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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  The country takes temps of the people leaving Liberia, and they ask if you have had contact with anyone that had ebola. This mans honor flew right out the window when he lied right then, and denied on that travel document that he had been exposed to anyone with ebola. He could have prevented all of this by simply waiting the 21 days to see if he did indeed get enough exposure to get the virus himself. But no, he decided to take the course of action he did. There is NO honor in what he did from that moment forward. This is exactly why this disease is rampant across Africa because people have no concern for what the consequences could be if they walk around all over the country, infected with the disease. Hopefully, he has not spread that disease anyplace else in Europe or in Texas. His SECOND opportunity to be honorable was just as calliously disregarded when he kept his mouth shut and walked out of that emergency room, at which point in time he WAS contageous. I believe he knew what he had at that point in time, and he should have insisted he be admitted and isolated....all he would have had to say is, I was closely exposed to a patient with ebola and now I am sick....the hospital would have certainly double checked his admitting history and acted accordingly. Now, I am hearing various lawyers and the ACLU are beginning to say "the poor family that is being quaranteened in that apartment are having their freedoms trampled on. The poor children cant go to school, the poor family are under guarded lock and key, this is just so unfair to them." Give me a break!!! |
Couldn't agree with you more.
If the story of his close, unprotected contact with an Ebola patient is correct, I think what this man did in getting on that airplane constitutes depraved indifference and should carry some legal liability, as should any future similar situations. And there will be more coming. Anyone with the price of a ticket and travel clearances will be forming lines to get here as quickly as they can, following Duncan's example. And the very poor - those who don't have family to send them money to escape - they'll just have to stay in the midst of that disease hell and either they make it or they don't. Only those with money get out, as usual.
And for goodness sake, ACLU, why don't you have your Dallas office limo them to your home office to bed down if their freedoms are so trampled and you don't feel holding them in their very own home is proper. Or fund them an isolated house that the CDC has approved and pay for 24/7 security. For goodness sake - they are in their own home and the sick man is long out of there. Quarantine for those who possibly came into close contact with a sick Ebola patient's bodily fluids is imperative as you don't want them getting symptomatic and contagious while out and about and suddenly coughing up bloody mucus or vomiting in the aisle of a movie theater, school, mall or grocery store.