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calimary

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5. Welcome to DU, alfie!

Sun Oct 12, 2014, 04:39 PM

Oct 2014

Glad you're here! Very scary stuff starting to happen with this story. Seems to me the best overall strategy would be - keeping one's head, and not panicking. Being observant and level-headed may be our best bet. And learning as much as you can - knowledge is power and a good antidote for irrationality and hysterics.

Here, too, I keep finding my way back to Mad-Eye Moody in the Harry Potter books. He was a battle-scarred veteran of many wizarding wars, and he warned Harry Potter as often as he could: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!!"

One other thing he often said that has merit here, too: "You've GOT to KNOW!"

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Breaking: Officials Evacuate Braintree, MA Medical Facility, Isolate Patient Citing Ebola Protocol [View all] PAProgressive28 Oct 2014 OP

Please keep us updated. Nt alfie Oct 2014 #1

Welcome to DU, alfie! calimary Oct 2014 #5

build a fence around the state now.nt Dreamer Tatum Oct 2014 #2

agree! quarantines are not being implemented with hopemountain Oct 2014 #8

Good that "they" are looking at travel history and symptoms etherealtruth Oct 2014 #3

&, why are persons not being screened hopemountain Oct 2014 #10

They've been taking histories and temperatures before boarding planes, but just started taking them uppityperson Oct 2014 #12

step by step, inch by inch heaven05 Oct 2014 #4

Yep, I know what you mean and no CT here either. I just wonder if it spreads a lot how well RKP5637 Oct 2014 #6

i doubt it is CT. it is complacency hopemountain Oct 2014 #11

Welcome to DU, PAProgressive28! calimary Oct 2014 #7

The only sane course of action is to halt all travel in and out of MA. Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #9

False alarm, thankfully. morningfog Oct 2014 #13

Sounds like some poor guy went in for headache. LisaL Oct 2014 #14