remembering that they don't actually have to enter the country to be a threat.

In my opinion, there's far too much travel nowadays.

Visitors from another planet would probably be amazed at all the possibly unnecessary
travel done by Earthlings. For example - at all the millions of people who daily commute
long distances to and from work. It would look like repeatedly disturbing an ants nest.

And why can't African countries build their own Universities? We let too many people
come into our country. I've nothing against foreigners, but the just don't belong here.

Don't bother to try and justify it all - I've heard all the so-called justifications before.
It's just that I've lived in a time when practically everyone went to work on foot or on
bicycle; when an annual holiday was the only time for most people that train travel
happened, and surprise, surprise, I was just as happy then as I am today.

And before WWI 90 % of the people of Britain had never been more than 10 miles from where they were born. People who worked, worked for a pittance and merchants, landowners and lords held 99% of the wealth of the country.

We could go backwards. It's really possible

I'm wondering what kind of job you would get with a degree from backofbeyondinthetreesfirstclassafricanuniversity? Which is why they have always paid very good money to come to the 1st world to get the qualifications which will hold them for life.

It is the way the world is today. 100 miles in the car or on the train is the 1914 workman's trip to the next town to work. Technology adds the speed and distance, but the time is similar. There's no way we're going backwards and we're still stuck between having to go to work and working from home. Another 5 decades before that becomes the norm in my thinking.

Suff wrote: There's no way we're going backwards

That remains to be seen. What happens when Mother Earth's resources have been depleted,
and the human race practically incinerated by a world-wide nuclear war? Will life be worth
living then? Human progress is, I think, a progress towards human annihilation, and the
death throes of planet Earth.

But I won't be here to see it. i'm just lucky to have lived through the best part of human
existence here. God help future generations.

I've thought those depressing thoughts myself on a number of occasions Aggers - probably due to age. I sometimes think back to other times when we all had a lot less but somehow life was less stressful and people were happy and content. Even the 'State' seemed more tolerant and even handed than it is today.

Thanks, Medsec.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one, !!!

Aggers wrote:Thanks, Medsec.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one, !!!

In most things "we are birds of a feather.

That's why we flock together.

USAtoday reports current Ebola epidemic as the "perfect storm".

American CDC fears that the strain is getting stronger over time.

Liberian cases are said to be rising exponentially.

WHO says it is spreading faster than our capability to manage it and that there is a shortage of equipment (field hospitals) drugs and personnel to manage it.

We might not be there yet, but there will come a time when we do have to quarantine people coming in from Africa and also to lock-in areas where the virus is known to be active. It was done with smallpox and in earlier times, leprosy.