Thursday, October 02, 2014

Quarantine them in the one place where they are most likely to get infected?

The Ebola-infected patient in Dallas is Thomas Eric Duncan. His girlfriend is named Louise. She and her 13-year-old child and two adult cousins have now been quarantined to their apartment, where Duncan got sick, vomited and soaked the sheets with sweat. She and her son left the apartment when they were under a mere advisory to stay in the apartment. Ace of Spades writes:
Now, this family may not be infected yet, but we're keeping them in a place where the chances of infection are Very High.

So of course they'd want to get out of there.

Why are we keeping them there, as opposed to moving them to a quarantine facility where they don't have to worry about ebola on the floor or on the sheets?

This apartment seems to me to be the exact environment where you can catch ebola pretty easily -- so why expect them to stay put?

It makes sense to keep low-chance-of-infection people in their own homes -- but not people with a high chance of infection. And not in homes that are themselves likely swimming with ebola virus!
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