You most likely can't tell, but I am shedding plenty of tears.
Posted on 10/09/2014 2:24:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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He liked to joke around with his neighbors. And he always gave them a helping hand. The neighbors that Thomas Eric Duncan's generous spirit is what cost him his life.
Duncan, 42, was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and the first to die of the disease on American soil. He likely contracted the disease in Liberia when he carried a pregnant woman, sick with Ebola, into her house after no clinic would admit her.
That was just before Sept. 19, when Duncan flew from Monrovia to Dallas with stopovers in Brussels and Washington, D.C. He was traveling to Texas to visit his fiancee and son. His relatives insist he didn't know he'd been exposed to Ebola when he boarded that fateful flight to the United States.
In East Monrovia, where Duncan rented a room, he was known as "Eric." And he was well-liked by his neighbors.
"Eric is a nice man," says 31-year-old Irene Seyou, who lived next door. "He ain't got a problem with nobody."
She saw him carry the landlord's pregnant daughter into her house just days before he left for the United States. The girl was bleeding profusely from her mouth and could no longer walk, says Seyou.
"Eric helped the family," she says. "He carried her inside."
The pregnant woman died of Ebola the next day. Three other members of her family died from the disease soon after. Yesterday the girl's father was lying on the porch of the house, barely able to lift himself from a mat, his eyes bloodshot in what Ebola doctors refer to as "black and red." Sweat glistened across his cheeks....
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Stupidity, deceit come to mind.
His final joke will be , he infected all his neighbors
Way to expand the potential infection vectors.
I’m sorry this man is dead, but his family and others have nobody to be angry with except a virus. Death happens, folks, especially in Liberia (as opposed to Dallas, for now).
crying on the inside...
Now they are trying to turn him into a gentle unarmed giant with his arms in the air?
Untimely death is always a tragedy. God never takes pleasure in suffering
Ted Bundy was a pretty nice guy too.
There were both murderers though...
So he knew the woman had Ebola and that is why no clinic would treat her
His relatives insist he didn't know he'd been exposed to Ebola when he boarded that fateful flight
They can insist till the cows come home, but he did know he had been exposed and he had no right to expose the 1,000s of people that he did..No gave no helping hand to his neighbors on the plane or in the US..
I noticed that they conveniently skirted the issue that he was living in the same house with the pregnant woman, and knew she was sick for a while, which is why he quit his job and took off for the US.
So... for at least SEVERAL DAYS he knew she was sick. Bleeding from the mouth and could no longer walk.
Like on of ny Soldiers, who was from Angola once told me “In Africa Life is hard.”
Looks like all the journo-listers are in lock step on this one.
Give me a f-n break.
Everybody is a f-n ‘victim’ now except for us.
The guy was a scumbag for bringing the disease here.
That is my opinion.
If there was stop in D.C. why did he not ask for medical help then? No pity here!
I guess I’m a horrible person, I don’t care! Not about him, but about all the people those like him put at risk.
Well with Obola the assclown`s help, he gave US a hand, full of Obola`s Ebola. Stop all flights from west africa.
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