Desperate people will try anything that seems to offer hope, even in a case like this in which we in America have no more idea of a cure or how to improve the odds of survival than anybody in Africa.
And who is stupid enough to think he's the only or the last guy to try this?
And what will happen to the general rule that hospitals turn people away to die if they can't get paid, except for emergency room treatment?
In a case like this, hospitalization is for the good of the public, not the patient.
We don't want them turning anyone away.
Meanwhile, this doctor in MO is right.
The progress of the disease has repeatedly shown up reassuring officials as nincompoops, liars, or both.
Missouri doctor dons suit to protest CDC
Another African bringing the disease to us via airplane from Africa?
Patient Being Evaluated for Possible Ebola at D.C.'s Howard University Hospital
Prediction: The left will indirectly insist we allow them to keep coming because they are black by directly insisting efforts to stop them coming here are intolerable acts of racism.
[Update. They're already doing that.]
[Update II. The left seems divided on this issue.]
Punishable by firing if not prosecution for hate speech for anyone - anyone white - who even suggests trying to stop them.
So far, the left has really been out to lunch on this one, though not Obama.
He, at least, has shown signs of entirely sensible alarm.
Anything he does to help stamp this out in Africa is well done.
Anything he may yet do to prevent us stopping it coming here is very ill done.
And I believe he has already said he opposes shutting off travel from affected regions of Africa to here.
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