Hypothetical question.
I am a HCW and have been following “protocol” as carefully as possible and know the nurse that has come down with ebola and know she has been following “protocol”. I am now faced with two options. It is impossible to follow the protocol OR the level of PPE is not adequate.
The “Authorities” refuse to recommend increase in PPE level and will therefore blame me instead of protect me from infection.
Will I go to work tomorrow? Would you?
I honestly don’t know if I’d go to work tomorrow or not if I were you. Once people from Ebola stricken countries have arrived in the U.S., they are free to travel anywhere so it could be spread anywhere.
Do you have family who live with you? Are you willing to die to help others?
If the answer to the first question is “yes”, the second question doesn’t matter. Do not go to work.
I'm not wise enough to have an answer for you; that's between you and your own judgment and conscience.
BTW my wife works in healthcare too, in a hospital in a city I won't name here. I expect we'll be facing the same dilemma before long.
Whats PPE?
There is a particular freeper that will call you a coward and in the same crown as a solder that goes AWOL in the face of deployment if you don’t show up and work. I suspect he would agree that nurses should be forced with violence or law to treat the Ebola patients. Not his problem if they are getting lied too about protocols, procedures and the like. He thinks they signed up to die while being lied too,
I can’t remember which freeper it is. He is real anal about it.