"I had spent a month watching children die alone". It is still the land of the brave, she proves it. [View all]

[Fred Sanders]

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How Not To Treat Health Care Workers Returning From West Africa, NY-NJ Edition

"I had spent a month watching children die, alone. I had witnessed human tragedy unfold before my eyes. I had tried to help when much of the world has looked on and done nothing.

At the hospital, I was escorted to a tent that sat outside of the building. The infectious disease and emergency department doctors took my temperature and other vitals and looked puzzled. “Your temperature is 98.6,” they said. “You don't have a fever but we were told you had a fever.”

After my temperature was recorded as 98.6 on the oral thermometer, the doctor decided to see what the forehead scanner records. It read 101. The doctor felts my neck and looked at the temperature again. “There’s no way you have a fever,” he said. “Your face is just flushed.”

My blood was taken and tested for Ebola. It came back negative.

I sat alone in the isolation tent and thought of many colleagues who will return home to America and face the same ordeal. Will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?

I recalled my last night at the Ebola management center in Sierra Leone. I was called in at midnight because a 10-year-old girl was having seizures. I coaxed crushed tablets of Tylenol and an anti-seizure medicine into her mouth as her body jolted in the bed."

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/nurse-detained-new-jersey-upon-return-west

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If you were to read epidemiologist, nurse and super hero Kaci Hickox's letter to the American public, and you believe in medical science (I know you do) you will want to put Governor Christie and Governor Cuomo in a steel cage and hang it in a tree for public display, not even an unheated isolation tent with no visitors and food and water tossed in at regular intervals.

And keep them there until they admitted to the pandering.

Folks here unanimously must realize that to stop Ebola it has to be stopped in West Africa...do they not? Really, you there with the new IPad and the itchy keyboard fingers, how do you not know that?

Reject the fear, fuck the pandering politicians, hug a scientist today, they are your ONLY line of defence. Who thinks the TV talking heads and pandering, posturing, prancing, dancing no nothing politicians are going to go to Sierrra Leona and dispense their wisdom and Ebola because it is not me. Politicians are elected to make decisions, it is not optional to make stupid anti-science ones.

As much as Ebola tries to kill you, it is these medical heroes that will kill Ebola...these are medical troops...we do support our troops, right? Tell me the difference, I am curious, I could be the one being hysterical, right?

What an embarrassment to the country this pandering to the public is, not unlike the embarrassing infection of science denial seen right here at science loving DU...I am shocked and appalled at the overall membership of this site not consisting solely of science lovers. It should be mandatory, this love.

Yes, I said it, let the histironics begin, we should have a purity test also and this is it: believe the fucking science, believe the President, or go join Fox News.

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