SANITY: No Mandatory Ebola Quarantine In Massachusetts

[morningfog]

Massachusetts has no plans to follow New York and New Jersey in requiring a 3-week quarantine for health care workers and others who have had contact with Ebola-stricken patients.

“It’s probably a step further than we need here in the Commonwealth,” Governor Deval Patrick said in comments provided by his press office, “but we’re prepared. It’s certainly a step further than what the CDC has recommended.”

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“It is obviously dangerous,” Patrick said, but “you have to be directly exposed to the bodily fluids of someone who is showing symptoms of Ebola, not someone who has been near somebody with Ebola. If people are showing any of those symptoms — nausea, high fever — they should get themselves to an emergency room quickly, and there are protocols for testing.”

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/10/no-mandatory-ebola-quarantine-in-massachusetts

[morningfog]

1. Kick.

[uppityperson]

2. k&r, you might get more looks if you put "omg, can you believe this" in thread title.

[seabeyond]

3. good. we need ot hear more and more govenors call this out, isolating the two assholes

who made poor choices simply preying on hysteria for their own gains.