SARS-infected health worker ‘belligerent’

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SARS-infected health worker ‘belligerent’

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Globe and Mail wrote:Ontario health officials are worried a SARS-infected health care professional who should have known better attended funeral and church services last week and may have infected “hundreds.”
http://globeandmail.com/servlet/story/R ... y/National

The heck? Why can't people just stay home? Are they afraid their boss will fire them or something? Don't people have any sense of civic duty?

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Quarantine violations are extremely widespread, and they should have been enforced by the police from day one.

The fact is that when confronted with a situation in which people are told to inconvenience themselves, they will almost invariably fight it, no matter the cost to society. One of the "benefits" of a society that prizes individualism so much, I suppose ...
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Authorities on Hong Kong had to restore to detaining people outside of the city after they didn't observe home based quarantines. But if doctors are doing it then things could get very bad. How are you supposed to get patients to do things you won't do yourself?
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I'd like to know what kind of healthcare worker this belligerant person is. A lot of physicians can be arrogant but I would hope they wouldn't be that stupid. As for anyone below a doctor, they could be that stupid.

I would also like to hear the healthcare worker's side of the story just to hear why they thought they shouldn't be quarantined.
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