Posted on 10/12/2014 9:07:36 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a Dallas County commissioner have accused a Texas hospital of racism in the death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.
"What role did [Duncan's] lack of privilege play in the treatment he received? He is being treated as a criminal rather than as a patient," Jackson wrote in a story for the Huffington Post this week. "As followers of Jesus, we are called to work for the day when those with privilege, most often white people, have greater access to better medical care than those whom Jesus calls 'the least of our sisters and brothers.'"
Duncan, who traveled to Dallas from Liberia on Sept. 20, contacted the disease while in the West African country — which has become ground zero in the current epidemic. He succumbed to the illness Wednesday.
Duncan visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 25 after first experiencing symptoms a day earlier. Doctors released him, seeing no major cause for concern. Reports say that Duncan told doctors he had come from West Africa.
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I guess spending thousands of likely taxpayer dollars on an immigrant that brought the virus here inetenionally is somehow “racist.” Go away, race pimp Jackson.
"Duncan's family had visited him at the hospital on Tuesday but declined to view him via video because the last time it had been too upsetting.The relatives glimpsed him using a video system at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Monday. But when they returned anew, this time with Reverend Jessie Jackson, they decided such images were too much.
'What we saw was very painful. It didn't look good,' said Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks.
Weeks said he and Duncan's mother were unable to sleep after seeing Duncan's face."
In the viral world, once AIDS had established that it’s species could be spread through political correctness, that became the preferred means of transmission for most other species of virus. Unfortunately for the virus, global cooling and the resulting deaths of likely hosts by hypothermia prevented pandemic viral expansion from reaching its full potential.
Had to know it was John Wiley Price from the get-go.
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