Ebola

tecoyah · Oct 15, 2014

My beautiful and fantastic wife is a nurse that must deal with people daily with various illness. She does this because she cares about others, and wishes to help them...truly an admirable person.

So...some prick moron decides to LIE in order to save his own life (which obviously failed), infects many others and places my wife at risk by doing so.

Should I feel guilty for being glad this guy died and saved me the temptation to do the deed myself...or should I feel sorry for him and his family?:cry:

Polydectes · Oct 15, 2014

tecoyah said:
My beautiful and fantastic wife is a nurse that must deal with people daily with various illness. She does this because she cares about others, and wishes to help them...truly an admirable person.

So...some prick moron decides to LIE in order to save his own life (which obviously failed), infects many others and places my wife at risk by doing so.

Should I feel guilty for being glad this guy died and saved me the temptation to do the deed myself...or should I feel sorry for him and his family?:cry:

Both feelings are justified.

arcturus88 · Oct 15, 2014

we're talking about the guy in TX, yes?

i'm infuriated that his family has complained about the care he received. they did everything they could for this idiot who now has infected two health care workers. they ought to be ashamed of him.

arcturus88 · Oct 15, 2014

Aufgeblassen said:
Huh? He didn't do it deliberately. Nor did he chose to get it either. Sheesh!

he lied on the form (prior to entering US) stating he did not have contact with anyone with ebola and it was later discovered that he did indeed.

tecoyah · Oct 16, 2014

Aufgeblassen said:
Huh? He didn't do it deliberately. Nor did he chose to get it either. Sheesh!

Yes, he did do it deliberately.....he lied to get into the US, knowing he was exposed.

tecoyah · Oct 16, 2014

Aufgeblassen said:
The Ebola worker? I think everyone knew he was one, but as he had no symptoms, so there was no reason to not let him fly. He was turned away from the hospital the 1st time. THAT was the big blunder.

Yes there was a reason...it is called the law. In fact, had he lived the Liberian Gov't intended to bring him up on charges.

David · Oct 16, 2014

tecoyah said:
Yes, he did do it deliberately.....he lied to get into the US, knowing he was exposed.

That's not really fair. The only infected person he dealt with was a pregnant women that went into labor and which he helped to a hospital. There is no reason to believe he knew she was infected and with a 21 day incubation period, he was in Texas before he started feeling sick.

You're basing your anger on initial reports and assumptions before the infection vector was determined. That said, feel free to hate his family for not respecting the quarantine.

tecoyah · Oct 16, 2014

David said:
That's not really fair. The only infected person he dealt with was a pregnant women that went into labor and which he helped to a hospital. There is no reason to believe he knew she was infected and with a 21 day incubation period, he was in Texas before he started feeling sick.

You're basing your anger on initial reports and assumptions before the infection vector was determined. That said, feel free to hate his family for not respecting the quarantine.

The pregnant woman he was carrying was dying...of Ebola and was in fact rejected as too far gone by the clinic, thus he had to carry her back home.

I would say that is pretty clearly "Exposure".

Polydectes · Oct 16, 2014

The fact that we haven't halted all inbound flights from Liberia is an utter blunder. I heard somebody saying thatwould make it worse. In what world?

The assclown and chief calls for a moratorium on off shore drilling. Because he wants to find out which "ass to kick" and here we are staring down a plague.

tecoyah · Nov 27, 2015

Aufgeblassen said:
What ever happened to the outbreak? It disappeared suddenly from the news just like all that coverage about the pirating of ships on the ocean.

Partly it fell away from emergency status through intervention, it also became no threat to the United States and thus we no longer consider it news.

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