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Originally Posted by Maximo  Conditions in hospitals here are better than over in the African countries affected. Although I see your point about quarantine for all medical personal, either place.
The purpose of the quarantine is that a person can test negative initially, but later test positive as the illness progresses.
As for wives (and husbands?  ) and families needing them at home, once again I have to point to our military and people in other jobs that require them to be stationed away from home for long lengths of time. Jeanie, my brother is away from his young family 80% of the year for work. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
Our military, the non-commissioned, are not compensated so handsomely for their long deployments.
As for money, if someone can take a month off from their regular job, I'm sure they can swing 2 months. Sabbaticals in many professions are often longer than 2 months. I don't think quarantine is going to be a deal breaker for willingness to volunteer. |
That nurse that is quarantined, while she is squeeling like a pig under a gate, she was asked if she would continue her work over there, knowing she will now face quarantine when she returns to the USA....her response? "ABSOLUTELY"......so this is something these people will get over and they will continue their work. As far as military service....I have a cousin that has gone through 5 tours of duty in Afganastan....he is gone for a year at a time....his family adjusts to the situation.
I bet she would feel completely different if the shoe was on the other foot. She may be much more understanding of why this is being done, one person's inconvenience to protect hundreds or thousands of people she could possibly expose....meanwhile, there are 3 labs here in the Houston area and many more all over the world, that are working on vaccines for ebola....this may very well be the last year people have to go down there and take care of these desperately ill/dying patients.....they can vaccinate them all and, like that precious little cancer patient in the St.Jude commercial says, "it will all be over".