Posted on 10/18/2014 4:34:14 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
While federal and local officials rethink their Ebola containment strategy, they've also riled front-line health care workers by repeatedly pointing the finger at nurses as new infections surface.
Most recently, federal sources even suggested the second Dallas nurse to test positive for the virus "lied" to the CDC about her symptoms.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I think this "blame the hospital" strategy is DEFLECTION.
The hospital was following the ‘recommended guidelines’ of the CDC. The CDC is responsible for seeing that the hospitals are ready to handle a pandemic.
Too bad there’s no way to get the American people interested in any of this before it becomes an unsolvable problem.
As soon as the CDC figures out what its protocols really are, and sticks with them for more than 20 minutes, (OK, the next is a lie) I might pay them some attention.
It may already be an unsolvable problem based on our government solutions...
Truly frightening possibilities 21 days plus from now on based on worse case scenario...
Who’s lying? Seems a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. The CDC has proven inadequate and unprepared, can’t even play politics well. The second nurse, with the knowledge of her colleague getting sick, having some apparent symptoms before leaving Dallas, proved irresponsible to have flown to Ohio in the first place. Inconvenient for her and colleague now on the cruise ship to put their lives on hold for their luck of the draw in getting an Ebola patient, but they should not be running around putting everyone else at risk. Sit tight, let 21, no, now 42 days pass (WHO now says risk period is 42 days).
The nurse starts out as a victim, but her actions undermine that unfortunate status.
And the cost to the country, to businesses, and communities... Just one patient got into the US and look at what has transpired?! 70+ directly treating the patient, businesses closed, communities ripped apart, schools closed, and more.
We desperately need to quarantine Africa, get some leadership to get the world to join this effort, to secure our borders. Ideally to stop disease and pestilence, but at least slow it down.
Shame on the nurse, but more shame on Obama for putting her in this position.
And the Democrats war on Nurses continues.
If a quarantine of Ebola countries would have been in force, Duncan would never have gotten into the US and the country would not have been exposed to this plague.
This is the Obama administrations fault, pure and simple, no matter how much they want to blame the nurses who are sick, the state of Texas that didn’t invite Duncan to invade with his pestilence, or anyone else.
Any word on the camera man’s condition?
Indiscriminate malice with a first line attack against the American health care sector.
Next turn off the grid.
The evil plan is coming together.
We are talking about life and death here. Unless someone comes up with a vaccine in the very near future we are going to see all of the brain dead Obama voters turn on their hero. I don’t think the socialists will have enough man power to accomplish a private sector takeover. It will break down to locals defending their own against lawless morons.
Where are the feminists now that Obama has decided to wage a war on women by blaming nurses for our Ebola epidemic?
At present, countries like Britain and France, unlike the U.S., are Ebola-free. Why? Because British and French nurses are better than ours?
No, it’s because British and French leaders, unlike Obama, banned planeloads of passengers from Ebola-infested West Africa.
Too bad there’s no way to get the American people interested in any of this before it becomes an unsolvable problem
Post of the year, sadly.
Of course National Nurses United, the group now squealing about the Obola administration’s attempt to scapegoat their members for the transmission of Ebola by patient Duncan, enthusiastically backed the reelection of our incompetent president in 2012 ...
http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/national-nurses-united-endorses-president-obama/
Just reaping what they sowed.
It's been 20 days since Duncan left the apartment where he puked and had diarrhea. None of the people there were infected. Therefore we can surmise that there is little or no risk for the nurses casual contacts, the cruise ship, etc.
OTOH we have 150 new arrivals a day that could be incubating with no symptoms or even be contagious without symptoms. That is truly frightening because they are not Americans, not being tracked, will blend into their respective communities and any one of them could start an outbreak here.
I have no doubt we will handle each outbreak but it will cost millions each time and Americans will die from it particularly health care workers.
That's true, it can do that. It seems to require a late stage patient for a high risk, and perhaps a very low but nonzero risk for a saliva transfer.
hey authorized someone to get on a plane who had a new onset fever following exposure to Ebola
A stupid decision, but low risk nonetheless. We need to be as close to zero risk as possible with this disease, but having allowed nonzero risks, we should be wildly overestimating those past exposure risks.
Ebola will greatly damage the travel industry in America. Airlines will go bankrupt, trains and buses will be empty.
But the greatest damage will be to the health industry, where doctors and nurses will either die or refuse to work. Hospitals will close due to the financial stresses and the upcoming lawsuits.
As with most tragedies, the only winners will be the lawyers.
Ebola will never be pandemic here, not even endemic. We can easily find the victims and isolate them and quarantine or track their contacts. We don't wash dead bodies at home, carry them in taxis. We don't take dying people to the hospital in taxis to find out they are full and go back home. Etc.
OTOH we will have de facto endemic Ebola here as long as we bring 150 new people in every day potentially incubating the virus. That will costs billions and many American lives, particularly health care workers.
I agree completely. Our economy will take a huge hit and Obola will get a big chuckle out of that.
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