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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGovernors Cuomo, Christie and Scott (and their defenders) are Ebola-truthers
No different than climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers and other anti-science idiots.
And they should be treated with the same ridicule. They are making the situation worse and their positions on quarantine are not supported by science. Their orders are likely unconstitutional and are inconsistent in many ways.
The mandatory quarantine does not apply to health workers who treat Ebola patients in the US. And the quarantine does not apply to non-health workers arriving from the three West African nations. The policy is both over-inclusive and under-inclusive.
Someone needs to get through to the Governors so that this ignorance does not spread. We need to quarantine the idiocy. An asymptomatic person is not infectious. It is simple as that.
uppityperson
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The woman tested negative for the Ebola virus, but Christie asserted the nurse is obviously ill.
When I left this morning she still had a fever and she was being tested for other illnesses after the Ebola test came back negative, Christie said.
That is a lie. She had no fever and wtf is that about being tested for other illnesses so she needed to stay locked up? No symptoms, not ill, being tested for "other diseases"?
What. The. Fuck?
Anyone "proud of Christie" deserves ridicule.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)It would be great for her and good to have another black mark on Christie, as an unconstitutional autocrat.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Just a guess . . . well . . . not really a guess.
cali
(114,904 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)So far we have had a major worry from a nurse flying to Cleveland and another health worker on a cruise ship.
Shoving your fingers in your ears and yelling LALALALA at the top of your lungs isn't helping. SO STOP IT!!1
KMOD
(7,906 posts)The cruise ship nurse did not have Ebola.
Amber Vinson, was not symptomatic on her flight.
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)Cannot believe people thing it is OK to do this to someone.
JI7
(89,254 posts)the only ones who got it were the nurses who were directed treating him and would have been in contact with his fluids. and in that case we know proper procedures were not followed most likely because of the culture of hostility to regulations in the state and money over care. and that would be a statewide problem as we saw with the warehouse which blew up .
if duncan had been treated as pham, vinson, the ny doctor were right away he mostl ikely would still be alive also.
Logical
(22,457 posts)When the CDC did nothing to either set of passengers except tell them to self monitor.
You are not paying attention.
You are the one spreading incorrect information.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)The worry was all in the worriers heads, with no bias in reality.