<p>“Um…that hypothetical scenario means it’s not over-reacting.”</p>
<p>The Principal from Mississippi was in Zaire. 3000 miles from the countries were the outbreaks are. Are you telling me that the parents were not over reacting pulling their kids out of school? </p>
<p>collegealum,
If you are talking to actual dogs here, they are more easily quarantined. Problem solved.</p>
<p>^You might want to spell-check your post, jym.</p>
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<p>OK, I thought the principal was in a place like Liberia. There are many people who are against self-quarantining of people who are coming from Liberia and the other ebola hotspots.</p>
<p>I feel like freaking out about something when one can’t even get basic facts straight (ie where the principal was) is the very definition of hysteria… </p>
<p>Maybe people would stop freaking out if the authorities didn’t keep making stupid mistakes. </p>
<p>I did correct the typo, collegealum. Fat fingers, fast typing and small keyboard is a bad mix. I did spell-check. You might want to fact check. Big difference. This school principal was not near an ebola ravaged country. Africa is a big continent.</p>
<p>Did “authorities” erroneously state that the principal was in Liberia or another closely infected state?</p>
<p>And no, as someone who works in Public Health, even when things are done as darn close to “perfectly” as humanly possible, you’re still going to have people freaking out. We’re very distrustful as a nation and that trend has been here for decades, regardless of what is going on or who is in charge. </p>
<p>Anyone else having flashbacks to the TSA screeners asking travelers from Washington DC and New Mexico for their passports?? Time for a geography lesson.</p>
<p>Maybe people would stop blaming the authorities if they stopped, um, freaking out about mixed up details. There’s a somewhat scathing article in the Guardian about this mixing up of African countries and what may be behind it.</p>
<p>Imo, this distrust has a lot to do with social media and how people feel empowered to get on their soapboxes, whether or not they know whereof they speak. Liberia, Zaire, what’s the difference, eh? This idea they’re all coming to get you. </p>
<p>Welp, this just came up as a sentence in a book I’m reading. Just going to leave it here…</p>
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<p>(Book: Michelle Mitchell’s Righteous Propagation)</p>
<p>How did two nurses contract ebola when everyone was reassured that the chances of contracting it in those ‘hazmat suits’ were minute?</p>
<p>Is it true that there were large gaps in the protection gear? If that was against protocol, then why didn’t someone say anything when they arrived. I also heard that they sent the wrong size suits originally.</p>
<p>Then after the first nurse was exposed, she goes out and interacts with the community. Was wedding dress shopping really necessary? Is that really part of protocol? </p>
<p>The Vinson thing is a mess too. Apparently, she had a temperature before flying. She suspected she was coming down with something and was concerned, but her superiors apparently told her to stop worrying.</p>
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<p>What difference does it make where they came from? It is already established fact that there is little risk in having people from Liberia fly in. if they have symptoms later, tell 'em to check into the hospital at some point.</p>
<p>To be scrupulously accurate, the principal was in Zambia. Thousands of miles from West Africa (much farther than Zaire.) And this exchange points out the problem–not the country mis-naming, but the underlying assumptions. Collegealum, you read the synopsis and just assumed he must have been in the infected area. That’s apparently what the parents did, too. no one seems capable of checking the facts before speaking (or for that matter, checking a map.)</p>
<p>College alum PLEASE check your facts! Good grief.</p>
<p>And to be accurate, the wedding shopper was victim 2. And not her supervisors-- maybe you’re having a spot of fun there, collegealum. She called CDC and was told the threshold was higher than her temp. While it’s true she’s now diagnosed, has anyone else been, from her family, the places she visited or the plane?</p>
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<p>In that case, never mind. My apologies. I didn’t realize it was the CDC that told her that her rising temperature wasn’t so high that she might have coming down with ebola. I guess the cost-benefit ratio of flying vs. not flying tipped toward the former.</p>
<p>^^^you’ve also mischaracterized the actions of Nurse 1. ALSO at the time it is believed that the 2 nurses were infected they were not wearing hazmat.</p>
<p>Gawd, collegealum I hope this is just an oversight, not that you’re proving how easy it is to carry forth misinfo. Maybe we need to quarantine you and anyone you discussed this with-? </p>
<p>Have not yet read anything that definitively says HOW or WHEN the two nurses were infected. Do not believe that has been firmly established. There is information that some care was provided to Duncan without appropriate gear and that the gear that was used on Duncan left portions of healthcare workers’ bare skin exposed while caring for Duncan.</p>
<p>It has been speculated that the nurses were infected during the time they were not wearing the gear that they eventually began wearing which provided complete coverage. </p>