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Fred Sanders

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8. To go to an impoverished country, from a rich country, and risk your life and health to help the

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 09:58 PM

Oct 2014

sick and poor, to sacrifice your own well being and the riches of an American doctor...and to then come back to your rich and paranoid nation to be greeted as a monster...fuck that.

Against all the scientific evidence, bowing to public pressure and paranoia, fuck that too.

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Possible new Ebola patient hospitalized in Newark, NJ: another staffer at Doctors Without Borders. [View all] pnwmom Oct 2014 OP

It's no "alarm" at all. NJ has instituted a policy of formally, forcibly quarantining all returning kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #1

Except that this person has a fever, so Ebola is more than an abstract possibility. n't pnwmom Oct 2014 #2

They are saying she developed a fever. LisaL Oct 2014 #3

yup scarystuffyo Oct 2014 #5

and peter king sabbat hunter Oct 2014 #4

Chris Christie announced today that anyone returning to NJ from a West African country would be notadmblnd Oct 2014 #6

Why is that any different than the CDC ordering Dr. Nancy Snyder and her staff pnwmom Oct 2014 #7

Did I express an opinion in regards to what I wrote? notadmblnd Oct 2014 #9

Because one has no fucking symptoms? Because the fucking science is being thrown aside to soothe Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #10

Swwwweaaaaaty fingers.... Swwweatty fingers.... notadmblnd Oct 2014 #11

So each State can declare their own foreign entry parameters? What happened to federal powers? Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #12

State laws give the Governors the power to quarantine in certain circumstances. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #13

I don't know the legalities notadmblnd Oct 2014 #14

Technically, they are covered, but I think a lawsuit based on unwarranted panic in the face of the Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #15

To go to an impoverished country, from a rich country, and risk your life and health to help the Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #8

local tv says her symptoms are getting worse. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #16

Can only hope she recovers etherealtruth Oct 2014 #17

I hope so. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #18

Darn, I thought maybe she was just getting dehydrated LeftInTX Oct 2014 #19

They said her fever spiked but these early reports have been wrong before. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #20