I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined

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92. Good post, but it's stupidity all around.

I don't blame her too much because when an authority tells you it's ok, most people will set their own misgivings aside, in most situations. This is Sociology 101. So everything you said is true.

That said, the whole situation is stupid, starting with an unprepared hospital keeping an ebola patient and CDC not get experts there immediately and making sure the best precautions were taken; if they did, the points you raised should never even have come up. That woman should have had no doubt she couldn't make that flight once she had been exposed until the incubation period was past. For any further care once the risk was known, caregivers should have had the option and those who chose to help in the patient's care should have gotten bonuses for their additional risk, and the inconvenience of the restrictions through the incubation period. It is so friggin' basic.

And you know what? I'm NOT an ebola expert, or even a doctor or nurse. I work in IT. But I can figure this stuff out. And presumably the new "Ebola Czar" can also do that, without an MD after his name. The question is whether he has the management chops to move bullshit out of the way so that the needed hard core preventive /protective actions can be taken. And to deal with funding (Congress? oh gawd ...), because doing the right things are going to take $$$$. Hazard pay for caregivers isn't normally in hospital budgets, I suspect. Not at the ratio that could be needed here anyway. And what about the PPE? There may not even be enough in the manufacturing pipeline if this gets out of hand. Surely there isn't enough staged at the average hospital. (Which is one reason why in most cases patients should probably be moved to one of the few specialist centers for treatment.)