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135. Lack of information and decent treatment?

Did she know when she got on the plane what to expect when she landed in the US? If I understand correctly, no one told her; also when she landed the entire process was a clusterf**k and she only got what information she specifically asked for, if the askee even knew the answer.

Perhaps had she received full information about what to expect, and if the people dealing with her had been respectful of the challenge and inconvenience placed on her, she might have a different attitude.

Although, the quarantine idea does not seem to be widely accepted by medical professionals. Because it isn't considered medically or rationally justified, and it imposes a huge cost that is likely to diminish the world's response to the crisis and thus cause MORE suffering and death.

But for purpose of discussion, let's say quarantine IS justified. Assuming Kaci's story is accurate, is this how it should be done?

By the way, all those doctors and nurses already in Africa and expecting to return to their regular practices and hospital duties shortly after their scheduled return - now they will be returning to those practices and duties 21 days later than expected. Who is going to treat their patients in the meantime? This throws hospital staffing into a total mess. Let's say that it's warranted - what do we do about it? And how do we keep sending doctors and nurses over there to help treat ebola at the source, when we throw this restriction into the equation? What happens if US health care professionals just stop going there? More brown people will die. But for people who don't care about that, consider that the longer the epidemic continues in Africa, the more chance there is that more ebola cases in NON healthcare workers will make it to the US. These are the cases that are more likely to put average members of the public at risk.