Posted on 10/26/2014 7:36:01 AM PDT by maggief
One of the top doctors leading the government’s response to the Ebola crisis on Sunday slammed policies quarantining healthcare workers who return from treating patients in West Africa.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that overly aggressive quarantines could make healthcare workers "very, very uncomfortable” and discourage them from volunteering.
"The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa, and we need those healthcare workers,” Fauci said on "Fox News Sunday.” "So we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go."
Fauci said this is a concern for many of the healthcare workers he’s spoken with.
His comments come as states like New York and New Jersey have said they will quarantine all healthcare workers returning from West Africa who had contact with people who were infected with Ebola.
Fauci is afraid policies like this will “disincentivize” them from volunteering.
"If we don’t have our people volunteering to go over there, then you’re going to have other countries around the world that are not going to do it, and then the epidemic will continue to roar,” he said.
Didn’t I read on another thread that Doctors Without borders give their returning workers a month off with pay? So they won’t be out any pay while they are in quarantine.
I’m beginning to think they want to spread this disease in the US. Their version of sharing the wealth.
Health care workers are THE ones at risk.
They get to have a voice in this republic, over what happens. NIH is a government entity, and, BTW a notoriously corrupt government entity.
We don’t like communism.
Here is one of the examples of why.
When the NIH officials man the urban ERs closest to the airports where this is coming in, they can be quiet
Health care workers don’t have a voice by nature of their professionalism, much like the military, they cannot say they won’t take care of these people.
But the health care workers are left to have to trust the government on this.
Problem is, the government, being this corrupt, as well as just unreasonable, regarding this situation, is not trustworthy.
Now you have nurses at Bellevue not going in to work.
If they have babies, children, families at home, to protect, who, in government, at the NIH, shows any consideration for that?
He is a liar, how can anyone believe anything he says?
Yes but then they can’t go bowling, ride the subways, and integrate back into society like the DR in NYC, who has Ebola (sarc)...Now a lot of people are quarantined to see if he infected them.
My thought was she had quarantine in USA, with good food, warmth, and even though northern NJ is a bit rude in their speech, it’s just their way....I lived across the state line in PA and all of them are abrupt....I think she overreacted considering the possibilities created by the Dr before her. She could have been quarantined in Africa before leaving.
Sounds like BULLSCOOT to me. If I was inclined to go to Africa to help...IF I was the sort of person inclined to risk my life to help humanity I didn’t even know, had no dog in the fight, I’d also be inclined to be concerned about my fellow Americans, and would without hesitation enter a quarantine situation upon my return to this country to ensure I didn’t infect a single person in this the country of my birth, the people, and the country I care most about.
People that volunteer to help humanity in this way do so from their hearts, their souls, for their GOD. This NIH Director is doing what he does for the money, and is projecting his perspective upon the volunteers.
This NIH director seems to me another lying sycophant typical of the Obama Administration of pro liars.
There are always exceptions to the rule. The apparently arrogant Dr. Spencer for example.
I would think that most volunteers who would want to risk their life to help stop Ebola would also accept being quarantined to help stop Ebola.
As usual, American citizens are at the bottom of the hill that sh*t rolls down. When it comes to illegals, to ebola, to “keeping our doctors”, to terrorists, to increasingly subsidising parasites-you name it. Obola hates American citizens, especially white Christian ones.
I’m not sure how the state can do the quarantine without the cooperation of ICE and that’s where Øbola can refuse to cooperate. Unless the Port Authority is running the customs process.
Funny how they all seem to care about Africa, but don’t care for the USA.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
If someone doesn’t have a sense of need for selflessness well trained and/or ingrained in him/her, one doesn’t look like a good prospect for serving as an HCW or a doctor for that matter. Of course, this poor sense of altruism can be fixed, but not having it at the moment isn’t really good. Second, I don’t get why that nurse couldn’t change her mind over 21 days in quarantine, I personally have had smaller holdups, and have personally at least been able to rethink some of the frustration I may be feeling for my personal schedule being inconvenienced.
so obviously true. Nobody at NIH thought about this?....
Doctors need to realize that everyone, him/her self included, is not immune and/or capable of being cured of every disease out there. Fact of life. Second, one needs to remember that there doesn’t have to be some distaste to being helped by who you think are “lesser people”.
I thought *all* ebola health workers coming into NY and NJ were to be put in quarantine. Imagine checking into a room at the Hilton and finding out an ebola health care worker spent the night before there.
The HCW’s could take the southern (border) route...
The NIH's argument is that a quarantine would make the healthcare workers uncomfortable.
I saw that idiot Fauci on TV this morning.
He says we have to fight Ebola in Africa in order to keep it from spreading here, and then he thinks it’s A-OK for these doctors and nurses who have worked with Ebola patients to come back here to American cities without being quarantined!
Fauci is a PC fool and should resign.
So let me get this straight. Healthcare workers won’t volunteer to work in hot zones presumably because they might have to be quarantined when coming back. They would be more willing to go to hot zones if they could re-enter this US w/o being hassled with quarantines.
As far as refugees are concerned, it won’t matter if they are admitted to the US via airports or an open border.
This guy is so deep into the ideological open borders BS that he has given up any pretense of a scientist and has stopped thinking coherently. I have to assume that he is a eugenicist global fascist freak.
The Obamanoids want to kill us.
It’s going to take more than an election to save us. America, the new Babylon, is under God’s judgement.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-protocols-staff-returning-ebola-affected-countries
...MSF continues to provide salaries to returned staff for the 21-day period.
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