Monday, October 27, 2014

100.4

Please, if you have been to Africa, don't get the flu. You'll get shut down cold. I can't exactly see the
point, because if you do cough or sneeze and it touches someone who doesn't notice while you were
climbing from 100.2 to 100.4, how would anyone know?
How long would a group of Ebola creatures be viable after landing on your knuckle from the man
standing in line behind you just before you wipe something from your eye?
Trying to quarantine everyone who comes to the U.S. from West Africa sounds expensive and weildy.
Just how many precise thermometers do we have anyway?
Nina Pham didn't go to West Africa.
Amber Vinson hadn't been to West Africa.
Other nurses who cared for Mr. Duncan aren't sick with Ebola.
So in some ways, anyone who gets a fever has to go home and lock themselves away, because no one knows for certain who has a fever about to be 100.4.
Quarantine will probably not work at all unless we are kind to people and encourage self-monitoring
with a kind protocol.

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