Over the past few weeks I've just become angryed beyond my wildest dreams at the sheer stupidity of people involved in this outbreak. Coming home from infected areas of Africa and going out for soup, flying on planes, taking cruises, you name it. Some of them so-called health "professionals." The selfishness and recklessness of these idiots just fills me with despair. 


So the latest idiot flies home to New York after working with Ebola victims in Africa, becomes sick with a fever and has now been tested positive for the disease in Bellevue hospital just a little ways up from me on 1st Avenue. And what was he doing the night before the fever started? Why he took an Uber cab to Brooklyn and went bowling. Now that place has been closed down until further notice and god only knows what will happen to it. It'll probably end up costing them hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and disinfection, that's if they don't lose their business entirely. 
 
All because a "doctor" (and I use the term loosely) decided that quarantine wasn't for him and that he'd just head out into the throngs of New York and have a night out on the town. Yes I am ******* livid. God knows how many lives he's put at risk. They should strike him off. Grrrr!

I completely understand and agree with everything you said...and I'll add, it's utterly stupid to allow anyone into this country from those areas until they have waited in quarantine and are 100% sure they are not infected. It's common sense.

They all should have listened to Bill O'Reilly.

I cannot believe the hubris of some of these healthcare "professionals" involved in this. And frankly I'm becoming very cynical about the motive of some of the people who go out to work with Ebola patients in Africa. Not everyone of course, but especially this guy. I have a feeling he thought his Doctors Without Borders involvement would look good on his resume and score him brownie points, not least of all give him something to brag about at dinner parties. If he's so unconcerned about the lives of the people at home that he goes out on the town days after returning home, BEFORE he was given the all clear, and reportedly AFTER he started feeling "sluggish" the day before, then what does that say about him as a humanitarian? Well, I guess he wasn't going to get any social media brownie points for showing humanitarian concern for the people of New York was he. 

My wife and I were just discussing what a stupid, selfish move it was.

We have been saying all of these same things in Dallas for several weeks now. I don't understand why we are not taking this seriously, shutting down flights from the infected areas of N Africa and quarantining any one who has come from these areas for 21 days. This could get completely out of control if pockets of Ebola start popping up all over the U.S..

To be honest I'm not that worried about catching it myself. It's the people he's come into direct contact with that I'm angry for. His girlfriend is probably going to be infected. The people who live in his building in Harlem are bound to be freaking out. Bellevue isn't one of the best organized hospitals in New York, that's for sure - and you can bet your ass that, like most other hospitals which have been involved with this disease, mistakes are being made and protocols being ignored by careless people. I have first hand experience with Bellevue and how it's run. Not that impressed. You can also bet your ass that there will have been some careless people involved in his transportation from Harlem to Bellevue too. I know all too well how things go down in this city....lol!
 
And what about the bowling alley he went to last night? They possibly stand to lose their business after this. Hysteria or not, who's going to want to go to the Ebola Alley? At the very least they're going to have to clean and disinfect the place from top to bottom. Yet no matter how thoroughly they do that, you know what people are like: "Shall we go to the bowling alley?"..."No way man, that dude with Ebola was there..."
 

I've been wondering that lack of quarantine as well. I would've guessed it's the most obvious and effective action. We're going to pay dearly for that, maybe.

Yep, my wife is an RN and night house supervisor. It gets more concerning than that. Out of the blue the sup's were told they were responsible for training all the nurses on protocol. Wait, shouldn't that mean we should be trained? So, after working her 4th straight 12 hour shift she had to stay three more hours and sit in front of a TV screen with a handout and watch a video. Really??

Then there are the hospital administrators whose bottom line is $$$ - "oh the gowns and gloves will suffice - let's tape up some plastic sheeting in this hallway and we can contain them there." Really?

Then there are the beauro-politi-speaks fluent in vague speech (to save their own butt) who have no clue how to contruct and implement a basic plan of action and see it through. Really?

This isn't a panic thing - it's a reasonable, responsible, logical attempt at conversation and action. But it only works if the above are actually honest, forthright, & willing to do the hard thing regardless of cost or inconvenience.

Ya, Remember Washington D. C. has Obola and something may have to be done to New York to contain the Ebola, while the rest of the Nation concerns its self with Ibola, and Ubola, and the Abola goes away in every detail with rubber rooms and others dressed up in costumes containing it all.
 
You may have to just consider to leave the Big Rotten Apple in the end.