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B2G

(9,766 posts) Thu Oct 23, 2014, 10:59 PM Oct 2014

Ebola: So here's the problem [View all]

We have no isolation protocal for those returning/coming over.

We got lucky in NYC in that the patient was a doctor. He immeiately called EMT when he started running a fever. We're told that he posed no risked by his previous escursions...I guess we just have to take that on faith for now.

What about the other 150 people coming over from the hot zones daily? Regular people who aren't medical professionals who we are trusting to self monitor? There is no mechanism to track them. We have no way of knowing at what point in their potential illness they may contact athorities and how many peopple are exposed in the interium.

This is going to become one big ugly mess.

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Ebola: So here's the problem [View all] B2G Oct 2014 OP

Well that does it. I guess we all might as well slit our wrists now. notadmblnd Oct 2014 #1

No, better yet -- let's send all the Ebola patients home from the ER with antibiotic prescriptions! pnwmom Oct 2014 #20

Ebola: so here's the problem uppityperson Oct 2014 #2

So it makes no sense to establish quarantine procedures here? B2G Oct 2014 #3

Force people to live where for 21 days? Hotel, they got jobs probably.... Logical Oct 2014 #14

And every case we get over here requires contact tracing, too, doesn't it? Warren DeMontague Oct 2014 #19

And in Liberia this big ugly mess began with a single case in April 2014. pnwmom Oct 2014 #21

They now have to enter the country through LiberalElite Oct 2014 #4

And then what? B2G Oct 2014 #5

and then if they're not symptomatic they're free - LiberalElite Oct 2014 #6

What? B2G Oct 2014 #7

No. It was rather open-ended. nt pnwmom Oct 2014 #22

they apparently are asking them for their travel plans, asking them to self-monitor and magical thyme Oct 2014 #11

Plus a 21-day watch. moondust Oct 2014 #9

Well, if worse comes to worse, ZombieHorde Oct 2014 #8

When absolutely nobody catches it from this guy will you all finally stop freaking out? LeftyMom Oct 2014 #10

this renegade000 Oct 2014 #12

And the person who shared a bed with that sweating, sick, puking and shitting guy didn't even get it LeftyMom Oct 2014 #13

Absolutely not. The ignorance spreads faster than Ebola. morningfog Oct 2014 #15

^this Marrah_G Oct 2014 #16

Do you think his fianc� wasn't exposed, either? n/t pnwmom Oct 2014 #23

Thomas Duncan's fiance is alive and well, and she was far more exposed to a far sicker patient. LeftyMom Oct 2014 #25

People who want to be afraid will continue to be afraid Marrah_G Oct 2014 #17

Don't you think people in W Africa count? Of course it's a big ugly mess, as uppityperson said. pnwmom Oct 2014 #24

that's changing as of the 27th TorchTheWitch Oct 2014 #18

Well NY and NJ are now formally, forcibly quarantining all returning medical personnel kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #26

Why don't you do us both a favor B2G Oct 2014 #28

Most of the people coming in will be health care professionals. A few will be businessmen Warpy Oct 2014 #27