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kestrel91316

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24. Sending a child to school who had contact with an ebola patient

Reply to jwirr (Reply #17)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 11:58 PM

Oct 2014

is terrifying enough. And cause enough to bring on the armed guard.

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Anonymous donor has provided a home to the Ebola relatives in a gated community. [View all] pnwmom Oct 2014 OP

Good and I have a difficult time being polite in expressing my anger at it taking so long uppityperson Oct 2014 #1

I missed that particular factoid. Geez. What a disaster this has been. pnwmom Oct 2014 #2

OMG he did not do that!?!?!?!!? WHY??? kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #4

Sick people don't always think clearly. nt. Mariana Oct 2014 #23

True. But everybody in that apartment had to be thinking EBOLAEBOLAEBOLA kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #28

How do you know they didn't pour bleach or lysol? How do you know what everyone was uppityperson Oct 2014 #29

I don't care if they're in the presidential suite at the freaking Hilton. All I care is that they kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #3

Indeed, making them stay in a contaminated apartment for days exposed and endangered them a lot. uppityperson Oct 2014 #5

We should care. By keeping them in the contaminated apartment for days, pnwmom Oct 2014 #6

I understand doing it the first day, until alternate arrangements could be made. But beyond that kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #10

I believe that was the problem..... VanillaRhapsody Oct 2014 #30

It feels more like the response of overwhelmed health professionals Generic Other Oct 2014 #37

Thank you. I just get tired of the misinformation, the pooh-poohers, and kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #39

CNN interview with the female relative cwydro Oct 2014 #7

And I think she helped bag up his stuff. So she's certainly at risk. pnwmom Oct 2014 #8

If she knows she was exposed, why has she not come forward to speak to the hordes of CDC personnel kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #15

CDC should have been contacting her. LisaL Oct 2014 #18

She has been talking to them and they are following her. She's somewhere on the list. pnwmom Oct 2014 #31

Isn't the rule watch for symptoms. They are not contagious until symptoms. seabeyond Oct 2014 #33

Yes, but she was exposed as much as some of the people in the other apartment. pnwmom Oct 2014 #34

Why did it have to come to this? ohnoyoudidnt Oct 2014 #9

Good question BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #11

Because they are asymptomatic and, hence, cannot transmit Ebola. n/t ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #13

But almost anywhere would have been better for them than being trapped in the pnwmom Oct 2014 #32

I can't argue with that. ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #35

We don't take up hospital beds with asymptomatic people who may very well never get ill. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #14

But perhaps an exception for a disease they are tying to contain might be an exception BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #16

it's not penny pinching. hospitals are not hotels. magical thyme Oct 2014 #40

Repeated breaking of isolation protocols? I heard that they sent a child to school. Were there other jwirr Oct 2014 #17

The reports I saw used the word "violations" without specifying what they were. pnwmom Oct 2014 #22

Sending a child to school who had contact with an ebola patient kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #24

It's the local public health's responsibility. They are the miserable failures in this. CDC is there kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #12

I read somewhere that the CDC hired "The Good Guys." pnwmom Oct 2014 #20

I suspect they did it because the locals didn't think to or said it wasn't necessary. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #25

Same problem FEMA had after Sandy- everyone kept expecting FEMA to do everything KittyWampus Oct 2014 #21

Yep. CDC is not your mother. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #27

Except you are in earthquake country Generic Other Oct 2014 #38

They'll spend as much money as they can telling you how prepared they are valerief Oct 2014 #19

Yay for people who care flamingdem Oct 2014 #26

I like the Dallas County judge Gothmog Oct 2014 #36