I don’t think anybody who has it is up to “boinking” anybody...or likely to be a desirable candidate for boinking. Especially an elderly missionary.
However, these were early cases. Look at how badly the US did last week when we got our first case. We looked like a clown show.
The protocols put into place in handling the nurse were actually developed some weeks ago when they found a sick African woman in a bus station in Madrid. She turned out not to have Ebola, thankfully, but they obviously are ready to deal with it now.
I was in Spain in August, sitting in the plaza in a remote small city, and an African woman suddenly started to throw up. I doubt that she had Ebola, because she was well dressed and her 12-ish daughter, who was with her, spoke Spanish well, but everybody in the entire plaza froze and stared at her. A police officer came out of a nearby building and called for emergency services. I didn’t stick around to stare, but when I passed by later, I saw the sanitation department washing down the street with bleach.
They weren’t very well protected, but I suspect they’ve improved since then. I hope we improve, too. I was not only a little scared by the ineptitude in Dallas, I was seriously embarrassed by it, and the entire international press seems to be laughing at us now.
Understandable.
I was replying to the poster who insinuated that the Western medicos who are getting infected were engaged in extracurricular activity when off shift.
Not that it can’t spread that way:
http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/ebola-kills-8-soldiers