Just read where they are saying the nurse on the flight had a 'slight' fever the day she flew. When are they actually going to treat this like a problem and start making people stay put where they are. Now they have to track down everyone on that flight...
Just to play devils advocate, but what level is it really the government's responsibility? I blame the nurse, who really probably knew she had a "slight fever" and I'm SURE knew she had dealt with an Ebola patient. Not a single person has said a word about her poor decision. So we are blaming the government for failing to anticipate that a person in the medical field was uneducated enough to "inadvertently" expose the people on the plane... and POTENTIALLY EVERYONE ELSE she came in contact with?
Yes I understand that mistakes happen, and that everyone becomes lax with some procedures here and there, but it's not like the first case wasn't all over the media and being made into a big deal that these people didn't have a constant reminder in their faces of what they were dealing with.
The government should only have to focus on restrictions of incoming passengers (which they HAD restrictions in place but the first dude full out lied so it wouldn't have been caught- now we need to consider escalating them). Ensuring that the public utilities are protected, ensuring that the food chain is not contaminated in any way, ensuring that the professionals who are dealing with it are fully trained and aware and focusing on healing those that have contracted it.
It was actually nice to hear how the story played out locally. Woman returns from Liberia, goes to Christian clinic to seek treatment for cold. Doctor believes nothing out of her mouth about not being exposed to Ebola, closes the entire clinic down and arranges transport to the large hospital where she is isolated and tested. While the tests have come back negative, she's still in isolation until the CDC can confirm.
