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One person (a visitor) dead and there is a lot of hysteria. Nina Pham is back to normal and all people can do is to find negatives. Dr. Frieden, Obama and those officials exercising common sense were right all along. Bet the Repugs will be running campaign ads about the doctor in NYC by Monday.
It's too,,capitalization also counts........Actually I never do the spell check thing...The spell check crowd need a few crumbs to feed upon,,,,,,,,,every now and then. I'm very generous about such things....as you can see.
My point was that little observation had nothing to do with the discussion..I notice that when one is arguing a point and they have to run off topic it's because they can't defend it..
And I've noticed that when one addresses a point, and then includes a personal aside at the end - which is what happened in this case - that the respondent (you, in this case) will often whine that the aside is an attempt at deflection, conveniently ignoring that the aside only came after the point was addressed.
And, you do realize that I was trying to lighten the load by teasing you both a little? C'mon man, you'll either laugh with the sinners or cry with the saints.
Knock it off, we're trying to be serious here.
Have you heard any good jokes about Ebola? I heard about one that went viral.
I heard that Dr. Spencer caught it from an ebowla ball.
I, for one, didn't automatically think pregnancy the first day I was tired after having unprotected sex, even with my second pregnancy. It actually took a week of me feeling tired, and then the nausea starting, for me to take a pregnancy test.
So I'm not surprised that he didn't automatically think "Ebola!" the first day he felt a little tired.
I think that anyone who stood a strong chance of being exposed to Ebola (EBOLA FOR PETE'S SAKE) should be sort of, well, hypervigilant about any symptoms.
If you are at high risk for infection, as Dr Spencer was, it is only prudent to not run around NYC when you return, at least until the 21 days are over.
If he was jogging before the malaise hit, I would not attribute the malaise to jet lag.
So far the honor system is not foolproof. We don't really know if he even checked for fever twice a day. Just because the health officials say so doesn't mean it's true. Of course, one can still have ebola without a fever, so monitoring temperature isn't foolproof either.
I would hardly say he was running all over the city. He wasn't even working. In 10 days he went on the Subway a few times and to a bowling alley. He went to those places when he did NOT have a fever. According to last night's press conference, he developed a fever yesterday during the latter part of the morning and immediately called the proper people.
You left out his three mile jog and his restaurant stop on Wednesday.
No, it's because trying to parse posts through all the overused and unneeded punctuation is a waste of time. People are going to dismiss your posts out of hand because they are hard to read and understand, not because the posts are technical, but because of the spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. You might have something of value to add to a conversation, a cogent thought, but it doesn't come across. I wasn't even talking about spell check, I was talking about the overuse of ellepses and commas, which isn't hard for you to modify.
I have no problem defending my posts.
We have a big problem with ebola and someone is worried about grammar and punctuation? sheesh!!!
Why would we quarantine people for a disease that is so far less contagious and less deadly to the American general public than the common cold?
The doctor did exactly the right thing and Obama etc have been right all along, no you can't get it on the bus.
I wonder why it's okay to splash this guy's personal medical info all over the media? Do not privacy laws apply?
It cost money to trace down everyone and contact them, isolate them, people have jobs to go to, lives they don't exactly want disturbed because someone was walking around or flying with Ebola. Businesses don't need to close and clean if these people are cleared before they go to them. It's a lot more effective dealing with one person to monitor than a 100 after you take a plane trip and visit a few stores.
You left out his three mile jog and his restaurant stop on Wednesday.
I can just see this - you find out in your huge 3,000 sq foot (or larger) restaurant/place of business that ebola has just stopped by, now you have to do MAJOR CLEANING. what fun!
Or you can go over the cliff wearing your aluminum foil deflector beanie worrying about something that has an infinitesimal chance of being dangerous to you personally all the while blissfully ignoring the fact that you are more likely to die of a bee sting, or a falling television, or enterovirus, or the flu or food poisoning among about a billion other things, or perhaps dying in your bed of old age.
By the way, I urge you to stop using ellipses in the place of commas. The importance of proper puncuation just can't be taken too lightly!
Don't leave out proper spelling if you're going to be the grammar police!
Also, you need to put a comma between "personally" and "all" in your first paragraph. And finally, "dying" is in the wrong tense (it should be "or perhaps die in your bed of old age" in the context of the sentence).
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