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Originally Posted by Rachael1983  Great news that the vaccine is being mass produced. I have serveral thoughts on the experimental drugs and working in pharmaceutical research I totally understand that there are parameters in which patients have to meet before recieving a treatment. Dallas patient 0 may not have met those parameters to recieve the drug at a given time point. There have been many balls dropped on the hospitals end, the governments and the patient as well.
I do think by having civil rights activists involved brings up a much bigger question that shouldn't be ignored. Think about it, so if 3000 people in a 3rd world country have died and we live in a global and traveling world its not impossible for it to make it to our borders and on American Soil. To be proactive would have been the better choice so we would be prepared here for such a scenario. Also why wouldn't we close our borders like other countries have, it must not have gotten to that point as of yet. Ebola got in front of us sometime around March of this year and the lives that its effecting are people with a darker skin tone but if it had been a European Country or America that the epidemic started with would we still say that 3000 people have died. I think not. There's a little racial component in there somewhere if we want to admit it or not. But that's not the point. The point is we have a health issue on our hands that can impact all of us and we have enough intelligent scientists and gurus to come up with some form of solution. Lives will be lost and arguments will be had. But we have to be aware, take the necessary precautions, pray to whatever higher entity you believe in and have compassion for others. |
Now this is the way to say it.....Excellent post, excellent excellent excellent....THANK YOU Rachelle!!
Regardless of stance/political/religious/etc....I don't always agree with Jesse Jackson or any other politician, person, relative...friend...but what I do admire is his tenacity and his advocacy, and I think his place in this instance was important and wish he had advocated for this gent sooner because his family and friends were not "really" able to. I don't necessarily even agree with everything he said concerning this because I wasn't there and I don't know all that went on. But his role here was/is important!
I also believe that because of the new procedures etc., that obviously mistakes were bound to happen, we all know that in an emergency all the preparedness in the world doesn't FULLY prepare us in the here and now moment, this is why drills in all settings are important. I do believe the initial mix up at the E.R. was certainly a vital delay in treatment/exposure etc....Complacency may not be the right term but when you work with as many people as medical personnel or even as I do daily, from all parts of the world, its easy to see how a miscommunication could have occurred. Its not an excuse but rather a human error reason.
I've seen this hysteria before when AIDS first was identified, SARS, SWINE FLU, MAD COW...ETC.ETC.... At this point all I know is that the man is dead, I don't believe this will be a mass epidemic and I do believe that it needs to be addressed quickly and right now so that not 1 single other person suffers, period. Until they perfect treatments and procedures I'm afraid there will be others. Keeping in mind that each of us are physiologically different and each of us hosts/battles diseases differently...its almost inevitable....just as with the common cold, the flu, cancer etc., etc., Optimistically, Ebola is much easier to eradicate right now then all of the diseases that cause so many of us to suffer because of each year.
RIP Mr. Duncan.