For his sake and all others, I hope he is clean. At least he is waiting to find out.
I read of another doctor who has quarantined himself in Vancouver, BC. He also traveled back to North America on a commercial flight.
I thought his obligation was to first do no harm. Flew on how many planes and rode in a car with his own daughter.
This is wrong in so many ways.
And not to get alarmist or anything, tinfoil or no, but Obama issued and executive order giving him total power in case of war or natural disaster — I think an ebola outbreak would qualify.
Obama’s Executive Order Authorizes Peacetime Martial Law
March 18, 2012
“In fact, the specific sections of the order make it clear that the President may take complete command and control of the country’s natural resources in peacetime, as well.
The last line of the quoted material gives the President of the United Staes the power to “control the general distribution of any material (including services) in the civilian market.” This seems to be no less than the nationalization of all food, energy, water, and healthcare pipelines and providers in the country. And to help him keep tabs on all this responsibility, he assigns a cabinet member to each category of control.”
Aren’t they wonderful? So selfless and heroic.
Same with those who tell us all to be as selfless as democrats and allow the border invasion without taking kids in, hundreds of thousands of them, into their homes. Not even one.
They give up OUR health and well being because they are so selfless, but it is our children, our country we are trying to care for.
Why didn’t these people just stay in Liberia if they are so heroic?
Horrible horrible stupidity
the daughter, however, is out and about.
What a horrible situation.
Couldn’t he have done that in a small hotel on the outskirts of town in Africa?
Why are so many Ebola health-care workers dying from the virus?
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/2/5960449/why-are-many-ebola-outbreak-health-workers-doctors-dying-virus
“Exactly how are health professionals getting infected?
No one knows at this point. There was some speculation on the exact method of transmission at the CDC. But a WHO spokesperson told Vox “it’s a bit of a mystery” right now. “There have obviously been lapses somewhere in how the doctors and nurses have protected themselves and we don’t know if it’s clinics that they’re working in or elsewhere.”
Since the virus requires only 1 to 10 virons to cause the disease . The patients are probably contagious early in the symptomatic phase.
If they dealt with Ebola like climate change threat
What an idiot this guy is.
Pure stupidity to even come back and THEN quarantine yourself especially after coming into contact with hundreds of people. Stupid.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
These bleeding heart do-gooders are going to get us all killed.
And his daughters? Are they in voluntary quarantine? And the people on the plane with him? What a jerk. I’ll bet the ‘do no harm’ doctor is a liberal narcissistic fool.
“The horses are out of the barn, but hey, let me just close this here gate.”
Oh...my.
Lets say 150 people on the plane he returned to the US on. If every one of those had contact with just two other people it would be 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400....Just glad it is summer vacation right now. This breaks out come Sept (not sure if school starts earlier in TN)we have a major situation.
Gee, I wonder how that convo went when he called the daughter to pick him up at the airport....