Do No Harm

Welcome to the golden rule of doctoring applied with blind ignorance and arrogance. By now I guess you would have heard of the brilliant move to transfer two Ebola- infected US citizens back here for treatment. Bravo, now we can risk spreading it further, we can risk the lives of others to unrealistically save two doomed people.


Did anyone consider shipping the 'treatments' to the infected area? Let's say we treat these two unfortunates and prolong their lives 5 days of pain and suffering, is that 'do no harm'? Did anyone consider that viruses adapt and mutate? Perhaps and quite likely, as the virus is exposed to different challenges it will respond by mutating perhaps it will prolong its undetected stage thereby increasing the chances of transmission. Perhaps, it will become less virulent but more resilient such that it becomes a major disease so widespread that many suffer for long periods of time. What if it jumps to a new type host here with new fauna or insects? This new vector could further disseminate the disease. Isn't anybody afraid of transmission, dispersion, and escalation? Maybe it will become airborne. Doesn't anybody watch Planet of the Apes?!? There is a reason Hollywood exists, you know.

Sorry but if it was up to me, those with such deadly disease need to be quarantined and if they try to leave, they and the ravages they inadvertently plan on spreading, must be lethally stopped.