State of Maine, nurse who went to Africa at odds over Ebola quarantine (Ebola Nurse Says No)

CNN ^ | 10/29/2014 | CNN

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Ellendra]

I have a sis-in-law who goes completely insane if she has to be alone for more than an hour. In a lot of ways, this nurse reminds me of her.

I’m such an introvert that I’d be more likely to see it as “21 days when nobody can bother me except online! HA!!!!!!”

[Ethrane]

Why not?

Ummm...because a lot of us work for ourselves, and if we can't take care of other patients and are placed in quarantine would lose income while we are 'left alone, on vacation'?

I know a a lot of people think that we are privileged to take care of y'all, but if no one is going to guarantee my livelihood to take care of my family, don't be surprised if I defer from providing care for you.

I'll provide care, follow protocol, and risk my life to provide you care..but if your stipulation is that after doing that I lose my livelihood for 3 weeks, well maybe I'll reconsider...and there are a lot of health care providers that feel similarly.

just sayin'

[Girlene]

So then maybe it’s important to close our borders to those from countries where Ebola is running rampant. THen we won’t have to worry about quarantining doctors or any medical workers who have treated Ebola patients stateside.

[Ethrane]

Ummm...I’ve been trumpeting that from the rooftops since this whole thing began. That is PART of the reason that quarantining returning medical personnel from the US is troubling....as the gov’t is doing NOTHING to stem the tide of potentially infected people coming here..people that if they have been exposed have every reason to lie to get in here and access care.

You want to quarantine everyone coming back, including health care workers who volunteered to help? I can live with that as a US health care worker IF the government quarantined EVERYONE coming here from endemic areas, not just returning health care workers who unless they had a death wish at least followed precautions to avoid infection to begin with.

Simple fact of the matter is that not every health care provider here in the US is an ‘employee’ of some entity that will pay them to sit at home for 21 days after taking care of an Ebola patient..just want everyone to consider that.