<p>I was ready to compliment the doctor on his common sense for self quarantining, like most of us would. Alas, it appears he is as inconsiderate as the other nurse.</p>
<p>I suspect the Dept of Health would do whatever the CDC requested. Travel ban, quarantine, whatever. I don’t hear them complaining their requests aren’t being met.</p>
<p>I wonder if it is being “inconsiderate” as much as being in deep denial. Surely no one could be that inconsiderate to others, not to mention the lack of of concern about one’s own health.</p>
<p>Yup, he went bowling then tested positive for Ebola.
I’m calling him E-bowl-a Doc.</p>
<p><a href=“Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/craig-spencer-is-tested-for-ebola-virus-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html</a>?</p>
<p>ooooh… rimshot.</p>
<p>Why do you think all of a sudden there have been cases of people bringing it here? This outbreak has been going on for quite some time, yet now all of a sudden we get two people who brought it back? Part of me wonders how this didn’t happen sooner, and the other part wonders why now?</p>
<p>“Although they didn’t actually have to test the protocol for treating Ebola patients, I am hoping they would have gotten that part right too.”</p>
<p>“While officials have said they expected isolated cases of the disease to arrive in New York eventually, and had been preparing for this moment for months, the first case highlighted the challenges surrounding containment of the virus, especially in a crowded metropolis.”</p>
<p><a href=“Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/craig-spencer-is-tested-for-ebola-virus-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html</a></p>
<p>“I wonder if it is being “inconsiderate” as much as being in deep denial. Surely no one could be that inconsiderate to others, not to mention the lack of of concern about one’s own health.”</p>
<p>I too thought it was the ostrich syndrome at work both here and in Amber’s case.</p>
<p>^^ Either that or Ebola virus attacks the brain first. </p>
<p>Also, just to be clear–I think both the nurse and the doctor are inherently good people for doing what they were doing to help others. They just got careless.</p>
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<p>Good one.</p>
<p>Yes, Sally, I meant to say that too. Both went in there where not every medical professional would volunteer to go. Both are so young… Hope he pulls through. </p>
<p>Per CNN, he first contacted MSF to report his symptoms. </p>
<p>Still . . . New York isn’t going anywhere. Why not just stay home for another week and order take out? How hard can that be? If you’re monitoring for Ebola and you start to feel punky at day 10 riding the NYC subway should not be tops on your list of things to do. That’s like one of those disaster movies where you know the guy shouldn’t go into the building and nobody in their right mind would and they do anyway. It’s the place where you just have to suspend disbelief for the sake of plot development because who would do that when . . . you know . . . zombies or aliens or giant lizard eggs in the subway tunnels? Where’s Batman when you need him? Does Gotham need to raise the bridges?</p>
<p>I suppose I should have saved that for the hysteria thread but really . . . this isn’t rocket science it’s common sense.</p>
<p>It’s really amazing to me that another highly educated health professional has made this decision. </p>
<p>Rwanda has backed off the American and Spanaird travel quarantine <a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/23/rwanda-backs-down-on-ebola-screening-for-incoming-americans-and-spaniards/”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/23/rwanda-backs-down-on-ebola-screening-for-incoming-americans-and-spaniards/</a> Someone must have woken up and realized they would be biting the hand who feeds them, in the figurative sense.</p>
<p>So now everyone who treats this doctor has to quarantine themselves? Are they all going to stay in the hospital?</p>
<p>And everyone in the bowling alley? How about the fellow passengers in the subway he rode?</p>
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<p>Why would “everyone” in the bowling alley need to be concerned? BODY FLUIDS, people.</p>
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<p>It is not surprising if you start with the premise that being a healthcare professional only says you studied medicine or other related to the healthcare field. That says nothing about whether you do stupid things, in general. Ignorant he is not; stupid is another question. </p>
<p>Don’t you remember the bridal shop? Didn’t they contact everyone who were in the shop at the same time as Vinson?</p>