I could not sit by and watch my landlord's kid or any other kid laying there dying, unless I had to stay well to care for my own. I just couldn't. I would do my best to put on some personal protective equipment (trashbag, layers of clothing, etc.) and a mask or scarf or something over my nose and mouth and I would get the kid to the hospital.
That said, if I knew the virus was not contagious until you showed symptoms, I'd get on a plane and fly to the U.S. so when the virus was contagious and I needed treatment I'd have a better shot at survival. And I'd make damn sure I didn't leave the hospital didn't release me without a negative ebola test.
I also cannot understand people leaving areas with mass viral outbreaks and not quarantining themselves when they got home. I was in Taiwan for 6 weeks during the peak of the SARS epidemic. I limited interaction with anyone until I had been home a full week. I went to work because I had to, but I worked in a very small office and I restricted myself to my office just to be super extra safe. I took my temperature multiple times a day for the full first week to be sure any elevation of temperature was handled immediately.
I know the general public in Africa probably don't have access to the Google to see what some basic infection control processes area, so I'm not mad that he might not have thought about staying somewhere other than his relative's house. But I *am* mad that the quarantine was not followed when it was issued. I am seriously mad about that.
You are a far better person than I am. For me, a large part of the reason I wouldn't be selfless is because of the incredibly low survival rate of the disease. Neighbor's kid has chicken pox and I haven't had it? Worth the risk to me to help. Neighbor's kid has ebola? Sorry. I don't have it in me to be a heroine.
I doubt I am a better person. But I do know that my friend told me I must be the child of a Catholic-Jewish couple because I carry the weight of guilt associated with both faiths times ten.
I would do it because I couldn't live with the guilt I'd feel after watching a child die, knowing I might have done something to save him or her.
I'm five pages into a google search using those terms. I've come across Dr Phil, Focus on the Family, fundie message boards, Islamic message boards, no pandce or even the nest. So
Also, we are CEP. You're not brand new if you're calling this place PCE.
But ditto heyjude that it is an AE, I wouldn't want her ID coming out based on prior threads. However, if you're a regular who forgot to log out of your AE, just say so instead of lying about google! Especially since she's not doing anything shitty under that AE.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
Is this ole what's her face again who was at the boston bombing and whose evil H ration's her tampons?
What.
Some poster who reincarnates every few years who has "been at" many national and international tragedies once claimed her rich foreign husband only allotted her some tiny amount for tampons. Someone called her out as someone else and that name never returned. This was like only a year ago. I can't be the only one to remember this?
Some poster who reincarnates every few years who has "been at" many national and international tragedies once claimed her rich foreign husband only allotted her some tiny amount for tampons. Someone called her out as someone else and that name never returned. This was like only a year ago. I can't be the only one to remember this?
She's been: brahimbride, geoffreythegiraffe, internetexplorer, and uhhhhh... I don't remember the last one. She's been more.
Some poster who reincarnates every few years who has "been at" many national and international tragedies once claimed her rich foreign husband only allotted her some tiny amount for tampons. Someone called her out as someone else and that name never returned. This was like only a year ago. I can't be the only one to remember this?
She's been: brahimbride, geoffreythegiraffe, internetexplorer, and uhhhhh... I don't remember the last one. She's been more.
She was hippy too right? Of the diaper dust scam fame?
There's someone on one of these boards who can sniff her out a mile away. She's apparently a very paint by numbers AE if you know enough of her history.
You are a far better person than I am. For me, a large part of the reason I wouldn't be selfless is because of the incredibly low survival rate of the disease. Neighbor's kid has chicken pox and I haven't had it? Worth the risk to me to help. Neighbor's kid has ebola? Sorry. I don't have it in me to be a heroine.
I doubt I am a better person. But I do know that my friend told me I must be the child of a Catholic-Jewish couple because I carry the weight of guilt associated with both faiths times ten.
I would do it because I couldn't live with the guilt I'd feel after watching a child die, knowing I might have done something to save him or her.
Not to derail the Lennie Briscoe action going on in here, but the landlords daughter wasn't a child, she was a grown woman. I might risk my life to Ebola for a child - might - but I doubt I would for another adult who isn't a close loved one.
I doubt I am a better person. But I do know that my friend told me I must be the child of a Catholic-Jewish couple because I carry the weight of guilt associated with both faiths times ten.
I would do it because I couldn't live with the guilt I'd feel after watching a child die, knowing I might have done something to save him or her.
Not to derail the Lennie Briscoe action going on in here, but the landlords daughter wasn't a child, she was a grown woman. I might risk my life to Ebola for a child - might - but I doubt I would for another adult who isn't a close loved one.
I think she was pregnant though. So I think that would pull at my heart strings as much as a sick child would.
I just read his nephew called the CDC on him to get him treatment. FUCK that texas hospital. They seriously screwed the pooch on this one. I am wondering if "nurse" is RN or like a triage LPN or Medical assistant. But they all should know better...
Here is what happened: Triaged (vitals taken symptoms charted), waited for nurse. Nurse asks all the medical history question which include "Have you travelled recently" he answers that he came from Liberia but nurse doesn't know where the shit Liberia is and charts it electronically, but doesn't say anything to the doctor about the travel because she doesn't recognize it as relevant, so the ER doc comes in and does his own exam which does NOT include the recent travel question because that's the nurse's job to ask that question and communicate anything relevant there. He sees some dude with a flu-type cold. The big thing everyone who touches his file knows is: no insurance. So they discharge him with a prescription for antibiotics and his diagnosis at that time is "acute lack of insurance." Physician charts his own shit electronically without even looking at what the nurse charted, so never makes the connection to call the guy back. Ta-da: Outbreak. The nurse and the doctor both should be suspended without pay. And I'm usually a big defender of the realities of "human error" in medicine. READ THE FUCKING CHART.