But they need to keep that cop posted so they don't try to run again.

The judge made the comments that they should be moved while speaking in his capacity of local homeland security chief. His role as a judge is just a sidebar here, no legal authority at this point to force a move.

wouldn't envy them hving to move again.

I only say this because it's not like they're going to be able to work, go to school or any other activities until they are cleared. I don't like this kind of thing, don't get me wrong, it seems to be a violation of their rights. I may be overreacting, but it's less about them to me, than the wingnuts.

The rightwingnuts will stoke up all the hysteria they can, and I don't want to see them mobbed or otherwise attacked. I hope cooler heads will prevail and professionals will be in charge of all patients who suffer from this disease or are just suspected of it.

There will be hatred directed at people who come down with it, I fear, like those with AIDS. If they can be kept safe at home, fine. If they are not infectious, fine.

I don't want to see this blown out of proportion like the rightwingnuts want it to be. Fearful folks don't think clearly.

And because this is seen as an 'African disease,' there is an element of racism from wingnuts.

person lived. Forcing his family to continue living there under quarantine, among the biologic detritus he left behind, endangers their lives unnecessarily and deprives them of the level of medical monitoring necessary for tier 1 contacts.

Home quarantines work best for monitoring lower tier contacts.

This was a nonsense decision from the get-go.

shows the public that if we're in danger we'll be locked in an infected room with an armed guard outside and no provisions. it's not helping.

as each person in the household that became symptomatic was photographed by the media (that probably had set up camp outside their residence for just such a money shot) when, as the days wore on, they were hauled, one by one, out of the house by ambulance personnell in full hazmat suits.

Someone clearly didn't think through the public relations aspect of such a visible quarantine situation.

it's been drowned in the GOP's hot tub.

that he makes this announcement after the lady living with the guy has made the media rounds exposing even more of how poorly officials are handling this. She did a damning interview on AC360.
Look for her and the family to be moved to an undisclosed location without access to computers or phones.

I knew local officials were going "aaawwww, shiiittttttt".

Every aspect of this has shown how incompetent our local response has been.
Yesterday they showed Judge Jenkins entering the apartment with a few other people with NO protection gear on....What. The. Fuck. Dude needs to have HIS ass quarantined for 21 days!!!

What a mess. Now that the CDC has released their guidelines on how to handle Ebola cases, those folks will have no excuse if these kind of WTF moments keep happening.

Have them pack up their valuables and transport them in a quarantine house that can easily be monitored and guarded away from the possibility of cross-contamination into other homes, and run a hazmat crew through the place and ensure it's clean?

Oh, I forgot, these are the marginally American poor, or non-citizens working on their visas folk who all are "very darkly tanned". They would be in a "much better place" than they were used to living in should they be moved en-mass to a vacant house in the 'burbs where most of the inhabitants would be much lighter - and better employed.

We can't have "those type" being treated better than they deserve, even if it would be a more optimal way of handling a potentially deadly epidemic getting out of hand. After all, Rick Perry and his friends are protected from any of the riff-raff who might be infected.

And heaven forfend we staff our public services to be able to adaquately deal with this and other potentially deadly diseases that poor people are prone to and could spread around and outside their immediate neighborhoods.
If you can't pay for a service, no matter how critical it is for your survival or how critical for the wellbeing of the community at large for you to have it, you don't deserve that service. Who cares how many other lazy moochers you take down with you as you go into your death spiral? Heck, go ahead and wipe out half of Texas with Ebola or Typhoid or Tuberculosis or Malaria or West Nile Virus - as long as it doesn't touch the people who really matter - the ones who can pay to have competent doctors and medical facilities take care of them, or can just leave for their hunting cabin in Wyoming or lodge in Colorado if it looks like too many people around them are getting sick.

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Haele

Keeping people quarantined in a contagious apartment is immoral.

faster.