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The nurse in Maine who is fighting being quarantined in Maine says she's doing it as a civil rights issue. At what point, though, does a medical professional need to put the potential public good above their own short-term wishes?
To me, I'd like to think that a medical care provider such as this would set the standard for caution rather than encouraging people to push the envelope and potentially create outbreaks of this horrific disease.
To me, I'd like to think that a medical care provider such as this would set the standard for caution rather than encouraging people to push the envelope and potentially create outbreaks of this horrific disease.
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A friend of my wife had her husband put into isolation in Macedonia because he had a temperature and was bleeding from his mouth (and someone thought he had been to Africa recently - he hadn't ) they locked him away in a room for three days with zero medical help. He died of a perforated ulcer and his existing asthma condition. She got hounded for days by the press until they found out what really happened - which they never bothered to publish.
So yeah,the sky's falling.
Difficult subject but my base thought is that a health care worker would want to err on the side of public health. It makes me wonder what advice and counsel she has been giving people in heavily infected areas on how to prevent possible exposures.....
And I don't get the title of this thread at all. How does someone who was working for a French charity, risking their own life, helping others, get to be called either "Patriotic" or "Selfish"?
If we could guarantee they would be truthful to us and themselves it would be different. Unfortunately we can't, so finish the job you started, and spend the last 21 days of it proving you are not sick.
From my understanding, which is obviously VERY limited, you don't test positive immediately after exposure or inoculation of the virus. There would be an "incubation" period, which is a big part of the reason for the requested quarantine period. For most people, the ability to detect the disease is probably much sooner than 21 days, but 21 days is considered the outside window that people have been exposed and then later began developing symptoms that were later determined to be brought on by Ebola.
With as potentially catastrophic as Ebola could be in such a highly mobile country like ours, it seems reasonable to use the most stringent protocols to keep it from spreading. Some of the things that keep Ebola outbreaks relatively small in Africa don't apply here. Our level and speed of coast to coast travel has the ability to spread the virus much, much faster than the incubation/contagious/testing situation does in Africa.
I think if the good doctor (or arrogant bitch?) is willing to spend time in that shithole caring for the people of Africa, that she should at least be willing to do a little time alone here out of respect for all of us at home in the US.
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