Doesn’t seem to be a popular opinion around here, but I think bringing them back for treatment is exactly the right thing to do. That’s assuming they can receive treatment here that’s superior to that in Africa.
We should never abandon our own for convenience, or even for safety. No more Benghazis!
Which is not to say that the government won’t screw it up.
Your tagline contradicts your statement. Curious to know your opinion of unicorns.
However, I think that while we should not abandon our own, we also should be loathe to putting undue risk of a lethal, communicable, incurable disease to our own as well. And we are faced with a government and a media that has already shown us they cannot be trusted!
There is no Ebola treatment. Only palliative measures to make dying easier. Millions will be squandered on two nutty “missionaries” who put themselves in harms way, who are going to expire soon.
Great to be a missionary but do it somewhere else
I agree with you. We may also be able to learn something from their cases, which would be impossible under African conditions.
One of them (the woman volunteer) received the experimental serum, and the other (the doctor) did not. So, allowing for gender differences, that might give a clue about what is effective and what is not.
The interesting story of the last two smallpox cases is illustrative. Although popularly smallpox is said to have ended in Somalia, it really ended in London, with a lab that had screwed up and produced 13 cases twelve years earlier, but had been allowed to keep operating in spite of inspections showing major problems by by the Labor government preceding Thatcher. Investigations by Parliament and the UK legal system resulted in no one being held responsible, although the lab's head did suicide.
Have you not been reading the articles? Treatment is nothing but keeping them hydrated and as comfortable as possible. It has to run its course until the patient recovers or dies. Now, please tell me how brining them here is helping them one bit. It's certainly not helping to keep it contained. It's certainly not helping to keep it out of the US. It's certainly not helping with a mistake and letting them infect others.
God Bless these two American ebola victims and may He guide the medical staff charged with healing them.
To be honest, I am amazed that he’s walking and I am proud that our country is taking care of him. He’s walking, which is amazing in itself.
I agree with you. It’s also a good opportunity to study the disease, and with patients whom are medically trained.
I disagree, you don’t fly highly infectious decease across continents if you can help it. They were perfectly capable constructing and supplying the necessary personal and equipment for treatment in Africa.
Equipment which could then be reused in the treatment of other Africans.