re: Nurse with Ebola given permission to fly by CDC

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The nurse is an idiot for flying.

Let's see, you work daily with a patient that has ebola, the patient dies, you get a fever and you board a flight anyway?????

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I'm comforted by governments around the world taking this so seriously:

quote: Philippine Health Secretary Enrique Ona said authorities will ask more than 1,700 Filipinos working in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to observe themselves for at least 21 days for Ebola symptoms in those countries first if they plan to return home. Once home, they should observe themselves for another 21 days and then report the result of their self-screening to health authorities to be doubly sure they have not been infected, he said, adding that hospitals which would deal with any Ebola patients have already been identified in the Philippines.


I'm sure those 1,700 Filipinos will be all over this voluntary plan, a grand experiment in patient compliance. There won't be any deniers who insist their flu-like symptoms are just a cold or flu. There won't be any who think they're strong like bull and have urgent business that overrides the slim chance they contracted the disease. With measures like these, can there be any doubt the exponential growth will be stopped?

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