Ebola

I second that ^^

I completely agree with Android 18's post. While I don't condone their response to possibly having Ebola, I do understand it.

You may think you'll act a certain way under certain circumstances(Most of us probably believe we'd be heroes in times of crisis) but you'll never know until you're in a life-threatening situation.

She asked you to understand, not agree and approve of the woman's actions.

I know and I don't understand why she decided to fly to another state, with 150 people, knowingly sick with a possible disease that is deadly, to go see her family. I don't understand it because it was wrong. Plain and simple. lol

timone317 just nailed it.

@android 18 I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it's like this. Would you go home to cappy if you were just with an ebola-infected person and had a 99.5 fever that was rising? No, you would not. This nurse basically did that.

Adrenaline-- the thing about moving her to Atlanta is because the hospital in Dallas only has 1 isolation room, not two, so they can't handle 2 patients. In fact, they are moving the first nurse from Dallas to I think Maryland today. I haven't had time to read why.

Brown-- The 1 guy in the US who is a doctor who survived Ebola wasn't able to donate blood to Duncan because he wasn't a match for his blood type. In Africa, they don't do blood typing, and so they will transfer any survivor's blood to someone with it, and that can help, but donating blood to an incompatible blood type causes other problems (that you'd have to google, because I'm not educated on them).

Wave-- To me, it isn't even being a hero. Staying home instead of getting on a plane to go plan your wedding isn't that big of a deal to miss out on. That would be called "being responsible". If I potentially had ebola, I'd put my life on hold until I was sure I was safe. I would put my wedding on hold, that's for darn sure.

Adrenaline again-- I agree with most of what you said, what the 29 year old woman did was selfish and stupid. Anybody who purposely puts others at risk for a deadly disease is a total idiot no matter what their job or anything else is. It's exactly as bad as a person knowing they have HIV and purposefully having sex without a condom. It's irresponsible, and is basically using yourself as a biological weapon. The CDC having some idiot tell her she could go was just as bad. If that were my job, I'd be like "Hell no! Call 911 and get out of a public place!" or whatever the proper protocol would be. The "Oh, well she wasn't to 100.4 degrees" is lunacy.

I think the problem with many of the replies (and readers who aren't replying) who may be disagreeing, is that you are not all following the coverage of this news daily, or are not even in the US. Perhaps you're even believing incorrect information spread by government officials, who are still trying to prevent economic problems and panic (though there isn't much reason to panic at the moment, particularly if you aren't in Dallas near where all this stuff is going down). If you were following the news daily, you'd be a lot more concerned. The US is not prepared for this disease, the likelihood of dying from it if you get it is higher than your chances of living (and if you live, you're likely to have health problems the rest of your life from the Ebola trying to turn all of your organs into a slushie), and preventing getting if exposed is incredibly difficult. Even N95 (typical hospital) face masks can't block the virus, because it's so small that it will slip right through. By not realizing these things, you're arguing that 2 + 2 = 5.

M5, with his medical occupation, has a good point of view, but he doesn't know the US, because he's in Israel, where they do encounter diseases similarly threatening as Ebola. In the US, the worst we typically get is the flu, and as you all know, chicken noodle soup and some rest will eventually get you over the flu. The flu is comparable to getting flicked in the ear, while Ebola is like getting kicked in the balls and then having them cut off. That's how much different the "scary" flu is from ebola. You could sleep all you wanted, and take as much Azithromyacin or Tamiflu as you want with ebola, and it's not going to care.

Flu = Raditz. Ebola = LSS Broly.

But the question is... what can you do?

Honestly, there really isn't that much a person can do, without going through great expense and being overprotected 99% of the time. Being aware, informed, and conscientious of your actions would be a good start. Being mindful in public bathrooms that pretty much any liquid you see (or don't see) could potentially be from a sick person, and start opening the door with a paper towel!

Personally, I've given up on shaking hands, but have not yet regressed to flipping people off who reach for my hand and saying "What are you trying to do?!"

I work in a hospital and in the medical field and dealt with the Swine Flu here. Of course that wasn't as big a deal as people originally believed it to be but I do have to say that if we are to stop outbreaks like this a strict solution is best. Not to quote a fictional character but Spock did say once, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”. Yes it's true. We can't be light about potential life threatening diseases that could wipe out a mass amount of people. I do support strict isolation and containment and working in this industry you have no idea how scary it is to deal with patients in isolation and the nurses don't tell you what they have. You have no idea what you could get or bring home to your loved ones.
On the other hand, I do see how awful it would be to be that patient who has one of these diseases not being able to touch or hold your loved ones and being so alone. That right there would be enough for some people to want to kill themselves.
Both options suck but with society being squished into large cities were you can't avoid people if you tried, this just facilitates the spread of these types of diseases at a faster and faster rate.