Man Showing "Ebola Like Symptoms" Has Been Isolated in Frisco

Most likely this guy had some bad food...but the CDC might want to put on the flyer "if you have had contact with family, apartment, car etc etc of patient zero DO NOT GO TO CARE NOW if you have symptoms...call us or 911"

Prebolatyrian Hospital

And this Deppity is so ignorant, geeez. I want to see all the tickets he wrote get kicked on the grounds of his stupidity, and law suits for exposure initiated.

Just unbelievable. Or, totally believable, but still monumentally disappointing.

For Deppity Dawg, this could be a DarWIN.

Can't be.  The CDC says it's almost impossible to contract.  Never mind all the people in head to toe protective gear that still get sick.

So this guy is so monumentally stupid that he thinks he may have Ebola, and yet he goes into a crowded urgent care waiting room?

A person that stupid should be institutionalized as a threat to himself and others.  But no--in modern America, we give him a badge and a gun.

Ok, so I was out on the patio earlier this afternoon, enjoying some time off, when I heard a helicopter overhead. Before long I could tell it was hovering maybe a quarter-mile away. Couldn't see anything from the angle I was at, but didn't think much of it.

Went back outside about an hour later - helicopter was still there. Ok, started to think something of it.

Came inside, checked the internet - and see that someone potentially with Ebola was less than 3 blocks from my apartment. Yeeeah. Ok, apparently it CAN happen here.

I hope it's nothing more than an "abundance of caution", but still... will be following this a bit more closely.

For the Observer staff - if any of you are looking for a possible news story, I'd do some digging to see where the 4-bedroom home in a gated community, donated by a member of the deceased's "faith community", is located. If it's Frisco, you've got a story.

Yup... fun times. Fuuuuuuun times.

@Myrna.Minkoff-Katz

wow. 

@Myrna.Minkoff-Katz funny it was a fatty deputy too LMAO

@TheCredibleHulk

It's a handsome trophy for the winner of the "Look on the Bright Side" Award of the Year.

@whocareswhatithink Funny, I was just at Care Now last week and made an Ebola joke with the Dr. He said, "I would hope that someone who thinks they have Ebola wouldn't come to a clinic." I promptly let him know he has grossly overestimated the public's intelligence.

@whocareswhatithink 

CDC also might want to put on the flyer "if you are serving quarantine papers and the destination party refuses to acknowledge them by e-service then go to the door with a single person only in full hazmat so we can minimize the uncertainty, fear and danger associated with a potential further cluster expansion."

@ozonelarryb  A swing and a miss.

@ozonelarryb  What's a deppity? Too ignorant to know what that means. 

@ozonelarryb he went in & right to the apt's refrigerator too ;)

@ScottsMerkin  WBAP is reporting that the suspected patient is a Sargent in the Dallas County Sheriff's deputy who went into Duncan's apartment last week to get some paperwork signed. This wouldn't have happened if Duncan had been denied a travel visa. The question now is Will Clay Jenkins go symptomatic tonight?

@everlastingphelps 

Is it just me, or does Clay Jenkins' face look like a Mini-me version of Big Tex?

Easy to carp. Difficult to contribute.

How bout if I put dawg after it.

Or read the story. The context will make it clear. Maybe.

Dumb shit, why did he think Duncan was gonna buy a raffle ticket?

@bvckvs Dude, why do you insist on taking everything to 11? I was saying that an aspiring investigative journalist might want to look into where they're at because if they or anyone who they've been in contact with are, or could be, contagious, the public might need to know. Or are you cool with everything the government says at all times, and have no curiosity about why they've gone into hiding?

Wait, of course - they're in mortal danger, clearly, because SO many threats have been made, I'm certain.

And "refugees" from what - East Dallas? Or do you KNOW that they've been granted asylum in the U.S. due to religious or political persecution in their home country? If you have more details, please, feel free to share. If not, STFU and take some Xanax or something.

I'm fairly certain the deputy doesn't have Ebola, but maybe some other illness HOWEVER due to the fact that he had been there, he was worried he might have contracted the disease. Fair enough. He should have gone to a hospital, not a CareNow, but maybe he wasn't thinking clearly. But being so far away from where the deceased had been living, the question about where the family is (and people in contact with/caring for them) IS PERFECT VALID, and not a prelude to a firebombing campaign.

Douche.

@bvckvs Ok, I can totally respect that point of view, and agree with much of what you said. So why didn't you say that first instead of whipping out the Ad Hominem Machine and "asking" if I wanted to firebomb the house?

@bvckvs I see. When and why did all this horror descend upon you? I've been online since 300 baud modems and have never encountered anything like that.

Not that I'm doubting you, just that it seems like a lot of bad will descending on one person.

As to wanting to know about the family and their whereabouts, I would have suggested this (had anyone asked) - if the authorities are worried about their potential medical condition, take them to Presby and quarantine them there - rather than at some undisclosed "civilian" location. Secrecy rarely breeds trust, after all - except in your case, apparently.

@bvckvs @Anonamouse I don't doubt internet stalking and such happens - with hundreds of millions of people interacting more-or-less anonymously, there are bound to be many people with anger issues who take things the wrong way and do really stupid things as a result. I'm sorry you've had, apparently, many problems that unfortunately made the jump into the Real World, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't automatically assume the worst. Given enough time and posting history, you'll be able to figure out who the real Fruit Loops are, might actually have decent conversations with people you otherwise would reflexively dismiss,, and It might help your blood pressure a bit.

So, in summary - nope, don't want to firebomb anyone.