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In reply to the discussion: To All the A**holes who are Insulting the Flying Ebola Nurse: Shut Your F***ing Faces. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,134 posts)And even if she didn't, she'd been monitoring her temperature a couple of times a day for a couple of weeks. She knows her body's temperature pattern. The fact that she called and asked about flying with a temp of 99.5 tells me she knew this was not normal for her - even if she doesn't have the internal sensory perceptions to reach that conclusion without a thermometer.
Yes, the officials bear the lion's share of the blame - but she is not blameless. She has had medical training - more than I have, and my training (multiple iterations of universal precaution training) tells me I should not be getting in a closed box in close proximity with 100+ people, sitting nearly on top of at least one - possibly 2 others. Passing hospitality items back and forth across the row - likely including some contaminated with my saliva.
She should have taken the common sense extra step of staying put in Texas - and even more so once she started to run a low grade fever.