Lepew1

How much consumer information is being gathered from radio listeners by apps like I Heart Radio?

NPR did a piece on Firestone stopping Ebola in Harbel, Liberia. The CDC attributed its success to:

Dr. Flannery of the CDC says a key reason for Firestone's success is the close monitoring of people who have potentially been exposed to the virus — and the moving of anyone who has had contact with an Ebola patient into voluntary quarantine.

Impoverished Nigeria has been cited as a success story in combating the spread of Ebola, and a model for the rest of Africa. The key to the success?

Health officials used a variety of resources, including phone records and flight manifests, to track down nearly 900 people who might have been exposed to the virus via Sawyer or the people he infected. That group was monitored for symptoms for 21 days. Those under observation were required to check in with officials twice a day to provide health updates, according to The Independent.

If someone was showing symptoms or failed to provide an update, that person was checked on.

As soon as people developed symptoms suggestive of Ebola, they were isolated in Ebola treatment facilities. Without waiting to see whether a "suspected" case tested positive, Nigeria's contact tracing team tracked down everyone who had had contact with that patient since the onset of symptoms.

During this contact tracing process, officials made a staggering 18,500 face-to-face visits.

The common thread I see between these is aggressive quarantine and monitoring. What barriers are preventing these approaches in Liberia, and do you think perhaps a more aggressive monitoring and quarantine is warranted in Western countries upon the basis of these success stories?

What are the most common causes of radicalization, and what can we do to thwart radicalization?

Does the fact that the erosion of checks and balances upon executive power has been gradual make the erosion any less alarming?

Can you explain the whole Maobama thing? All of those shirts with Mao and Obama?