Cuban doctors won't be repatriated if they are infected with ebola

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/21/world/americas/cuba-ebola-diplomacy/

The Cuban health workers will work in West Africa for at least six months. If they themselves become infected, they have agreed not to be repatriated to Cuba for treatment, to avoid spreading the illness further.

[jehop61]

1. It's an interesting

way to get out of Cuba. But easier than getting into a leaky boat and sailing to Florida, I don't know...........?

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Sounds like they are condemned to die unless they go somewhere else (besides Cuba)

for treatment. Lots of people die in rafts too I guess.

[Mika]

3. Nothing could be easier than applying for a US immigration visa, and coming on a daily flight...

... like the VAST majority of Cuban immigrants do - the US offers over 20,000 legal visas to Cubans every year (not all are applied for). UNLESS they don't qualify for a legal US immigration visa, THEN a smuggling op to Florida is very easy too.
As soon as they touch US soil, they are home free - no matter what their criminal record might be (the primary reason the US refuses an immigration application). The US's Wet Foot/ Dry Foot policy (for Cubans only) bypasses immigration laws.
Florida - where Cuban criminals are welcome too.

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Not for physicians though even if it were as easy as you say n/t

[Mika]

5. If they have completed their contracted term, it is that easy.

Lots of Cuban doctors in Florida who have done just as I say - entered the US from Cuba with an immigration visa.

[Judi Lynn]

6. What could be more bizarre than the US deliberately courting Cuban doctors to betray their contracts

they have with Cuba to serve the agreed upon terms they signed for in return for their FREE medical education, while, at the same time, the US government wouldn't give a free education to a US student for all the tea in China.

How underhanded can a government get, anyway? Intentionally setting out to steal Cuban doctors, while forcing US students to keep paying on their school loans even though we know there are old people now STILL paying on their student loans. Crazy, sick, depraved.

Cuba shouldn't want those people back, anyway. They are larcenous, would make terrible doctors, since the're dirty to the core.

The US students who sign the same agreement with Cuba certainly appear to be very determined to give back to their communities as Cuba has asked them to do after they graduate.

[Mika]

7. American gov't is sick. Needs an injection of humanity. Not likely that it'll happen.

Pretty much all pill pushing Drs in the US are rotten to the core... working for Big Pharma.

[Bacchus4.0]

8. How about the humanity of Cuba though, not allowing their doctors to return if they

are infected. Now there is an example of humanity.

[Mika]

9. The *membership* of the Cuba Ministry Of Health suggested that course of action.

The membership are the Drs and auxiliaries.
So, your false claim that the Cuban gov't won't allow Drs back is pure mendacity.

[Judi Lynn]

10. What can top New Jersey Gov. Christie's imprisonment of the nurse in a tent with NO flushing toilet,

as she was kept completely alone?

Doesn't get much dumber than that.

The right-wing LOVES what he, himself, did regarding this courageous woman. The right-wing think that's the way to go.

The Cuban Ministry of Health made all the right calls. They know what they are doing, having a very long record of success.

We always know where we can go for good old perverted gibberish regarding socialist countries. So sad.

[Mika]

11. A Cuban quarantine of numbers of volunteers involves rum, music, dancing, singing, poetry, etc...

... a welcome reward for a job well done.

Can I be quarantined too?

[Judi Lynn]

12. Maybe you could help them keep their spirits up, Mika! Poor, poor things. Love the news & photo. n/t