Plenty of common sense statements above, even Tony Abbott is against sending our own to West Africa, but now he has been thrown against the wall and it looks like Australia is being forced to send people, who will then return on commercial aircraft. Carrying the virus for anything up to 21 days means that it is likely to be spread to the most unsuspecting victims of all, who will in turn become another vector of transmission, before presenting to hospitals unequipped to prevent nosocomial transfer to staff and other presenting patients at the time of the early presentations. If it became pandemic, then we will be in exactly the same boat as the West Africans of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea...and who knows where else.
Another wake up call to humanity. We are no longer required.
