Ebola Docs and Nurses Care About Africans, Don’t Care About Americans

FrontPage Mag ^ | 10/29/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[SeekAndFind]

We’re told ad nauseam that the medical personnel who go to Africa are heroes. And that’s fine. I have no objection to them doing their humanitarian thing and then writing a bestselling book about it.

But now that Madam Ebola is in town, it’s hard to miss the fact that these people might care about Africans, but they certainly don’t care about Americans.

The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.

Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.

“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.

Spencer finally ’fessed up when a cop “got on the phone and had to relay questions to him through the Health Department,” a source said.

So he lied. He couldn’t be trusted to self-quarantine which means none of them can be. Meanwhile Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox is continuing her public tantrum and extinguishing whatever media manufactured sympathy the public had for her.

Defiant nurse Kaci Hickox vowed to break a mandatory quarantine order that would keep her inside her Maine home for much of the next three weeks.

Hickox said more appropriate measures would include self-monitoring by taking her temperature twice a day and getting medical attention if she began to show symptoms of Ebola.

“I would go back,” said Hickox. “This has been a bit of a nightmare for me but my work in Sierra Leone for four weeks was amazing and I feel privileged to have been able to help fight this battle. I do plan on going back in fact, it’s not just ‘will I,’ it’s more of a when.”

There’s a stench of egomania to Hickox’s language. She’s willing to compromise the public safety of Americans so she can have her fun while she’s stateside and then go back to Africa to feel “privileged”. For her being told to stay at home is a nightmare, but not the risk of creating an epidemic in this country.

Spencer has already proven that these people cannot be trusted. There’s no reason to trust Kaci Hickox after her obnoxious and thoughtless attitude.

[Biggirl]

Being very selective who their care for.

[BenLurkin]

The guy is supposed to have a fiancé....not sure why he went about as if he was trolling....

[null and void]

They care very much about Americans. They want us dead.

[null and void]

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

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...

[null and void]

The guy is supposed to have a fiancé....not sure why he went about as if he was trolling....

He wants to murder tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans with Ebola, and you expect him to live like a man of honor?

Why is that?

[Sir Napsalot]

Nope, no they don’t.

They (Liberals) do it to FEEL superior to others, not because they care about those Africans.

[MrB]

And that makes them “a good person”...

[MrB]

Libs in general do everything to fuel their sense of sanctimonious self-righteousness.

You’re right, they don’t care nearly as much about helping people as they do about how they feel about themselves for “caring”.

[azishot]

She said she’ll “self-quarantine” for 2 days. When she does go out it’ll be interesting to see what the state does then.

Personally, I hope she’s invited to the white hut for Halloween on Friday.

[Catmom]

I got a degree in community health nursing at the University of Washington back in the 90s and can’t say that the holier than thou attitude of these ebola workers surprises me.

[lightman]

They are medical professionals. /s

[PapaBear3625]

Thomas Sowell, in his book "The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy" talked about this phenomenon. The narcissistic Leftist is focused on "mascots" (those who seem to not be able to care for themselves and need the Leftist Elites to look after them), rather than the "benighted" regular people who neither need nor desire to have their lives run by the elites, and thus do not acknowledge the inner greatness of the elites.

[boycott]

We’ve got a lot of homeless and poor living right here in the USA.

I would guess that a lot of those making the big scene in Africa haven’t done much to help those on our streets. I guess it’s just not as attention getting and glamorous.

The doctor in NY comes across as an attention seeking goofball.

[dhs12345]

Taking someone’s life through negligence negates anything positive from helping others.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: She said she’ll “self-quarantine” for 2 days. When she does go out it’ll be interesting to see what the state does then.

Why not shout “UNCLEAN!!” when you see her and let everybody scatter out of there...

[Gaffer]

I don’t have a problem with selfless volunteerism at all. I have a problem with self adulation and aggrandizement solely because one ‘volunteers’.

Unfortunately, it seems from recent events that volunteerism is also accompanied by inane agendas and what I’d call outright selfishness and delusion that because they can wear a stethoscope or scrubs in a photo, or can tweet about where they spent a WHOLE MONTH [how cruel], the should be above the fray of sanity and caution.

[null and void]

Personally, I hope she’s invited to the white hut for Halloween on Friday.

She can go as Debbie Wasserman-Shultz. She won't even need a costume!

[TurboZamboni]

So the military coming back grom Obalaland had mandatory quarantine, but doo-gooder civlian doctors coming back from Obalaland can ride the subway, go for soup or go bowling.

Only makes sense in an Obamaloon world.

[b4its2late]

They are above it all!