Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
Read the link at post 191.
BINGO! Just because they are missionaries doesn't mean they were not glory seekers. Their missionary work failed because you can't treat people when you come down with the same Ebola disease despite taking all the precautions. And now the taxpayers have to bail you out from your reckless adventure in Ebola-land. Millions will be spent on transporting them to Emory University and treating them. CDC gets to have new Ebola research and treatment wings built....
Scorecard is:
CDC-----------------------------winning
Taxpayers------------------------losing
Two misguided missionaries-------losing
But this Dr. is from here so he should have had better practices, no?
Yes and his family flew back here on a commercial flight. I have to question what this doc was thinking having his family over there. As a nurse I can tell you if I were over there working with Ebola patients there is no way in he’ll I would want my family anywhere near there.
Pray this family wasn’t infected. For their sakes and ours.
Well he brought his family to Africa with him so what does that about him?
Let’s Try to stay on topic and not talk about dreamland fantasy kidnapping of family members.
The bottom line is a medical professional knew the risks came down with Ebola and should not have been brought back to the states with active disease.
I suspect that the WHO is wrong and that people infected with Ebola shed viral particles before they become symptomatic . The infected doctor hugged or touched his coworkers when he met them and probably became infected before they actually started to show symptoms.
The fool made a personal decision to expose himself and his colleagues to a deadly virus that has a 90 percent mortality rate ... OK, that is his choice ... But he should accept the consequences of his “Christian charity” ... and not put at risk an entire continent to exposure of something that none of its population has even the slightest immunity to.
I am so sick of these “compassion” pimps. If this doctor had the guts to go into the “hot zone” of some stinking African hell hole, where bestiality and and homosexual sodomy are rampant, then he should have the guts to remain there and face the consequences. Tough luck, pal ... you knew the risk, and you chose to go anyway. The rest of us did not volunteer to become “martyrs” for your misinformed ideas of “charity.”
Thanks for joining the conversation - who took his family to Africa?
At least I admit that my scenario is a "what-if" and that my hopes about how I would act do not constitute that I would indeed act that way.
We never got around to it due to the back-and-forth, but I tend to agree that we should consider all risks before bringing someone back - I just don't believe we should do a blanket condemnation to those who, knowing the risks, still tried to do something for their fellow humans despite the risks. While they knew there were risks, it wasn't considered a suicide mission and we do have very good methods available to allow pretty safe transport of some selected few folks - it's not like we just load them up on public transport, surround them with healthy folks, and hope for the best. Per the multitude of stories, we seem to have some of the best possible facilities and folks to treat and contain. I feel safer with them staying away, but I wouldn't want to make the call without having all the facts.
I apologize for my demeanor in the previous posts - it served no good purpose.
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