Another US Ebola Case
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It's getting very real around here (the ebola threat, that is). A family in the town where I live has officially been isolated for 21 days because the dad was on a plane and potentially exposed to one of those who now has ebola.
I realize there have not been that many confirmed cases, but it is a bit scary nonetheless.
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@NetworkNerd said:
It's getting very real around here (the ebola threat, that is). A family in the town where I live has officially been isolated for 21 days because the dad was on a plane and potentially exposed to one of those who now has ebola.
I realize there have not been that many confirmed cases, but it is a bit scary nonetheless.
They isolate people who rode on the plane but don't stop people that they know were exposed from riding planes in the place? That's insane. Only Texas would let the exposed nurse travel but quarantine the innocent people who were on the plane.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NetworkNerd said:
It's getting very real around here (the ebola threat, that is). A family in the town where I live has officially been isolated for 21 days because the dad was on a plane and potentially exposed to one of those who now has ebola.
I realize there have not been that many confirmed cases, but it is a bit scary nonetheless.
They isolate people who rode on the plane but don't stop people that they know were exposed from riding planes in the place? That's insane. Only Texas would let the exposed nurse travel but quarantine the innocent people who were on the plane.
yeah, just heard that on the news..........so let's move Ebola to densely populated cities.........
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@Hubtech turns out it was Cleveland and the CDC that let her fly knowing that she had a fever.
This really shows how bad healthcare is in America. A trained, certified medical professional knew that she was exposed to ebola and knew that she had a fever and the CDC representative knew that she had a fever and maybe knew about the exposure and one decided to try to fly while being a risk and the other let her fly while being a risk. These aren't random people making uninformed decisions, these are the trained professionals that we trust to know how to stop ebola that are making these mistakes or willing to put people at risk!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech turns out it was Cleveland and the CDC that let her fly knowing that she had a fever.
This really shows how bad healthcare is in America. A trained, certified medical professional knew that she was exposed to ebola and knew that she had a fever and the CDC representative knew that she had a fever and maybe knew about the exposure and one decided to try to fly while being a risk and the other let her fly while being a risk. These aren't random people making uninformed decisions, these are the trained professionals that we trust to know how to stop ebola that are making these mistakes or willing to put people at risk!
Could it be (and this isn't intended to be political) that because government agencies think that they are "law" or ran by the government, that laziness and incompetence takes over? Compliancy perhaps? From FEMA and Katrina, to the VA, and now the CDC...do we really want them running healthcare?
I had a state job for 10 years...'nuff said...LOL
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech turns out it was Cleveland and the CDC that let her fly knowing that she had a fever.
This really shows how bad healthcare is in America. A trained, certified medical professional knew that she was exposed to ebola and knew that she had a fever and the CDC representative knew that she had a fever and maybe knew about the exposure and one decided to try to fly while being a risk and the other let her fly while being a risk. These aren't random people making uninformed decisions, these are the trained professionals that we trust to know how to stop ebola that are making these mistakes or willing to put people at risk!
Correct. girl knew what she was doing. could this be a new type of warfare?
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@garak0410 said:
Could it be that because government agencies ...that laziness and incompetence takes over?
FTFY. And yes.
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Now they are moving the first nurse to Maryland! These people are freaking idiots!!
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And thus it begins.... Connecticut next?
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Why are we continuing to allow people to come into the country from Liberia?!?! What is wrong with this picture?
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The Sci-Fi geek in me wants to think there are some Orwellian things going on...
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Something ridiculous is definitely going on.
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Either something insidious is going on, a massive breakdown of the CDC or we are just getting too much news and overacting to every little bit of Ebola news....or a little of all three...
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Or complete incompetence.
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I don't think that there can be an overreaction to new Ebola news. Most people that get it, die, and not an easy death, a horrid one. I'm not sure I believe that it's "hard to catch", but I'm pretty sure we are going to find out how true that really is in the next month.
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I just read the full article, and the 2 students who went to Liberia voluntarily isolated themselves upon their return. That's the responsible thing to have done. Also, Connecticut is going to enforce that anyone who has been to an affected country has to be isolated for 21 days when they return, whether or not they were around people with Ebola. That's more like it.
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@Dominica much smarter. You realize if the rest of the world did that, that everyone coming from the US would be quarantined? Imagine how tough that would be. The small amount of Liberian traffic is easy to lock down for a little bit. But every US business person and tourist globally would be a massive strain on the world economy.
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