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[uppityperson]

150. Self monitoring and reporting has worked so far with every health care worker in USA who has gotten

ebola.

Yes, I do shame those who question this system, who say doctors and nurses are incapable of taking their own temperatures and monitoring themselves for symptoms and getting help when it is needed, who say this system has not worked when facts show it has.

We try to educate over and over and over that ebola is not that simple to catch, that exposure to an infectious person's bodily excretions, vomit, diarrhea, into a mucuous membrane or opening of the skin is needed. Yet there are those who continue to fear non-infectious, non-contagious people and want them involuntarily locked up.

There are those who call for all health care workers returning from W Africa to be quarantined yet ignore those here in the USA who have worked in facilities where ebola patients were or cared for them. There are those who say all of those people in the USA should be under a 21 day quarantine.

There are those who say locking up someone for 21 days isn't that big of a deal, regardless of whether or not they are contagious, regardless of whether or not self monitoring has worked as it should. There is media who is doing rapid vs accurate reporting, stirring up more fears to drive up readership.

I do not think "medical professionals are heroes and courageous" makes them better than anyone or are "incapable of making mistakes" as someone else put it. But I very much disagree with posters whose fears lead them to call for involuntary locking up of people who are not contagious, who have shown self monitoring and reporting works.