Well, I have been following along, but not posting much. I guess it caught my interest, since I was in Dallas this past weekend for my mom's birthday. My thoughts are that this man was very selfish, sorry. I love nothing more in this world than my family, especially my husband and two children and yes I probably would have lied on the intake form so I could get to better health care, but upon arrival to the states, I would ABSOLUTELY have fessed up to authorities that I had been exposed (maybe I would have even lied and said that the family I had helped had called me on my cell phone to tell me she did have Ebola) so that then I would have been quarantined. I WOULD NOT under any circumstances even on a slim chance, have exposed my dearest loves to something like this. That is where I think this man was a selfish SOB, sorry.
To the hospital that missed it, I had a former friend who wanted to be a nurse. She failed the entry test about 10 times before they finally lowered the grade needed to be accepted into the LVN program at this particular school (Houston, tx) before she was finally admitted and passed and is now licensed. She didn't ever follow the news, read the paper, or anything like that and I am fairly sure this is why the information was not immediately deciminated to the attending physician and RN overseeing him. She or he probably had no idea there was an outbreak in Liberia. There are lots and lots of people, unfortunately, who would much rather watch reality TV or Netflix movies and have no real idea or handle on what is going on in the world. This person would probably not realize how critical the information they were being told was, kwim?
Finally, I personally am glad this is coming to light and people are talking about, even catastrophizing about it because it is now causing more hospitals to do testing and hopefully no more cases like this will crop up.
I don't know what to think about the shoddy cleanup job being done, or the reports that family members are not complying with the quarantine. That is just wrong on so many levels, it makes America look foolish at best.
