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Yeah, yeah, this is the line they've been selling for a few days now. I just don't believe it. Who says we can't get medical personnel in and out as long as it's limited to only essential personnel and quarantine? I'm not saying don't send people there, just restrict business and tourism visits (non-essential travel in my opinion).
Yes, no problems bringing the Military in and out. Just include Medical workers with this group.
The report right now on CNN states that Duncan told the ER on his first visit that he was from Liberia. Seems like the hospital would be in line for a legal case.
The hospital should be liable, but so should the U.S. government who allows people to travel here on tourist visas from countries experiencing outbreaks of a virus so virulent it has previously only been in the United States in a Containment Level 4 facility. And they continue to do it! The mind boggles.
Wouldn't he have logically said "I wasn't exposed to E but I was to M"? And based on that wouldn't it be serious enough to admit him? Hospital's fault it seems, in any case.
Don't worry..lots of folks want to see someone hang for this.
Even Jesse Jackson is saying there is liability and they have to pay for it.
There will be a financial settlement to the family to make it all go away.
And then any foreign traveler to the US that catches it just may do the same.
Just think..if the US State Dept stopped issuing tourist visas until this is contained then Duncan would not have come here.
How do you figure we can't stop people from coming here from West African nations? Of course we can! And the rest of the world should be coordinating that with us. We should allow essential personnel into those nations to help try to contain this virus. We should have done this months ago. Why hasn't the World Health Organization been more on top of this thing? I thought they were training for a global pandemic for years, but the response from WHO and the CDC has been extremely disappointing so far.
Why is the US or any European country for that matter issuing tourist visas in Ebola stricken countries ?
Business is one thing but tourist visas ?
Duncan came here on a tourist visa and yet countries warn about non-essential travel.
I have to agree with Katy on this. It's entirely possible to restrict travel from those countries while allowing medical personnel and supplies to come and go.
A guy from the CDC just answered this in a press conference, he said that doing that would mean the end of assistance to the effected areas (to paraphrase somewhat) and that would have the consequence of making the outbreak worse and pushing it out into other parts of Africa, and then out into the global community, having the reverse effect.
The problem being that if aid workers and medical personnel can't easily get out once they're in they will stop going. They need to be there to help contain it as best they can.
The US State Dept can certainly stop issuing tourist visas to Africans living in those ebola stricken nations until this blows over.
Our government was on television assuring the public that Ebola wouldn't make it to this country, so why are we blaming the hospital more than the government that allowed this man entry into our country? If anything, the hospital is liable for it's share, but they ought to have a case against the government for potentially infecting all those hospital staff members and people in the emergency room and EMTs, etc. Ultimately, our government is the one who let this guy come here on a tourist visa.
If this deputy ends up having it...oh how the tides and stories will change. From I SWEAR ITS NOT THAT CONTAGIOUS, to oh crap we might have a problem!
But no need to worry right? everyone is so sure that the CDC is being 100% truthful AND accurate that there must be direct contact.
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