Did that man have Ebola? He was coughing and sneezing.
He Might Have
Contracted Ebola
Let's suppose a large group of Africans walk out of a seaside hotel
where they have just been placed after landing on our Shores and claiming
asylum.
In our proposed case here, they are angrily complaining that the food is
"no good" (it really did happen a few weeks ago in Folkestone just
down the road from my home-town in Kent), and then one of them coughs and
sneezes just as a person walks past.
Our man here is hit in the face with a myriad of microbes but walks on.
Two days later he suffers a headache and detects a sore throat. Fearful he may
have been infected, he phones NHS111.
The NHS Conducts Screening
of the Patient
The NHS asks a series of pointless questions, such as "was the man
who sneezed from an Ebola infected country?" Of-course the potential
patient does not know. But he has wife and children at home, he visits his mum
and dad occasionally and also communicates with colleagues at work.
He's just terrified he might have Ebola and could infect all and sundry
around him, and possibly see his loved ones dying before his eyes.
A SWAT team arrives and takes his blood samples, packs them carefully
and sends them on to the laboratory in Porton Down near Salisbury where the UK
does all its testing for Ebola. After a further seven hours, when a phone call
comes from Salisbury announcing the "all-clear", the man has already
died a thousand deaths through sheer anxiety.
This is probably going to happen to hundreds of thousands of people if Ebola enters
Britain.
Written by D. Alexander
What will happen when Ebola hits the UK?
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