Have you touched an Ebola Patient’s Puke, Sweat, Sh*t, or Blood? If Not, You Don’t Have Ebola.

[Ms. Toad]

82. It is not hysterical nonsense

to encourage people who have medical training to actually use their training when it comes to Ebola, which we don't do when we let any of them (including Ms Vinson) off the hook. I am not letting the real culprits - which, in this case, include all three of Ms Vinson, the CDC, and Texas Presbyterian - off the hook. All three made stupid mistakes.

All of those mistakes that each of them made needs to be publicly acknowledged so we know what they were, and to discourage people from making them in the future.

The message that it is fine and dandy to ignore your medical training because someone else said it was OK is a potentially deadly message - and I think it is important to stop that message cold. As mobile as we are in this country, everyone needs to start using common sense to avoid transmission of Ebola or we risk an epidemic that is potentially worse than Africa. If you know have been exposed - and you experience flu-like symptoms or any temperature - assume you have Ebola until it is confirmed you don't. Period.