re: Ebola prevention demonstration for medical staff

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Why does everyone seem to believe that every hospital in America should be fully equipped for a virus endemic to West Africa which has literally never shown up here before?

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Who is expecting "fully equipped"? Hell, I'd just take basic common sense after this...

1. Duncan was misdiagnosed.
2. Hospital staff has not been properly trained, yet are expected to put their lives on the line to treat any ebola case that comes through the door.
3. Exposed hospital staff are not being told basic preventive measures such as "DON'T TRAVEL."
4. People like Nancy Snyderman and some in Duncan's family don't think the quarantine rules apply to them and potentially expose people anyway.

Don't forget our President and CDC previously said we have nothing to worry about here, it likely won't reach our shores, but we are prepared if it does. It will be stopped in its tracks. I'm not in a panic by any means, but this is just epic incompetence on so many levels.

BTW, have we learned how the NBC cameraman contracted ebola yet?