So, basically, the state health authorities in Dallas are condemning 4 people to death by quarantining them in an Ebola infested apartment. We are in the best of hands.
The CDC should have sent a hazmat team to clean up, inside the apartment and out, in the interest of everybody's protection, not just the family.
Now, about the four people quarantined: this is why this sort doesn't survive, as those in New Orleans after Katrina sat around waiting for ....... somebody else to rescue them.
Look
here:
This West African 22 year-old nursing student cared for and nursed her mother, father, sister and cousin. She cleaned, fed and medicated all four, losing only one to the virus, and remaining virus-free herself.
Every day, several times a day for about two weeks, Fatu put trash bags over her socks and tied them in a knot over her calves. Then she put on a pair of rubber boots and then another set of trash bags over the boots.
She wrapped her hair in a pair of stockings and over that a trash bag. Next she donned a raincoat and four pairs of gloves on each hand, followed by a mask.
It was an arduous and time-consuming process, but Fatu was religious about it, never cutting corners.
... She gave them medicines she obtained from the local clinic and fluids through intravenous lines that she started.
The West Africans are instructing others how it's done. Some may learn and adapt. For most, a regular hand-washing regime is treated cavalierly.
So now, we know, too. At the very least, the CDC could have instructed the family how to take care of the apartment themselves, because people like them are not prone to figuring it out and prevailing.
Well they certainly seem to be taking great precautions with the runoff water don't they?
CHAPTER 7 - ANNEXES
www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/Annex_18_risk_reduction_home_care.pdf1:5 bleach/water may deal with it; perhaps stronger if the residue can't be contained.
