They might have been able to treat him, had he not waited four days when he knew he was sick.
What an ungrateful self-centered bastard.....
I guess that makes Liberia a nation of racists.
Would he have been sent home if he said there was a very good chance he’d been exposed to Ebola?
Presbyterian Hospital spent $500,000 treating Thomas Duncan. What is racist about that?
Josephus,
I’ve paid for my health insurance my entire adult life. If you uncle didn’t have it, he was owed nothing.
I have paid taxes my entire adult life, we are not picking up the healthcare tab (or welfare) for the entire globe. Why do you feel that people like me should pay his bills?
Also, seems your uncle’s story is changing a lot.
is there anyone in that family not looking for a payday?
bump
We should sue him for bringing it here in the first place!
media always writes this crap as if the guns themselves kill people, or the car itself drives off the road.
let’s just treat ebola that way.
EBOLA is racist. It originated in West Africa, where most people are blacks. It obviously targeted blacks because they’re black.
Doctors aren’t racist. EBOLA is racist. (let’s ignore it’s infected others who aren’t black too).
This jerk and the MSM keep blaming the Presby Hospital.
The ER there is run by a private contractor, Texas Health Resources, NOT the hospital. The ER sent him home after his first visit.
But he was a man of color with no health insurance and no means to pay for treatment, so within hours he was released with some antibiotics and Tylenol
But he was able to afford a flight from Liberia to Texas. So that means he could afford health insurance.
Had the hospital assumed Duncan had ebola this first visit then Weeks would be trashing the hospital for assuming sick Africans have ebola.
And your good uncle just had to vomit all over the place and share his illness with numerous people.
......And while the stories of my uncle helping a pregnant woman with Ebola make him sound courageous, Thomas Eric told me that never happened. Like hundreds of thousands of West Africans, carefully avoiding Ebola was part of my uncle’s daily life.
And I can tell you: Thomas Eric would have never knowingly exposed anyone to this illness......
interesting statement that he never helped a pregnant woman hasn’t it been confirmed he did?
in order to avoid culpability it needs be shown he did not lie on his screening form..which the dead woman assistance would negate someone has been talking to a lawyer imo..
You know, I cannot remember a time when our medical system in America was able to call down miracles. This article is so insulting but this is what we get for developing a welfare society to help people who do not understand the first thing about what it is to deal with a disease like Ebola with little or no information. Ebola is a plague-like illness and there is NO cure. Mr. Duncan was already sick when he entered our country and that very thing has caused widespread panic and untold cost to our citizens, not to mention the two precious nurses who are now ill because of him. We did the best we could to heal him but we are NOT God and we cannot perform miracles and turn back the events in the lives of people from other nations. If we continue to let people in here from those hot zones, we will get more of this ingratitude. Perhaps we should march in the streets until this is changed.
No sympathy for the idiot who boarded a flight knowing he had it or was exposed to it. Now every single person who dies from it in the US is because of him.
Yeah, “the man” is out to get all you blackies. sarc
It was probably the evil white man the created through WHO, and introduced it to Africa just to kill the mud people. sarc It couldn’t have been through stupid behaviors with bats and dead people. sarc
Maybe instead they should have quarantined him in jail for attempted genocide or at least criminal negligence leading to the harm of another for:
1. In a country plagued by a deadly highly contagious hemorrhagic disease, hands-on helping a bleeding woman into and out of a cab that you share with her with almost certain blood contact. then
2. Flying to America and lying about your exposure