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"OCTOBER 23: News crews assemble outside 546 W. 147th street, the apartment building of Dr. Craig Spencer, October 23, 2014 in New York City. After returning to New York City from Guinea where he was working with Doctors Without Borders treating Ebola patients, Spencer was quarantined after showing symptoms consistent with the virus. Spencer was taken to Bellevue hospital to undergo testing. According to reports, test results have confirmed that Spencer has been diagnosed witht the Ebola virus." source
He selfishly failed to quarantine himself after having returned to NYC from working with Ebola patients in West Africa. He started feeling ill on Tuesday, less than ten days after he had returned to the US, but then traveled by subway to go BOWLING in Brooklyn on Wednesday. He finally sought medical care when he developed a high fever Wednesday evening, and now has tested positive for Ebola. Sorry he got sick, after having gone to West Africa to help others, but SHAME ON HIM for not having quarantined himself, and even having gone out to public gathering places after he began to feel sick.
He exposed people on the subway who touched the same pole or strap right after him, and at the bowling alley, especially anyone who used the same bowling ball that he used, assuming that he did not bring his own. He, of all people, should have known the risk he was putting other people at, without their consent. If this spreads within NYC, it's going to be a public health apocolyptic nightmare. Even if no one else contracts it (and two nurses contracted it treating the West African man in Dallas, using standard of care isolation precautions), thousands of hours of public health workers' time will be spent tracing contacts. And how are you going to trace those who rode the same subway car as he did, who might have used the same pole or strap?
Connecticut is imposing a mandatory 21 day quarantine on anyone who arrives from West African countries where Ebola is active. It's time to extend that mandatory quarantine nationally to all US citizens or permanent residents returning from countries where Ebola is active, and to temporarily suspend the issuance of US visitor visas to people coming from countries where Ebola is active. NOW, before it's too late.
Another jerk ,just like the nurse from Dallas who got on a plane back from Cleveland aven though she had a fever.Can't figure out what's wrong with these people.
This fckn assssclown should be charged if anyone in nyc gets Ebola.
Honestly if you go to Africa specifically to treat people with Ebola and then on coming back to this country decide to go bowling when less than a week later you are starting to come down with symptoms, 100%, slap a manslaughter charge on this guy for every person who catches it from him, and treason for good measure.
Well his home is at 546 W. 147 street. He probably went to the supermarkets, grocery stores, drugstores, restaurants, post office, coffee shops... in that neighborhood. He may have used the spoons, forks and dishes in a restaurant, and toilets and sinks there, touched the napkins and sugar packets at a coffee shop, coughed and sneezed in a crowded area...
Now it looks like he went to not one, but TWO bowling alleys after he'd begun to feel sick! And he was living with his fiancee in a small apt, after his return from Guinea. Did you know that Ebola is also sexually transmitted? But I'm sure he was abstaining from sex - after all, he was quarantining himself so assiduously! He would never have put his fiancee at such risk, knowing as he did that Ebola is sexually transmitted, would he?
Is he just a clueless, selfish *******, or is this guy a sociopath? It's almost as if he was deliberately trying to spread it in NYC, going out on the subway, then to not one but TWO bowling alleys while he felt sick.
Honestly, I think this guy should be prosecuted if he recovers. Even if no one else catches it from him, his care and the public health expenditures to trace and quarantine his contacts are probably going to top a million dollars.
Just goes to show you that an individual being a doctor has no bearing on intelligence or responsibility. This guy is a complete assclown and this makes me believe that he went to treat patients in East Africa just to stroke his own ego. He's clearly a selfish dick.
With that being said, I think NYC has the necessary tools to contain this and the Feds have an impetus to throw in all of their resources in this case simply because this is NYC.
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Thanks for NOTHING, Dr. Spencer!
