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Imagination and reality are two different things. We haven't gotten all the facts in yet, but so far we have been lied to from the get go so the fact is we can't trust what we're told. We were told it would never enter America, we were told if it did, no one would die.
One man, who merely entered the apartment of now deceased patient zero, came down with symptoms within days and his family is now quarantined.
This was the most serious outbreak of Ebola in history, infecting thousands of people, affecting a major urban center where people could access global travel. And one infected American traveled to Nigeria, transporting the virus across an international border, who was sick on the plane (how many of those plane passengers came down with Ebola----oh, right, none) and subsequently died in Nigeria, but not before spreading his virus to Nigerians. One infected Liberian traveled to the United States, who wasn't sick at the time that he traveled, again transporting the virus across international borders, and subsequently died in the United States. We don't know yet if he infected anyone in the United States, and we are learning from our mistakes how to contain the viral threat. That's two (2) travelers. Just two. Every other person transported with this virus across international borders was known to have Ebola, and the transport was designed to contain the infected person and assure the pilots and personnel didn't get Ebola, and none of those pilots or personnel have come down with Ebola. The Americans we've treated in the United States got the treatment promptly, and the treatment worked. Hopefully, it will continue to do so.
The affected region has imposed policies to screen individuals before flying. Because of Ebola's long incubation period, it's possible that someone might slip through. So the WHO and the CDC have notified hospitals around the world about questions to ask of incoming patients, symptoms to look for, protocols to follow. Yes, human error is a concern. But panic and overreaction pose more of a threat than rationally approaching this health issue, and calmly and reasonably designing effective protocols and putting those protocols into place.
And that's the worst problem--the fact that Ebola can incubate for 21 days.
Yes, we are hopefully learning from the mistakes, but I think I'd rather err on the side of caution--and not have to learn by painful experience.
It's hard to say without more facts. But if me Duncan had been more truthful on his customs form he could have been monitored and treated sooner.
He would have been refused entry to the flight and sent home in Liberia with ZERO monitoring.
And he would have died there instead of here and we would have never heard about him.
Again, more recent information about the timeline of events seems to show than Duncan had no way of knowing the pregnant girl who collapsed had Ebola. The cause of death was not known when he departed Liberia/ arrived in the US.
In otherwords, the timeline does not seem to support the initial Liberian government reaction that Duncan lied. Was that a mistake or shall we make it political and take it to the worst moral case and call it a lie?
In an interview with the taxi driver who took this women and Duncan to the hospital, he stated that at the time they thought she was having a miscarriage.
The fact that there is no vaccine is what's scary about these epidemics. We did have a serum for Ebola, which seemed to be working but they have run out. We are definitely not prepared for this thing to spread. The way they are so lax about the whole thing indicates they don't care if it spreads.
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