Posted on 10/08/2014 8:14:18 PM PDT by Prospero
“I knew Duncan well. As refugees in Bujumbura Camp we were there hustling to see how we could make it. We were at war back home, so we were like trying to do everything humanly possible to make sure we stay alive to come back home. So when the war ended we began to come home one by one and he came before me. I came in 2011. We met once and that was around the 72nd belt, somewhere around Boulevard Junction and we just waved to each other because I was in a taxi; that’s the last time I saw him. When I saw his photo on Facebook, I was like ‘oh! I know this guy’. “
Duncan’s family in the U.S. has been supportive while denying that he had Ebola prior to entering the U.S., some have even gone as far as to suggest that Duncan took an Ebola test prior to his departure from Liberia, a point Tolbert Nyensuah, Assistant Minister for Curative and Preventive Services at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare debunks. “There was no Ebola test given Mr. Duncan, what he was given at the airport was a temperature test, people should stop confusing the two.”
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpageafricaonline.com ...
He looked sick.Maybe tired from Obama calling him to go there.
Before he left Monrovia, his temp was low. When he arrived in Dallas, his temp was low. Can you say Tylenol and Motrin? Oh, yes, he knew he likely had it and he was taking no chances getting into the US for medical care.
Yup.
It’s his negative!
She was dead 4 hours later.They lied to the cab driver and said she bite her tongue and that is why she was bleeding from the mouth.
They both have cheesy grins, pointy chins and freaky pointy jug ears. And they both can’t speak without LYING.
And he lied and said he did not handle or was exposed to ebola to get out of the country.
Jimenez Grugbaye, the cabby who transported Duncan and his landlords and their desperately ill pregnant daughter, has reported that they denied in response to direct questions that she had Ebola. They insisted her condition was strictly related to pregnancy complications. The cabby said "I decided to ask him to intervene a bit as to regarding this sickness, what type of sickness it really was, and she told me and reassured me it was not the Ebola thing, it was like abortion."
It seems quite likely they told Duncan the same story. After all, their daughter was dying, and they needed to enlist muscle to seek help for her.
You can make the argument that Duncan should have known she had Ebola. After all, the cabby also reported that, after earning his fare and reflecting upon what he had seen, he was sufficiently alarmed that he fumigated his cab twice and visited a clinic to be checked.
However, the fact remains that Duncan did not object when, after his first ER visit in Dallas, he was sent on his way with a worse than useless antibiotic prescription. That argues that he didn't know how much trouble he was in. Or he was in a state of serious denial (Hey — I helped my landlord's daughter. She was a horrible mess, but it wasn't Ebola. And I was OK at the airport, and the Dallas docs didn't think my illness was a big deal even after I told them I was from West Africa. Whew! So far, so good!).
He'd procured his ticket and visa well in advance of his Ebola exposure. I think his plan was to convert his tourist visa into permanent US residency either by marrying his GF or simply overstaying his visa. Then Ebola hit him from left field.
I remember the cab driver saying that he didn’t touch the pregnant girl but everyone else did trying to help her into the car and out again. They all died...and now Duncan too.
I’m just citing facts from an article I found after searching, ‘Ebola incubation period’.
Ex-spurts, ya know.
Yeah, you’re right. We should all be deeply appreciative of this gentleman taking the time and trouble to go out of his way and share a little bit of his diverse Kultur with us.
It would have been of great benefit to the community if he had been immediately hospitalised, and therefore isolated. I am amazed that he was seen and let go home.
There is a Liberian doctor, Gorbee Logan, who has been treating Ebola patients with lamivudine, an off-patent antiviral normally used to treat HIV and hepatitis-B cases. Dr. Logan claims to be 13 for 15, the two losses being the ones who were put on the drug the latest.
Common sense indicates starting treatment three days earlier might have made a difference.
Finally someone said out loud what I was thinking. No mention has been made of a father to that woman’s child. I just read the story and Duncan has fathered several children at least. Could it be he was the father of the landlord’s daughter’s child and that is why he was helping her?
I think you’d have to be pretty isolated to be living in Liberia and not be aware of Ebola. I think he knew what was wrong with her. Certainly at the end he had to know what she died from.
I really don’t think I would. Unless I was ignorant of the highly contagious factor (which I can’t believe he would be, having lived among it for years) I would not think I’d be selfish to the degree that I would risk possible suffering and/or death to friends and family and also the strangers who live in a country that is not mine.
I wasn’t wishing that he die but I did feel animosity towards him.
I dont think you can make that leap, but YMMV. When we get a couple dozen cases here we will know better how it acts and if we can make a difference by intervening. Unfortunately, I think we will get that chance.
Via Ask.com:
The normal temperature on a forehead should read 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, according to MedicineNet.
However, forehead thermometers are not very accurate, so the temperature taken via this method may vary by several degrees.
A normal body temperature is an average of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but it may vary throughout the day, depending on the type of activity that one is doing. A healthy adult is not considered to have a fever until the body's temperature has risen above 100 degrees Fahrenheit orally, or 101 degrees Fahrenheit in the ear.
According to WebMD, the best thermometers to use for accuracy are electronic oral thermometers and ear thermometers.
His disadvantage: He's a Liberian in Liberia.
His advantage: No stinkin' USG. No stinkin' FDA!
Bottom Line with an Ebola epidemic raging, in West Africa, America should not be subjected to even being exposed to the virus... All people from the Ebola HotSpot countries should been banned long ago from entering the USA... No VISAS issued period.. We cannot leave the safety of Americans left to the confused or intentional decisions of individual citizens of the Ebola stricken West African countries. It is insanity to not have invoked a NO VISA policy months and months ago.. We should not have to discussing whether what ever it was in Duncan’s head - it does not matter - what matters if we the USA - the U.S. Government has a WRONG - harmful and DEADLY policy and it should be reversed...
Who is “They”? The article says “she” lied. And the truth is she may not have known either.
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