Posted on 10/12/2014 9:00:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Scary, unprecedented; Dallas is Ground Zero for Ebola.
We are Ground Zero now for a shattering series of firsts: The first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. The first to die of the terrifying disease.
And now, with news that a nurse who helped care for Thomas Eric Duncan is positive for the virus in preliminary tests, Dallas is the site of the nation’s first documented case of Ebola transmission.
It’s scary. It’s unprecedented.
It’s also the occasion for a critical test of the relationship between citizens -- us -- and our political and medical authorities. Either we believe in truth and transparency, or we don’t.
This is a tough job for said authorities. There are highly specific protocols for dealing with diagnosed Ebola patients, but dealing with an Ebola-spooked public remains a work in progress.
Our job is to trust them, and theirs is to avoid giving us reasons not to....
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Don’t know if you’re in Dallas, but Floyd is a consistently loathsome individual.
If a Nurse has a family at home, they should never be ordered to that job. Also, I would think it would be safer to house the medical staff at the hospital.
Odd that all this would happen in the first State Eboma would wipe off America’s map, if he could.. And perhaps he just can.
Denton.
Eventually the authorities will figure out that this is 2014 the age of the blossoming Internet... People will know everything and will know the back story ten minutes later... So they need to STOP will the dancing around the subject and get with the program..
Every single action in the first 5 days of this fiasco was done wrongly ... it took about a WEEK to get a proper actions - such as a complete HAZMAT Cleanup ... the list is long - so they get a no confidence vote from me... And I am a Texan and lived in Dallas - Fort Wort for 35 years - so I am allowed to complain
Nobody can really be forced to do anything in this country except prisoners, mental patients and the military.
Exactly.
They can’t control all information and get away with lying easily.
Blaming the victim (protocols weren’t followed) doesn’t work when we can find out that the PROTOCOLS were the problem in the first place.
I find FR more informative than anything put out by the MSM or the CDC on Ebola.
Neither will do either.
No they can’t, but if they are ordered and refuse they will lose their jobs, that is not right. There needs to be some protection for the Staff.
Has anyone heard about the situation as it exists now with the 9 people who were in the house when Duncan stayed with his girlfriend? I have not heard anything about them in days.
Ms. Floyd must be a citizen of Cuba because I can't imagine an American citizen saying it is the job of their fellow citizens to trust gov't authorities.
I used to work at that same Presby in Dallas for 2 years back in the 90’s. Would like to avoid hospitals completely these days if at all possible.
They almost assuredly have a union.
They’re living in a donated McMansion in a gated community and huddling with Jesse Jackson to figure out how to make this pay big. There’ve been quite a few threads about it.
Well, Ok. But that still does not answer the question. Seems no one knows the answer.
I think that if that is their specialty, they’re going to have to work with that or have a very plausible reason why they cannot and “I don’t want my family to die” wouldn’t do it.
Jackie’s asking the American public—after six years of “The Most Transparent Administration Ever”—to trust hearsay spoon-fed to its yappy little guard dogs, then regurgitated to us.
She’s as funny as a flying dildo.
Cant force, but can sure make life miserable when there is a “failure to communicate”.
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