Well it's official, Ebola is here in NYC.

mgh
yes, these selfish ****s who are risking their lives trying to help some of the folks in the poorest countries in the world with an epidemic which is killing over 50% of those infected...thank God you are able to fire up Sonar in NYC!
 
 
 
I seriously cannot believe your post and really really hope you a long and happy life. Unlike this poor doctor may have.

 
Well yours seems to be a common response to anyone who has a problem with this doctor breaking his quarantine to have a night out on the tiles, so I'll address it. 
 
First of all, traveling to Africa to help others isn't a blank check to come home and show an immediate disregard for the health and safety of the people in this country. I don't know why people think it is. Yes, helping the sick and poor is a virtue, we get it. But the guy is supposed to be a doctor, and just a few days after returning home from a gig in which he was at a high risk of contracting the disease, and a full day after he reportedly started "feeling sluggish," he decides that screw this quarantine, I'm going out for meatballs and bowling in one of the busiest cities in the world and I'm going to use public transport. Remember at this point, as far as he was concerned, he might well have Ebola. Did he stop to think what would happen to the businesses he visited should he turn out to test positive? Already they've had to be disinfected from top to bottom at great expense, not to mention any business they may have lost. What if, in his "sluggish" state, he'd suddenly taken a turn for the worse on the subway and vomited? I've sure as hell had the onset of a bout of flu happen during a subway ride before. Got on feeling a little sluggish, and half an hour later I had a cold sweat and was aching all over. Symptoms can come on very quickly. 
 
We're continually told that there was no risk. But if there's no risk involved when a "possible" Ebola patient breaks his quarantine and mingles in crowds, then why a 21 day quarantine in the first place? Why bother? The quarantine period is there for a reason, and it's vital that people who have been identified as "at risk" stick to it. Easy enough to comprehend, yes? So spare me this "how dare you" crap, please. 
 
I read your New York times article, and others like it. Yes the flu kills more people than Ebola. But that's because we haven't had an outbreak of Ebola before, and people generally aren't whisked away to isolation units by hazmat teams when they get it. The flu is, to the vast majority of people, a low risk virus. It only really kills people who are weak to start off with. Ebola has a much higher mortality rate and can kill a strong, fit person very quickly. If it started spreading like flu due to the carelessness of a few people, you could start seeing a hell of a lot more deaths than flu. I really hate this whole "condition X or disease Y kills more people than Ebola" argument. You could say that about anything. Why worry about prostrate cancer, when more people die of breast cancer? Why worry about gun deaths, when more people die of drink driving accidents? The point is that no matter which way you spin it, people are quite legitimately worried about a possible outbreak of a virus which has an extremely high mortality rate. Which is why Dr. Ebowla's getting such a bad press.