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Originally Posted by megansmomma  The media spotlight in on other states because of what went down in TX. The state level Health Dept. should have closed the boarders of TX to the healthcare workers that were in contact with the Ebola. It's not like they didn't have the power to stop travel via quarantine. As I'm typing looks like NJ and NY have just quarantined all travelers from Ebola zones. So obviously, this is something that should have been done in TX at the state level. I'm not really sure what you are talking about when you bring up all of these "people flocking" to the state or what that has to do with any of this for that matter. I've been to TX and well to tell you the truth Chicago is much more my style.  |
Just saying in a huge state with people coming in daily from all borders with several deadly healthcare problems, huge economic issues and growing so fast, just because the governor couldn't drop everything and get deep into Ebola care at one hospital in Dallas doesn't mean he's not stepping up to what he deems is appropriate for his role - just the opposite. Texas has prospered greatly under his administration. We're a huge part of the economic recovery of this county. Many lives depend upon Perry's actions and decisions. And if Duncan had just gone to Baylor Hospital rather than Presbyterian, I doubt his travel history or diagnosis would have been missed.
Unless the people have taken bodily fluids of the sick or dead from Ebola into their own bodies, why quarantine them all? I think they are just quarantining some with the highest exposure - such as Ebola healthcare workers - which Thomas Duncan wasn't. So quarantining healthcare workers wouldn't have caught him at a US airport and his family said he didn't know he had been at high risk so NJ or NY wouldn't have quarantined him, nor would Texas even if we'd had such a mandate at that time.
Perhaps in such a population-dense state as New York and New Jersey quarantining is a good decision but I imagine there are other vital reasons which are just as urgent not to do it. Those two states have less cars per household than Texas and rely greatly on mass transit, people being crammed into subways and buses in close contact with others during busy times. Each governor is going to have to make the best decision for the overall administration of his own state.
Many don't care for the Texas lifestyle - wish more were like you. We've far too many wanting to become Texans as it is. They are flocking here by droves every day and have been for years now.
