Posted on 10/19/2014 12:14:07 PM PDT by bgill
Troh plans to partially recover financially with a book written about her life, from growing up in Liberia, meeting Duncan in a refugee camp in Ivory Coast, Duncan's years-long quest to come to America to be reunited with his girlfriend and their 19-year-old son, and his death in an isolation ward.
"It will be a love story," she said.
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How did she not get sick... previous ebola survivor maybe, and immune?
The New York Times had an article, IIRC dated October 1, Liberia in which they interviewed the parents of the dead pregnant woman. There was no room in the Ebola ward of the local hospital so they brought her back home where she died the next morning. Her brother, who helped carry her along with Duncan in the aborted trip to the hospital, died of Ebola in the ambulance several days after that.
Well, we know that Dallas health officials went in to the apartment, unprotected. We also saw the pic of the YOLO t-shirt kid coming outside of the apartment to get dropped off food. Hmmm.
It’s just amazing, to me, that poor old Louise could stay in that infected apartment (with sweat stained sheets and towels) and NOT become infected, herself.
And let’s not forget the people who used a hose to wash away the vomit that was in front of the apartment..I dont remember but was that person even wearing protective gear? And nearby there was a woman walking with sandals.
That’s sad(About the woman’s brother) Duncan did the right thing trying to help this poor woman, but did the wrong thing by coming here. He put everyone around him at risk, but I dont think his family was in that apartment, he probably gave them advance warning that he was coming, infected with Ebola, and to leave
The only way is to have a natural or acquired immunity-the same way we get used to the germs of our spouse and kids after awhile, or they have some immunity from living in a filthy place around people so ignorant that they eat bush meat that is known to carry disease before they came here-seriously, how well informed is someone who carries around a person who is coming home to die, like Duncan did in Liberia? People that foolish should not have visas to go anywhere...
If everybody over there was that ignorant, the first outbreak of this disease would have wiped out their whole population-survival of the fittest and smartest...
Oh, good gravy. We’ll be stuck with these people for the rest of our lives, won’t we?
I agree. His family and parents at his daughter’s school are already not happy with his actions. So if one of Duncan’s “family” members gets it, Clay Jenkins is in deep. Plus, he has an election coming up. I think he will do his best to keep any illnesses (if any) quiet.
Unless their visas are expired, we likely will-that is why I hope they get sued, at the very least...
With an election coming up, I’d say he has really stepped in it...
There ought to be some way to keep them from being a nuisance for the next 30 years. I’m sorry the guy is dead, in a casual way, but his sex partner’s 15 minutes of fame should be up already.
Look, I'm not defending the Duncan family's reprehensible ingratitude for the care he received.
I do, however, feel compassion for a family, regardless of how they arrived here in the US, for the ordeal Duncan put them through. No one deserves to be used like that.
Should these folks manage to survive this ordeal without having to further deal with the threat of Ebola, I wish them success in reestablishing a sense of normalcy to their lives.
However, if they continue with their retribution against the hospital and American society as a whole with obviously coached cries of 'racism', THEY WILL FAIL, and in the end, their efforts will backfire. The hospital, it's staff, the nation as a whole didn't deserve what Duncan brought us either.
The ordeal Duncan has bequeathed to this nation has yet to completely unfold. That remains unforgivable.
Being a Christian, I’m sorry, too-but that is as far as it goes-he lied to get here, endangered everyone both on the way, and while he was here and among the living, without a thought or a care. That family and girlfriend should not profit from his bad behavior any more than the family of an imprisoned or dead criminal.
I think it might be wise if they decamped with haste to another country-if a lawsuit does not encourage that, public shunning-like the Amish do-might do the trick.
Good suggestions.
THPH’s ER and ICU are still closed and they only have a third of their normal patients.
partially recover financially? 21days rent free and all needs provided and she has to financially recover?
How about she allow a few blood draws from herself and her ilk, to find out why they didn’t catch ebola. Shouldn’t that be her first priority?
It may be that it is only contagious in the latter stages - which may explain the nurses getting it and the family not. If everyone was susceptible to it in the early stages, it seems that many more people would have become infected.
I don't know what to believe (but I am stocking up on alcohol based hand sanitizer or staying home for the duration LOL).
Thank you-in areas like this, peer pressure is a real thing-it happens once in awhile, and the people nearly always move away.
But a lawsuit over some obvious wrongdoing like this is a quick way to encourage a fresh start, too...
If another resident of their apartment complex comes down with Ebola, that will expedite the public shunning.
Especially if it causes a mass exodus from the place-unless that place is the projects, that would be a hefty financial loss for the owner. I truly hope no one else gets sick, though-I doubt those people had any idea of what was going on right there in close proximity.
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