Glasgow bin wagon crash.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

I cannot understand why NHS staff are going to West Africa when we are told that the NHS is in such a dire situation partly because of a shortage of nurses and doctors? Quite agree that all travellers should be in quarantine for the duration of the incubation period.

Pauline Cafferkey was in Sierra Leone as a volunteer on 5 week placement for Save the Children Barrie.

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Pauline Cafferkey was in Sierra Leone as a volunteer on 5 week placement for Save the Children Barrie.

And her UK job is??????

[Dave Walsh]

Further to Westendlass [post38*] but from a different perspective, a female journalist did a radio 4 program in 1992 which won a Sony award the year after. She was arrested because she had been in an Ebola area and was a seen as a major threat to the community where she had now gone. I have always remembered the fear in her voice-live recording-for a while she thought she might be ill and would die or be killed anyway! You may be forgiven for thinking that this archive material would have appeared by now!

Re the unfortunate lady flown from Glasgow to London in the manner of a Sci-Fi film. Well the Aid agencies seemed very concerned that this might discourage further volounteers. They have been alarmed by the 2014 outbreak not being rural, as in the past, but now in more populated areas. The UK population is 70 million people largely in close proximity on a small island. We are told it's impossible to screen that well and that transmission is only by bodily fluids anyway. Does that mean sharing a toilet or sitting next to a sweating person on a plane, train or bus is ok?

I'm not interested in blaming individuals and it's easy to criticise if you are not not the one volunteering to help others but I would want to put myself in a voluntary 21 day quarantine rather than risk my family or community's well being and then have to live [or not live] with the consequences for the rest of my life.

The other puzzle is-why would a dedicated health professional who is probaly much more knowledgeable and experienced than those examining her and who feels very unwell meekly take the advice to travel on public transport? They were told isolate yourself WHEN YOU GET THERE?
Is it a consequence of the facist tendency discussed earlier in this thread to do as you are told [even when you know it's wrong] which is a feature of that political system?
Dave W

The other question

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

And her UK job is??????

Rhetorical question eh Barrie?
I'll apply my New Years Resolution right now.