Does that lady have grounds to sue the airline? Seems like the flight attendants went a little overboard.
new footage of pham https://gma.yahoo.com/ebola-nurse-n...ip-dallas-122900650--abc-news-topstories.html I feel so bad for her. It makes me angry that CDC and the hospital screwed this up big time. she was just doing her job. as for Vinson, poor lady is being made out to be the villain...CDC prob told her it was okay to fly and she went ahead thinking it was ok. Stupid, maybe but you can't really blame her IF CDC said it was OK.
That's the same kind of idiocy that Gov. "GoodHair" is spouting. You and him (and others) really think travelers from Liberia or Sierra Leone (or other African nations that have dealt with the crisis) are all coming to the US on direct flights? Lots of connecting f lights in London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, etc. What is needed is 1. Pressure to be put on governments in the countries hit the harders(Liberia, Liberia, Liberia) to (ideally open more facilities to treat people) monitor those exiting the country and their final destinations. (I believe Thermometers are already in use in the airports ALL over Africa). 2. Put pressure on those in contact with Ebola patients to self quarantine themselves and not be stupid, ignorant and selfish. 3. This is more for Rick Perry since he wants ban on travel to/from countries dealing with Ebola, and it's connected to #1 in a way. Guess which airports currently check travelers for it? DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Newark, JFK. How is there nothing setup at DFW or Houston Bush??? The major international airports at two cities that get a lot of travelers to and from African countries(via European airlines and major European cities). That's what the Governor should be trying to push through first, not a ban on travel/travelers. The quarantine station/thermometer screening should have been in place at the major US airports the month that Ebola spread to other nations outside of Liberia. The US government and the CDC were slow to react and are still slow as we can see. My 0.01 cent.
Watch the oversight committee with all of the doctors. You can bag on perry all you want, ALL of those morons wanted this. They actually have that power unlike perry. So redirect your rage.
The thing is that she never directly called the CDC. She called the hospital in Dallas, who then contacted CDC on her behalf, and called her back with the OK. So, in reality, Amber Vinson never talked to the CDC directly. She still made a phone call, but if she felt concerned enough to MAKE that phone call, then she should have felt concerned enough to NOT get on that plane.
That's an idiotic response. If I'm not sure if I should be legally doing something and I call the Supreme Court and they tell me it's okay then you can't blame me for doing it. It's not an ethics issue either because if she was cleared to travel, ethically she didn't think she was putting anyone in danger.
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I'll join the pile. If she called for guidance (hospital or CDC, they're both good enough for me) and followed their advice, you can't fault her. If the policy really was that she shouldn't be on a commercial airliner regardless, why'd she get a green light? Seems like the CDC breached protocol.
worst case...vinson gets on the plane knowing that she could possibly: a.) be sick b.) be contagious c.) could infect one or more people d.) could cause everyone on plane to be quarantined/isolated for the two week period or whatever absent any actual enforcement of protocols on what exposed patients can and can't do to ensure they are doing those things, then people like her are left to basically make a judgement call on their own. the real problem here is what the CDC and whomever is saying about how these exposed people should be isolated, not use public transportation, etc. . yet, these people are running around getting on commercial airliners and cruise ships. there is a total lack of enforcement of what they are stating should have happened publicly. it seems there is plenty of blame to go around. they better hope other people didn't get affected by these folks...or we can expect more fallout. the ball was dropped. i don't think anyone is saying it wasn't. it just shows how unprepared this country is for something like this to happen here...the fact that you got exposed people running around when they are supposed to be isolating themselves. i guess all that can be done is to learn from it, correct it, and move on. i'm sure congressional hearings will be on the horizon where they can start pointing fingers and the blame game. i take it there is not a no-fly or travel ban list for exposed people to deadly viruses. if we can put together a list of terrorists to prevent them from traveling, then it seems like we could put one together for this. otherwise...what? are we going to put a cop outside each exposed person's home to watch them 24 hours a day? if you leave it to the exposed person to make the call, then their not going to make the right call a lot of the time because their own biases and opinions come into play.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abby-...ospi_b_5998486.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 article on how it is supposed to be when dealing with containment..
