I think having just seen a family member or friend die, knowing he's likely infected after trying to help, demonstrating some form of bravery that 95% of the world would likely not, his decision while unfortunate for the rest of the world would have been very rationale and life saving for himself, if indeed that's how it played out. I'd say that 90% of us look out for ourselves at the exact moment of death. And that only with time and reflection could one make a rationale decision to consider the lives of people outside their inner circle knowing that they had been infected. And what makes it even more rationale is that the likelihood of spreading it in Liberia is probably a lot less than the likelihood of it spreading the usa. So technically, you could raionalize that his move was the better choice for the world ( Although certainly unfortuante for the usa ). He likely put less people in danger. All of that assumes he was thinking on some level that he might be infected. but based on his movements, that would not seem to be the case. It seems he though he was ok and not a risk, or just ignorant of the risk.
Texas officials seem to be fairly incompetent: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/us/dallas-ebola-case-thomas-duncan-contacts.html Didn't appear to bother to clean the apartment where the infected patient was staying, despite quarantining the other family members inside.
Hmm. I'm not as confident and optimistic about the US healthcare system and government limiting an ebola outbreak here to the degree some in the media have reported (we are thoroughly prepared to deal with ebola, not a problem for us').
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>American journalist in Liberia tests positive for Ebola <a href="http://t.co/kRoD8ziEfm">http://t.co/kRoD8ziEfm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash">#BREAKING</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ABC13?src=hash">#ABC13</a></p>— Houston News (@abc13houston) <a href="https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/517842933060739072">October 3, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
It seems to me he claims Ebola is fake and a "liberal" and "big government" conspiracy to use the disease as an excuse to seize more power. Doesn't sound that dissimilar to West Africans claiming that Ebola is an American/white conspiracy against Africans....
I assumed that people knew what the hell they were doing, since this has been publicized for a few months now. How can a nurse send someone home? How can you not disinfect and quarantine all the people/places involved?
triage nurse didn't communicate to the med team that he was in Liberia. Maybe she didn't connect Liberia to Africa..who knows. Anyhow, serious jackup at the point where it could have been contained. Everything else is just dumb.
highly likely she either confused it w/ Libya, or has no idea where Liberia is. we are a geographically ignorant nation, smh.
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We can't shut down air travel from an entire region because a microscopic percent of people have a disease, that is overall really hard to catch.
It's a small West African country that was founded by freed American slaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia
We're also apparently an illiterate nation. Reading the article would have helped you substantially here. It clearly stated that the info was communicated properly, but that the ER system they used didn't transfer it to the doctor's report.
If this case doesn't spread, we will be extremely lucky. Whoever is in charge of this is horrible. Seriously - either the CDC needs to take over, or if they already have, they need a major kick in the a--. People were visiting the apartment after the dude went to the hospital (the second time), residents were coming and going? And they STILL haven't cleaned the apartment? They are now quarantined in an apartment teeming with ebola covered sheets, clothes and towels? WTF is wrong with the people running this? Until they clean up the apartment, they need to keep restarting the 21 day quarantine clock.
