Why can't these health care workers who've been exposed to Ebola just wait 21 days?

[Ms. Toad]

204. Actually, no. You said that you would go with the CDC guidelines.

I have never said I trusted the CDC guidelines, or those of Dallas Presbyterian, etc., or any other medical institution. They have been wrong too many times. I have pretty good medical intuition, and am usually proven correct. Ebola, so far, is no exception. The CDC has lagged what I have said ought to be done, but it has eventually adopted it. Both as to protective gear and now the criteria for when you isolate and begin treating someone as if they have Ebola until proven differently. I'm glad they now agree with me - but it has been (and will continue to be) my position regardless of what the CDC advocates.

I get it that most people don't work that way. They don't have the personal experience I have of self-diagnosing several personal or family conditions, being told by the doctor I could not possibly be correct, and later on having the conditions confirmed by medical tests - or of refusing medical treatment because I trusted my own reasoning more than the physicians who were treating me (and, again, being proven right to have done so by objective medical testing). So I understand treating medical authority as gods - people do that far more than is healthy, but that is another conversation. But when someone who has been telling me that I don't have enough knowledge/experience/education/etc. to make the call - that the authorities know best - does a 180 and no longer trusts the authority they were using against me, merely because the authorities have adopted what I've been saying all along, it bugs me.