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The Altruistic Side of Fighting Ebola


I highly recommend watching this movie. I highly respect spiritual people fighting the darkest of human contagions and surviving. What isn't mentioned to be sure is that Ebola may not be curable, as evidenced by the English nurse who contacted it in Africa and survived, only to re-infected by it much later after returning to England. Doctors Without Borders had been suggesting this but have gone quite cold on the subject, perhaps because there are currently several pharma corps working on anti-Ebola vaccines. I am not sure if these relief orgs have any connections to the pharma trade, whatsoever. African physicians have been suggesting Ebola is not curable for some time, after seeing survivors present with Ebola again. My complaint with this movie is it glossed over the incident in the Dallas hospital where two registered nurses contacted Ebola. That hospital's administration and chief nurse were culpable for allowing those nurses to treat their Ebola patient with only PPE. In other words, the Dallas hospital expected their employees to treat a patient who was profusely bleeding and vomiting blood to only wear the most basic protection. That protection wasn't near the amount of protection the viewers of this movie saw the relief workers wearing in Liberia during the epidemic. Please understand: for a scientist to hold a drop of Ebola blood on a glass slide, performing work at the CDC you must wear scientific Hazmat suits. While watching this film I couldn't help but think how that Dallas hospital could have created a new epidemic of Ebola here in the states. Did you know that the second Dallas nurse that contacted Ebola flew commercially? The Dallas nurses who were hands on the patient were only told to return to the emergency department if they found they had fever! As I watched every ceo of the alphabet health orgs in this movie patting their backs, I could only think how missing they were regarding their professional responsibilities to those healthcare workers at (what they must think) the lowest rung who would actually be taking care of, hands on and cleaning, the patient in that Dallas hospital with woefully deficient PPE. There is fear and then there is stupidity. Was God present during the fiasco in Dallas? I truly believe he was. I truly believe.

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