A highly contagious disease breaks out on a ship you are aboard, do you force the infected overboard or risk infection?
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Another option would be to avoid contact by staying in my room. It's not the most scenic way to spend time on a ship but it might be safer.
I think in our more evolved medical times, heaving the infected overboard seems a bit extreme. In centuries past, perhaps that would have been the time honored tradition. We generally know how diseases are transmitted and there are ways of combatting them besides making people walk the plank.
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If it is fatal and quick, then I would force the infected overboard because I cannot everybody's life for a handful of people. But I would not throw them in sea. I would rather force them to board another vessel which I would call with all medical backup. Then I would keep both the ships in quarantine till disease is cured.
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We all gotta go sometime, and I don't think I would want to live with myself after forcing people overboard, so I would have to risk infection. I would like to go so far as to say that I would be one of those tending to the sick, but it's really hard for anyone to predict how they might react in extremely stressful situations. I've been in situations where my reaction totally surprised myself.
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First of all, if it's contagious, then even people who hasn't exhibited any symptoms might have carried the germs/ virus but it's still in germination period and the symptoms haven't shown themselves. That means, even you, might carry the diseases, but not yet experience anything different yet.
Second, we have such an advanced technology here. Call for help on the radio! The WHO or the closest country near your ship will send medics to check out the situation and help cure the diseases.
Next, we can contain the disease by quarantining the infected people in an area on the ship and have your aboard medics treat them.
Why should we do such a drastic and unnecessary measure just to save our own skin? Could we live with ourselves afterward?
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If it's a modern ship, there's undoubtedly a place, perhaps lower on the ship, where they can be quarantined. If need be, the healthy people can be evacuated onto lifeboats or the like. Doctors, emergency staff, etc. can be called in. They might not be able to save everyone, but it's certainly better than, in effect, killing the sick.
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