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In reply to the discussion: I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)106. No other person even questioned them continuing to work
Nurse Vinson did us a huge favor by showing the awful rot and lack of core competence in the system.
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I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined [View all]
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
OP
I don't blame the nurse for flying. If she can be blamed for anything it is for putting trust in the
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2014
#2
How is he going to answer any questions except, I'll get back to you on that"?
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#6
I suspect people want to feel like it is contained geographically, that's part of it.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2014
#10
From where I sit, unless there's a sea change, the people who actually did fuck up, i.e.,
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#117
I think Texas Presbyterian is a non-profit hospital, part of a larger holding group that
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#153
No one - Marx and Lenin included - ever said the transition to socialism
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#180
I would assume that the hospital might face some law suits that could cost them a bit of money and
jwirr
Oct 2014
#160
That's why it's vital for Texas to elect Abbott as Governor, so that those who were harmed
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#168
Public awareness. Yes,they seemed to care more about it as public reactions than public health issue
suffragette
Oct 2014
#126
And, ironically, the nurses are the only ones whom have contracted Ebola
Proud Liberal Dem
Oct 2014
#107
the nurses were exposed right up to the bitter end, when the virus takes completely
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#161
You would think the people who dealt directly with Mr Duncan are hot properties for interviews
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#169
I notice you have still not provided a link supporting your assertion that they were still working.
Ms. Toad
Oct 2014
#173
You're right, I don't have any absolute proof, spent a while looking and just decided to fly with it
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#179
First off, it's different for equals to use juvenile terms among themselves to describe themselves.
Gormy Cuss
Oct 2014
#182
I have a hard time thinking of a legal job more physically intimate than a nurse
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#8
The answer to your question is that capitalism doesn't really care about the lives of
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#119
i may have been too young to get Quincy w/ jack klugman, but even i would have been
pansypoo53219
Oct 2014
#11
In that case anyone not naturally immune would have been dead for a few decades now
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#17
Why are you so dedicated to defending this woman's selfish/idiotic actions?
LostInAnomie
Oct 2014
#15
She obeyed authority, did what they said she should do and then what they said she could do
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#121
This is such garbage. She made a decision NOT to purchase travel insurance for those tickets
mnhtnbb
Oct 2014
#21
No. In fact, I'm a retired hospital administrator married to an MD who is scared
mnhtnbb
Oct 2014
#31
Phrases that should not be used while making conclusions: 'my hunch is that' and 'I imagine she'
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2014
#51
Can you explain to me then why the nurses were still working up until Vinson's flight drew attention
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#60
I am not--and if you look at my posts for the last few days have never--defended the hospital.
mnhtnbb
Oct 2014
#90
All I can do is speculate about the challenges faced by nursing admins in staffing
mnhtnbb
Oct 2014
#146
Allow me to restate your position (with which I agree 1000%) as simply as possible:
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#123
I have never criticized her decision not to purchase travel insurance. I simply offered the
mnhtnbb
Oct 2014
#91
+Infinity. If there's one thing I despise even more than Republicans, it's self-satisfied
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#124
The bigger offense is implying she was making the decision based on money loss!!!
lunasun
Oct 2014
#172
Why should she have needed 'travel insurance' if she had called the airlines to tell them
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#175
The nurses had to go through the national union to speak up about what was going on there
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#42
Well, as it happens, you're the one who is wrong. The nurses at this particular
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#137
I think most of these "holier than thou" types would have done just the same thing
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#28
I like how everyone ignores the fact the Ebola exposed nurses had been working
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#34
I don't understand your sentence: "had been working." What? I mean, isn't that the point?
WinkyDink
Oct 2014
#35
Up until the travel brouhaha the nurses had continued with their dail lives, including work..
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#39
I think I read that the CDC (or TX Dept. of Health) confirmed that she had called but
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#125
About 15 years ago one of my patients came down with mumps 2 days after I saw her
newfie11
Oct 2014
#38
Right, but mumps is a highly contagious airborne disease so the guidelines are different.
Yo_Mama
Oct 2014
#77
you go above and contact the CDC. This is analogous to an employer telling an employee to do
still_one
Oct 2014
#43
I can't believe that anyone who has to work for a living is allowing her to
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#128
Was she also not supposed to err on the side of caution by refusing to go to work?
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#56
American capitalism is fucked up. Health care delivery is part of that capitalism. Otherwise, spot
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#129
And besides, it's so much more fun to beat up on a helpless individual than a faceless bureaucracy
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#115
Sorry, that's not going to fly with me....Both the system and she was at fault.
Lars39
Oct 2014
#181
To the hospital (and to American captialism writ large), Nurse Vinson was a disposable
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#132
It isn't clear to me if it's the same people screaming, but yes, there are people
HereSince1628
Oct 2014
#108
Yes, but HCW also acquire a strong determination to avert unnecessary disease and death
Yo_Mama
Oct 2014
#80
Nurse Vinson did us a huge, huge favor and is getting figuratively burned at the stake for it
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#109
You have completely missed the point of the OP. If Nurse Vinson was such a threat by
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#136
Anyone who can take a vacation can afford to take a few weeks off? Really.
TheKentuckian
Oct 2014
#135
It's like the "reverse socialism' we saw during the Financial Crisis of 2008-09 when
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#141
No, what you expect is for wage earners to eat it to cover screw ups by administrations
TheKentuckian
Oct 2014
#162
What you expect is for working people to give up the fruits of their labor and/or earned benefits
TheKentuckian
Oct 2014
#190
During the Polio Epidemic in the 50s only the families that actually had the disease were actually
jwirr
Oct 2014
#157
Did you by any chance live in a city? I was in a rural area. That may have been the difference. As
jwirr
Oct 2014
#213
Would you be comfortable with being nursed by one of the Ebola exposed staff?
Fumesucker
Oct 2014
#164
Exactly. If she was traveling and got Sx, stop. If she was working, got sx, stop. If she was at the
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#178
Indeed. And a cruise ship would not be a good place to be if symptoms did start.
Chemisse
Oct 2014
#194
So if she is sitting on the plane at that time, how do you propose she "stopped."
LisaL
Oct 2014
#188
I could be wrong, but I don't think the symptoms come on all of a sudden in a particular moment.
Chemisse
Oct 2014
#195
Well, if you don't know the exact moment you get the symptoms, then how are you going to stop
LisaL
Oct 2014
#209