Discussion for article #228868
Issue an executive order banning anyone involved in clean up or caring for a person who has ebola or otherwise at risk of having come into contact and contracted the disease from travel outside their state, travel by train or airway, etc. Enough is enough.
I’m in no way on the hyperbole train with this, nor am I a huge fan of conspiracies, but some of the shit we’re hearing out of TX makes me wonder whether they’re fucking up on purpose at this point, maybe to be able to blame a severe epidemic on Obama.
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Please, someone from Texas step up and prove it isn’t just a shit eating state full of complete morons.
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Hey Rick
Are you gonna have a big ol’ meetin’ to pray the Ebola away?
Remembering the answer you got when y’all prayed for rain
and got wildfires as an answer?
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Issue an executive order banning anyone involved in clean up or caring for a person who has ebola or otherwise at risk of having come into contact and contracted the disease from travel outside their state, travel by train or airway, etc.
I thought the same thing until I realized it’s pretty hard to draw a line. Should they be allowed in supermarkets, restaurants, elevators, buses? If the disease can be spread on a plane, it seems like it could be spread just about anywhere. And if it’s just a matter of the healthcare worker being in another geographic area, one would hope they would already be taking precaution commensurate to the risk.
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That does sound far-fetched. I’d say a more plausible explanation is that the for-profit hospital was pinching pennies by not making protective gowns available to the staff. And also just doing an overall shite job of tracking who “cared for” this patient.
I would infer that the CDC was giving the hospital too much credit for telling the truth and maybe just not micro-managing the tracking of those nurses.
The CDC has said, and I believe them, that they will be more proactive in the future to dispatch a robust team to any infection. Clearly not all hospitals are up to the task as the CDC had initially stated.
My wife is a RN in California, and she said her hospital IS ready and she is blown away by what’s happened in Dallas. I would say a more plausible blame could be cast on an overworked ER staff, partly due to an ER which is used as primary health care because (surprise!) somebody didn’t want to expand Medicare with the ACA.
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hazardous waste was allowed to pile up to the ceiling and safety protocols constantly changed.
Hey, what is this, a nuclear power station?
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I feel very badly for those nurses who wanted to provide health care. I also feel badly for the patient. We should protect our health care workers, and provide dignified care. Neither happened in this case.
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I’m sick for everyone involved in this horrible, corporate, for profit, anti union expansion of what’s looking like the Texas Ebola disaster.
I hope the CEO of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has enjoyed his McMansion.
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Wasnt the CDC one of the gooberment things Perry wanted to ban? I forget…oops.
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The airplane crew said the woman had no symptoms during Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday. She flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Oct. 10.
Why are they relying on the airplane crew for this information?
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Presumably because of those that had contact with the nurse on the plane, the crew is easier to get a hold of and ask questions than the other passengers.
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But doesn’t the hospital worker know if she had symptoms? They don’t need to use the name but they are obviously giving out other information about the worker’s condition. The passenger would not necessarily tell the airline crew about any symptoms while on the flight.
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Right, the public is going to stop flying if they don’t get a handle on this now.
They can certainly still spread it. The point is to contain it geographically at the least.
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They are probably looking to the air crew to corroborate the nurses claim that she wasn’t showing symptoms at that point. For example the air crew can say if they saw her presenting any of the more visual early symptoms like coughing or vomiting.
Maybe, but if the worker had some of the less obvious symptoms, I am skeptical that the crew would know.
This is like a “Keystone Cops” routine, except it ain’t funny, it’s tragic. How in the hell did a nurse on an ebola symptom watch end up on a damned airline?
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Well yeah, but they have to work with what they have at this point which is what the nurse reports and what the air crew observed. The fact that this might not be a hundred percent reliable is probably part of why they are trying to contact and observe the rest of the passengers.