Most nurses make a good income, typically middle class moms with kids at home and with a built-in nurturing/protective mentality - it’s why they became nurses.
They won’t expose their own children to Ebola.
If this moves past isolated events, the much vaunted first world health care system that will supposedly lead to a different outcome here: it will collapse in hours when few health care workers show up to work.
I wonder what kinds of incentives Dallas Presbyterian is handing out right now to staff their one patient.
Would YOU go to work everyday in your neighborhood hospital’s Ebola ward?
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/10/us_hospitals_ready_to_treat_eb.html
Check out the pictures of the costumes the nurses and physicians at this hospital reportedly will wear to treat an Ebola patient. If I were a nurse there, I wouldn’t go to work.
“The Hot Zone” describes in great detail what it is like to work in a Biosafety Level 4 facility in a full space suit. Extremely hot, positively pressurized so you can barely move, limited battery time to supply air, the constant risk of punctures, face shields fogging over, seven minute showers of disinfectant after leaving the hot zone...few nurses signed up for this kind of duty.
Young Mom Nancy Jaxx in The Hot Zone had the same thoughts — “why am I doing this? Why am I endangering my family like this?” And she is a highly trained microbiologist.
If a handful of hosp workers get infected, the word will spread throughout the nursing profession almost instantly. Any hosp that is treating ebola patients will not be able to get nursing staff to show up in enough numbers to provide any level of care.
When that happens, the hospitals will cease to function.
I live across the street from a nurse. If she stops going to work or never comes home from work again I’ll know the SHTF