On the news tonight there have been several Texas schools that closed due to children that flew on the same plane as Nurse 2, so they can sanitize the schools and they've asked that the students remain home for 21days to be monitored at home. There are several businesses, including a military employer in Killeen, Tx where Ft. Hood is located, that asked a male employee to stay home for 21 days to self monitor, and other businesses are doing the same ...asking those employees that flew on same flights as Nurse 2, to remain at home with their families and children for self monitoring. We even have people that were on those flights with Nurse 2 that have notified employers they are staying home voluntarily, and keeping their kids out of schools to self monitor for 21 days so as not to spread the disease should it rear it's ugly head.
More and more people are coming forward and doing this on their own, they aren't taking public transportation or going to schools or working because they are monitoring themselves voluntarily. I find this very courageous for people to step up to the plate and do this just in case they become ill due to exposure from Nurse 2 and not wanting to infect others. Maybe it's them being panicky maybe not, we'll see if anyone else pops up with symptoms being reported from those flights.
I also feel for the Nurse that became a whistle blower at Texas Presbytarian Hospital, she too is keeping her children at home with her and monitoring herself and her children for fever every half hour. She's scared and afraid for a lot of reasons, she knows both nurses and worked at the hospital during the time frame of the first patient, she is on the list of the 75 healthcare workers that are off work with pay as they self monitor themselves for symptoms of Ebola. She's brave to come forward and risk her job and being black balled from nursing to speak out against the hospital and it's lack of training, chaos during Duncan's stay, and Lack of correct PPE for nurses.
As I said before, and I'll say it again, there's bound to be more people getting sick, I hope and pray not, but there's bound to be due to the way things were handled in the first place. The worst has yet to come and it's not over til it's over for all of them.
My prayers are with the hospital workers exposed, the families that may have been exposed , friends of family members exposed, and all those in Africa and other countries fighting this deadly disease. My heart goes out to all of them.
ETA: so far as of today, there is not anyone that is being monitored or self monitoring that has come forward with symptoms of Ebola, and I hope it continues to remain this way.
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