I couldn’t disagree with you more. This doctor, no matter what his motivation was, knew the risks. This has been going on long enough in west Africa that the Samaritan Purse, WHO, or anyone else who wanted to help could have set up a Quarantined medical center and poured their resources into that place. To intentionally jump the disease to unaffected continents is the height of irresponsibility, and we will likely all live to regret this action.
This virus, while deadly, can be controlled easily, just like any other when outside the human or animal host so there is no reason to fear from the decontamination procedures they are employing, just because it is ebola.
In Africa, it spreads largely because of African or tribal social customs. Time and time again, unexplained deaths are misdiagnosed as flu or old age, or something else. Their burial customs require a lot of direct contact with the body and this results in a spread of the disease to others locations.
That’s not going to happen here.
While dangerous, it’s no more dangerous in terms of spreading than any other virus that is spread by contact and some hospitals are ideally suited for treatment of these kinds of bugs.
Frankly, I don’t see a reason to react as some have.
What makes you think he doesn’t know the risks?
Do you think that we are incapable of treating a doctor with Ebola?
He makes the perfect patient for our domestic teams to learn what they can, it is fantasy to think that keeping it out of U.S. borders 100%, with zero penetration, is realistic, and that his coming home is the act that is going to kill us all.