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A "walk in the park?" No. I think when someone has been busting their butts under harsh circumstances, all they want to do is go home and see their loved ones, pets, and sleep in their own bed, not be isolated in some sterile cold environment for 3 weeks.
How about the troops who are going? Are they going to be isolated for three weeks when they come home on leave?
I think if they are forcing perfectly healthy people to go into isolation, it should be in a 5-star resort.
How do you know they are all perfectly healthy until the 21 days are over?
A "walk in the park?" No. I think when someone has been busting their butts under harsh circumstances, all they want to do is go home and see their loved ones, pets, and sleep in their own bed, not be isolated in some sterile cold environment for 3 weeks.
How about the troops who are going? Are they going to be isolated for three weeks when they come home on leave?
I think if they are forcing perfectly healthy people to go into isolation, it should be in a 5-star resort.
People are acting like quarantine is jail time or that people are being locked in the stocks or isolation wards. This isn't the case. My gosh, my husband has been quarantined several times after working in West Africa - not for 21 days but for a week or so. It's not pleasant but it's not the end of the freaking world.
And he was frankly glad to do it because the last thing he wanted to do was come home and get his family sick.
There's some bad stuff over there - not just Ebola.
Excellent suggestions, why didn't "they" think of it?
Thanks.
Yes, makes ya wonder, doesn't it? Certainly makes an individual who can think a little question it all.
Based on my observations on many things in life, when the serious "experts" in suits with fancy titles tell us not to worry, we have it all under control, there are protocols in place, etc., that's when my eyebrow raises a bit as we often realize how much of mankind's infrastructure/planning is built on a badly framed house of cards when the you know what hits the fan.
People are acting like quarantine is jail time or that people are being locked in the stocks or isolation wards. This isn't the case. My gosh, my husband has been quarantined several times after working in West Africa - not for 21 days but for a week or so. It's not pleasant but it's not the end of the freaking world.
And he was frankly glad to do it because the last thing he wanted to do was come home and get his family sick.
There's some bad stuff over there - not just Ebola.
Good examples/summary.
And in the same line of thinking, people ought to read up on the quarantine rules for animals passing back and forth between various nations. I'm not knocking these rules but they exist for a reason, even for diseases, viruses, bacteria, etc that are considered rare.
And in the same line of thinking, people ought to read up on the quarantine rules for animals passing back and forth between various nations. I'm not knocking these rules but they exist for a reason, even for diseases, viruses, bacteria, etc that are considered rare.
Right - my family is military and so we're pretty familiar with animal quarantines, which can be weeks when moving to another country.
Mali now has Ebola. It was brought in by a two year old who eventually died from it.
"After 2-year-old Fanta Kone's father died in southern Guinea, the toddler's grandmother took her from the forested hills where the Ebola outbreak first began months ago to bring her home to Mali. It wasn't long, though, before the little girl started getting nosebleeds. By the time the pair made their way back more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) to the heat-baked town of Kayes several days later, the toddler had a high fever and was vomiting blood. Doctors swiftly diagnosed Fanta with Ebola, but she soon succumbed to the virus already blamed for killing nearly 5,000 people in the region."
The grandmother is quarantined. They think the kid was symptomatic when she traveled on a bus so the whole country is afraid.
I think the governors are doing the right thing. Better that the symptoms appear when they are quarantined than discovered by them when they are out in public.
She is exhibiting no symptoms within the 21-day period. The caution is obviously in case she does start in with Ebola symptoms.
They should have quarantined Spencer when he got back, and anyone else who has/had direct care of Ebola patients. It's kind of a no-brainer, I don't see the big deal.
Now the fact that Nurse Kaci was allegedly mistreated is another matter. One can be quarantined in a comfortable place with personal things to do in that quarantine.
Her ruckus is confusing matters greatly. She should be lobbying for the quarantine that covers the full 21 days from the final day with contact with any patient, and that the quarantine place be nice and returning doctors/workers be treated with respect.
yes, I feel the same way, it is a precautionary measure, and I'm with Chris Christy all the way! Everyone in the United States with any common sense ability should understand, it is for everyone's protection. If you want to work over there, you have to follow procedure, and quarantining everyone should be a practice of preventative maintenance.
This nurse is screaming in-humane....it is more inhuman not to! I'm shocked that any health care worker would think otherwise, only because it is an inconvenience to them. Unbelievable. She cares about no one but herself.
It tells a lot that this woman works for the CDC but clearly has zero interest in protecting the health of the public. Instead of making the best of this she's all over tv complaining.
yes indeed, and those screaming over reaction, have no clue and disgust me. It is common straight foreward sense to quarantine those coming back, period. She indeed has no concern for others, otherwise she would understand and shouldn't be a health care worker, just like that woman who was on the cruise. No regard for anyone else but herself. So, b/c people like that exist in our nation, rules have to be made to protect everyone else, b/c they refuse to take initiative. What they are doing is selfish and inhuman.
yes indeed, and those screaming over reaction, have no clue and disgust me. It is common straight foreward sense to quarantine those coming back, period. She indeed has no concern for others, otherwise she would understand and shouldn't be a health care worker, just like that woman who was on the cruise. No regard for anyone else but herself. So, b/c people like that exist in our nation, rules have to be made to protect everyone else, b/c they refuse to take initiative. What they are doing is selfish and inhuman.
I know!!! Put those idiot health care volunteers in chains, huh?
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