If the children have been born in camps where this unknown contagion has broken out, I hate to say it, Frank, but you should wait.
Wait at least until we know what sort of illness it is, so we have some way of knowing how to protect against it. These are infants, we're talking about. If you quarantine them, you will have to also quarantine the adult caregivers, as well; in other words, you would have to decide amongst you which of you will risk falling ill with this unknown disease in order to care for the children in isolation. Otherwise, you place all of the children and all of the rest of you at the Sanctuary at risk.
My best advice is what you least wish to hear: you ought to wait until the camps are free of contagion before you remove these children. I understand the risk that they might not survive, but that must be balanced against the much larger risk, that many of you at the Sanctuary might perish.
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Date: 2009-10-14 12:34 pm (UTC)Wait at least until we know what sort of illness it is, so we have some way of knowing how to protect against it. These are infants, we're talking about. If you quarantine them, you will have to also quarantine the adult caregivers, as well; in other words, you would have to decide amongst you which of you will risk falling ill with this unknown disease in order to care for the children in isolation. Otherwise, you place all of the children and all of the rest of you at the Sanctuary at risk.
My best advice is what you least wish to hear: you ought to wait until the camps are free of contagion before you remove these children. I understand the risk that they might not survive, but that must be balanced against the much larger risk, that many of you at the Sanctuary might perish.