If he did it intentionally, he would have just checked himself into the hospital and told the whole story, I think. Why would he expose his own family members in America to potential (50%) death? That's horrible. Just my take.
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If I was this dude I would stop paying health insurance. They can't stop treating you and you will have teams of doctors trying to look awesome. If they get an attitude, just say you are leaving the hospital and feel like taking a hershey squirt in the drinking water.
I had a slight cough yesterday so naturally I panicked. I was worried and in a frenzy so I called my doctor right away. The good news is he confirmed today I don't have Ebola.
Hope you are right and I am just unnecessarily cynical. It just seems to have an odd fact pattern. But, the fact you laid out doesn't fit with my heinous theory. Does it seem weird that he went to a hospital originally for slight stomach pains and a mild fever?
just logged in to say 1) Why the hell would you travel to a part of Africa with an Ebola outbreak, then decide to hop on a plane to the US? 2) When he realized he was sick, why the heck did he not tell the hospital that he just flew in from Liberia? 3) Why the heck did he come to Texas? He should of quarantined his sorry ass in some other country for 3 weeks and then came back home. Thank God I'm not in Texas now, but most of my immediate family is. Guys like him should be imprisoned if he survives.
2) actually i thought he didn't either, but the newest update is that he told them he came from west africa, and apparently the hospital didn't still let him out
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I doubt he came to the US just to get better treatment. For someone to go from Liberia to Dallas, especially a non US Citizen, isn't like deciding to go from Minneapolis to NY for a weekend. This trip was most likely in the works for months if not years. The US can deny visas and also deny people labeled as persona non grata from entering the country. They could just keep them in the airport, send them back where they came from or even direct airlines and airports in other countries from allowing them to board flights to the US.
if he thought he had ebola when he first went to the hospital do you think he'd just accept that they didn't test him for it and sent him home with antibiotics? i don't think you'd want to risk going home and being sick for a few days if you knew you had ebola.
Except he might've trusted the doctor's opinion and figured if the doctor felt it wasn't something serious then he felt the doctor probably knew better.
The patient is going to be prosecuted when he gets back to Liberia. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29467489
That sounds like a HORRIBLE idea. Seems like it's just going to spread the disease around even more. EDIT: Sorry, I thought you said prostituted.