So you signed up willing to deal with sticking yourself with a needle, but not willing to treat sick people.
If the medical people all quit medicine because they refuse to treat people who might have Ebola, then they will be responsible for it engulfing everyone, and that goes for all the other sicknesses and diseases that need people who know how to operate hospitals and medicine.
I hope it is just you, and that you don’t infect others with your panic, perhaps you should just stay silent and get out of nursing.
I’m an ICU RN and I think young mothers who are RN’s should be kept well back from the Ebola scourge. Let grizzled 50 somethings males(like myself) or females whose children are grown handle patients with Ebola. I’ll arrange to quarantine myself from my family while such patients are in my care and do what I’m charged to do. I just can’t see myself shrinking back from any patient who has ebola or enterovirus 68d.
I’m just curious, do you expect police officers to just stay on the job and be shot because they signed up for a dangerous profession? There job is to protect and serve but are they just supposed to not protect themselves and fire back?
It seems that is what you are asking health professionals to do. Look at all the health workers who donned PPE and still got infected and died. You said they were cowards essentially and that it would leave “everyone” exposed to catch it. I’m thinking instead of “everyone” you mean you.
The are a large number of health workers posting on the net that if Ebola gets going here they are either going to quit or send there families to relatives. It is not personal fear that drives them it is fear of infecting their family and friends. It is total insanity not to shut down air travel from hot Ebola Zones.