He didn't know anything - he helped a pregnant 17 yr old girl at a party and the next day he flew home - it wasn't until 6 days later that she was diagnosed with Ebola.

I don't know where you're getting your information from but Duncan was a tenant and friend to the Williams family. After she had been refused treatment at the medical centre he helped carry Marthalene Williams from the taxi back to her house. Marthalene Williams was 19 when she died (and when she contracted ebola).

To be honest... the more I read the less convinced I am that he had any strong suspicion that he might have ebola when he flew to the states. He had been planning to visit his son who lived in the USA for a long time, he quit his job long before Marthalene's collapse... These are all signs that he was planning on leaving the country anyway. He had even already applied for a visa...

Marthalene Williams was among the first in her neighbourhood to contract the virus and with her being 7 months pregnant and the widespread disbelief of the existence of ebola in Liberia I can easily see how Duncan may have thought she was having complications with her pregnancy. Ebola may not have even crossed his mind.

Hard to know for sure but the evidence seems to point toward a right-wing spinjob.

This post was edited by Scaly on Oct 16 2014 05:28pm

There is something incredibly funny about Republicans resorting to their tried-and-true electoral strategy of scaring the hell out of paranoid white people to try to get them riled up in advance of an election. This is supposed to be a "solidly Republican year" (pause for laughter), it's interesting that they're having to play so many games.

Though this isn't leading. Having your resident idiots like Elizabeth Filarski/Hasselbeck and Bill O'Reilly embarrass themselves by trying to discuss the issue with, or rebuke, actual scientific experts may be great programming for the Fox News fantasy land but it only serves to make people who are out of touch... appear more out of touch.

The reactionary party gonna reactionate.

Agreed. The reds are only hurting themselves with this.

id prefer testing people over saying they cant come here at all. get tested, if you come back negative then move along.

Read leadership would be putting more resources into stopping Ebola at the source. We don't have much to worry about with it coming here. A man comes here, throws up in the parking lot, is dismissed from the ER before returning, and only one other infection? And it's one of the people who were in the room with him in the hospital in direct contact? I know its sad that this happened to the nurse, but if the fear mongering were correct we would have a dozen more. Unless we put a real effort into stopping it at the source like we chased smallpox to the last village in south africa the problem isn't going to stop.

So, again, this isn't leadership, it's politics and fear mongering.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Oct 16 2014 10:05pm

Cuz ebola is like super scary yall, it spreads so easily anybody could get it! Super dangerous and kills so many more people than the flu!

Democrat policy: doing the least in the most demanding times.

Virologists and doctors are saying America doesn't have to worry about Ebola.


Republicans are listening to sensationalist news shows and blaming Obama.


Sounds about right.