For those who flamed me all day today:
I’m just crazy and evil and mean for repeatedly suggesting the health care workers should have used a lick of common sense or they will infect someone else or the hysteria is going to cause a national over-reaction with real quarantines and travel bans:
Texas health officials have ordered any person who entered the room of the first Ebola patient at a Dallas hospital not to travel by public transport, including planes ship, buses or trains, or visit groceries, restaurants or theaters for 21 days, until the danger of developing Ebola has passed.
Now, they need to make sure that these people who are having their lives disrupted are being taken care of- reimburse them for planned travel tickets and vacations, give them time off for the days they will basically be confined to their homes, make sure they are getting help with groceries and what not, etc. They ought to be given hazard pay, too. Let this virus burn out in Texas, get things back to normal and stop scaring the shit out of the easily hysterical, and then, for the love of everything holy, train them and provide them with adequate equipment and do a top-down review of the clown show that is the upper administration at Texas Presbyterian, as that is where the real problem lies. And cross your fingers that it ends there and Vinson didn’t infect anyone else.
Again, I think that these guys shouldn’t have to have been told they shouldn’t be on planes and trains and cruise ships, but you know me, what with the witches to burn and everything. I’m just a dick that way. Seriously, though, I wouldn’t have done that and honestly think it is stupid. Maybe that is because I am particularly risk averse, knowing that I can injure myself sitting in a rocking chair. But I never in a million years, after handling an Ebola patient, particularly in a shitty situation without the right equipment and training, would have done something like that.
To everyone suggesting I should have apologized, lemme just give you a big fat I TOLD YOU SO. Let’s hope it stops here, and let’s hope this calms the rabble, but if there are cases related to the Texas shitshow, there’s going to be more mandated quarantines and travel bans and who knows what else. It’s an election year, so the public over-reaction to anything is going to be at eleven because of irresponsible politicians and media. Remember, we’re still taking our shoes off before we board a plane ten years after precisely ONE jackass unsuccessfully tried to blow up an aircraft with his Chucky T’s.
