Should This Ebola Patient Be Treated In London?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ebola-outbreak-british-patient-with-deadly-disease-could-be-treated-in-uk-hospital-9687682.html

[sp1814]

AOG

What do you think about the Briton coming back for treatment?

Do you think he/she should be allowed back in the country (even under strict quarantine conditions), or not?

[sp1814]

AOG

You know when you're asking a technical question, there is a right answer answer?

For instance:

Should I follow links from unsolicited emails which send me to websites that ask me for my bank account details.

Answer: No

However, that's different from:

What's the best anti-virus software for a PC running Windows XP.

That question can result in a number of opinions.

What we are asking, over and over and over, is what *your* opinion is?

Okay...if you don't want to share your thoughts, at least do us the courtesy of letting us know *why*.

[anneasquith]

the patient is on his way to the royal free hospital now ( sky news )

[sp1814]

divebuddy

I think you're wrong.

I think we're all concerned about AOG, because his behaviour is a little...erratic today.

I can't make sense of what he wants here.

I'm thinking that he wants a debate, and wants to challenge our views, but in order to deflect any counter-argument, he's keeping quiet about what he thinks.

It's genuinely troubling, and a little scary - like when a favourite grandparent starts wearing a bra on her head, claiming that she's Biggles.

[Zacs-Master]

Sp. if you look at AOG's best answer, his position is clear.

[EcclesCake]

I don't know the full story on the individual.

However, as someone who often travels against Government advice and renders insurance policies useless I take the consequences on board.

If I contract a disease after a GTFO has been issued then I take the consequences squarely on my shoulders and would not expect a rescue mission.

[anotheoldgit]

divebuddy

Thanks for your support, Buddy.

There may not be many of us on AB, so really that should put us in a 'minority' group, so with a little luck we will soon become a protected species.

[sp1814]

Zac-Master

I see, but I would be interested to hear AOG's take on the story, rather than just a reflection of someone else's views.

After various attempts to get back to the original question (after detours to foreign nationals and bizarrely, pregnant health tourists), it would have been refreshing to actually hear a response to our points about this Briton.

However, I very much doubt it will happen now.

I suspect that this thread will, 'go ghost'.

Pity - it could have been interesting.

I wish some of the more 'rightward thinking' members of AB would do everyone the decency of following New Judge's example of argument and counter argument. NJ is like the world's best knife sharpener. Debating with him - you have to bring your best game...

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Why am I so special that you need to know what my answer is to my own question?

Perhaps a better strategy would have been for you or all the other complainants to have got in with the question first, then perhaps (and only perhaps) you may have attracted my attention enough to answer it.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT are you saying you have never asked a question without giving your own viewpoint too in the original posting or very soon afterwards?

[Zacs-Master]

AOG, you're doing exactly the same here as on your Notting Hill Carnival thread and it's wearing a bit thin (with me anyway).

[DTCwordfan]

Centrist, actually, AOG - old fashioned wet-conservatism in fact. So I'll attack left wing shi-ite as much as I do some of the ultra right rhetoric that spews out around your posts. On the former, ask gromit......

[sp1814]

AOG

Because this is a debate.

You're not asking, "When does Downton Abbey start this year" or "What was the name of Elvis' last UK number one"?

You have opened up a debate, but refuse to get drawn on the question you raised.

Did you see my Question Time analogy?

That's what you're doing.

It's odd.

And no-one else on AB does it.

Really...it's unique to you.

If you don't want to say what your position is, that's fine. Just say so and I will leave it alone.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// I wish some of the more 'rightward thinking' members of AB would do everyone the decency of following New Judge's example of argument and counter argument. NJ is like the world's best knife sharpener. Debating with him - you have to bring your best game...///

Yes a little flattery might get the Judge to forget what you said to him over his "being born in a stable" comment.

[Answerprancer]

Here we go again, Corbyloon is not being "rude".
To you (and many have said this) anyone who challenges you is rude, I've said this many times before but one more time won't hurt: YOU are no stranger to being rude, and don't go moaning that you are only rude if someone was rude to you first.

[ChillDoubt]

He's on his way regardless:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28919831

[Zacs-Master]

For example ^^^
Calling me a Clown in your NHC thread.

[DTCwordfan]

take that as a compliment, zacs.....I would!

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Pity - it could have been interesting. ///

So you don't think it was interesting enough?

You yourself has so far contributed 18 posts on it, so obviously you are not the least bored.