[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1

He did the right thing....he helped his "sister", his neighbor that was dying....he was kind hearted and generous and oh so noble.....but he committed HIS life to helping that unfortunate woman, not any other living soul on the face of this earth. He sqrewed up and forgot all his generous, kind hearted humanitarian sense, and decided to possibly contaminate every other country/people/persons he mingled with, all over Europe whereever he landed, and then on to Dallas, where he has deliberately and without any humanitarian concsiousness, exposed his own family, small children, and at least 100 other people they have managed to track down.....If he wants to sentence himself to death from ebola, by helping his neighbor, I think that is a wonderful and noble mission. But I didnt sign up for that, and neither did my family, my kids, all the little kids in schools that may be contaminated because his family now has to be on guarded lockdown because THEY dont like not being able to go outside and want to send the kids to school, and did so, against strict instructions NOT to leave the apartment. He should have stayed where he was, just because he KNEW what he had exposed himself to, and he lied to authorities about not having been around any sick ebola patients. I am sorry but his humanitarian allegience to his neighbor does not give him the right to possibly condem another single living soul to death by this disease. Look at the horrific, expanding mess this has created for innocent, unsuspecting humans that do not deserve this.

As I understand it, he was not contagious and was asymptotic on the plane rides that he took from Liberia to Brussels and then into the US . According to the CDC Ebola is not transmitted until you actually become sick. That is why before boarding the plane in Liberia the country is taking the temperatures of everyone leaving the country. He became contagious after being in TX for a few days and like I said previously it was his family that he exposed. I really do believe that he got on that plane hoping that he wouldn't get sick but knowing that if he did once in the US he would be treated and most likely cured. By no means do I believe that his actions are acceptable. Hopefully they have not caused the virus to spread any further than himself. When he went to the hospital the first time if he was an honorable man he should have confessed what he KNEW and insisted on being treated and quarantined. Just saying "hey BTW my BIL just came from Liberia" obviously was not enough of a clue for the ER staff to take immediate actions. He should have never stepped foot out of that ER when he KNEW that he was having the fever and other symptoms associated with Ebola.

Another thought is that he possibly does not speak English well and I know that he has a relative with him for the first trip to the ER. Maybe something was lost in translation?