” - Risking the lives of his children to make a point? You applaud that? -”
What we have here is a bunch of morons. All we are hearing is invective.
No one yet knows how this is transmitted and yet all of you are getting very agitated over what we do not know.
By the end of this month, in time for the November election we will know much more.
That's right. No one knows. You obviously have no fear of the unknown. You even applaud people who take deadly risks with the lives of their children.
Please DanZ think about this.
The fellow had 50+ people looking after him in an isolation ward where we have been assured all precautions have been taken and yet a nurse now has it. One man, one room, fifty people. And the couldn’t stop one of their own from getting infected.
What happens if it gets to 100 people?
Well they don’t have 100 isolation chambers/rooms.
They don’t have 5000 doctors and nurses to dedicate.
And just to use todays numbers 1 in 50 get it while treating a patient that’s 100 new cases. I bet it won’t stop at one.
This is how epidemics run.
We are blundering around at night in a minefield. That is why we need to be careful around people who have been exposed to Ebola. While it's good for the rest of us that Jenkins has decided to make himself a guinea pig, because it's another potentially useful data point, whether or not he gets infected, his family and neighbors may not feel the same way, especially if he comes down with Ebola.
What you're missing here is that Ebola isn't some kind of imaginary traditional deity worshiped by the benighted. It's a deadly disease that has killed thousands, a disease for which we have no cure apart from the immune systems of a lucky few.