# Ebola: Maine Teacher Is Put On Leave Because She Visited Dallas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746 "2014-10-19T00:03:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746/81 "2014-10-21T03:48:43Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > And wouldn’t that have provided a perfect opportunity for the school and the district to educate people…which is the entire point of their existence? The public believes that their role is to educate kids. Adults know everything they need to know already, thank you. The problem is that the district is accountable to the voters in the district. That is, they might be “educated” by being voted out of office by panicking voters. Sad but true. In my experience school board members almost always listen to the loudest parents to the exclusion of everyone else, especially the teachers. They know that’s who determines whether they keep their job. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746/82 "2014-10-21T04:10:37Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m old enough I can remember when we went into this kind of panic over AIDS back in the early eighties. Funny, I don’t. Until Rock Hudson died, most people didn’t even see the point in using condoms. It was “something that happened to _those people_”. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746/83 "2014-10-21T04:55:27Z")
Alabama teacher on leave after traveling aboard same plane, but on a different day, as Ebola patient. > **[Alabama teacher on leave after traveling aboard same plane, but on a...](https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2014/10/alabama_teacher_on_leave_after.html)** > > The school board placed the Central High School teacher on 21 days of paid leave despite the Centers for Disease Control and the Alabama Department of Public Health insisting there is no risk of the teacher being exposed to Ebola. > [@](#): > > The school board placed the Central High School teacher on 21 days of paid leave despite the Centers for Disease Control and the Alabama Department of Public Health insisting there is no risk of the teacher being exposed to Ebola. ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746/84 "2014-10-21T05:49:34Z")
This is over overreaction.It seems the government and media is very much so overreaction to this thing. === \*\* School closures On October 16, two schools in the Solon City School District near Cleveland were closed after they learned that one of their teachers may have been on the same aircraft (but not the same flight) as Amber Vinson. The schools were closed so that disinfection procedures could be carried out.[99] One school in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District was disinfected overnight due to similar concerns but remained open, school officials said that they had been assured by city health officials that there was no risk, and that that the disinfection was “strictly precautionary”. Three schools in the Belton Independent School District in Belton, Texas were also closed. Infectious disease experts considered these closures to be an overreaction, and were concerned that it would frighten the public into believing that Ebola is a larger danger than it actually is. On October 16, a principal at Hazlehurst Middle School in Hazlehurst, Mississippi agreed to take a paid vacation after he’d travelled to Zambia. On October 17, a teacher at Strong Elementary School in Strong, Maine was placed on a 21-day paid leave after she travelled to Dallas for an educational conference. International travel ban for monitored residents of Ohio On October 18, Ohio Health officials strengthened monitoring protocols to require that state residents who are self-monitoring not leave the US. \*\* > **[Ebola virus cases in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_outbreak_in_the_United_States)** > > Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. Eleven cases were reported, including these four cases and seven cases medically evacuated from other countries. The first was reported in September 2014. Nine of the people contracted the disease outside the US and traveled into the country, either as regular airline passengers or as medical evacuees; of those nine, two died. Two people contracted Ebola in the United On Sep... **Call for suspension of visas** \*\* Congressional leaders, including U.S. Representative Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, Chair of the Homeland Security Committee, have called on Secretary of State John Kerry to suspend issuing visas to travelers from the affected West African countries, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746/85 "2014-10-21T06:01:46Z")
This is a PARODY thread, America! We’re like, you know, making fun of you. CUT IT OUT! We’ve got enough material. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746/86 "2014-10-21T18:38:33Z")
I flew over Dallas a few years ago on my way to San Antonio. Will that at least get me the afternoon off? In all serious, one of my Facebook friends is posting all this nonsense about Ebola. I get that he lives not far from the hospital (close enough that he and one of the nurses work out at the same gym), but the panicking got old real quick. The thing is, he’s not stupid. I finally started hiding his more egregious posts because all that eyerolling gave me a headache. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebola-maine-teacher-is-put-on-leave-because-she-visited-dallas/701746.md?page=4)