tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post2239323440389115484..comments2024-02-22T04:07:33.179-05:00Comments on Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway: XDR-TB: Time to ListenKeith "Nurse Keith" Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581947410641941224noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-47596017996285188932007-05-30T22:21:00.000-04:002007-05-30T22:21:00.000-04:00Thanks for your comment, Bob. As a nurse who works...Thanks for your comment, Bob. As a nurse who works with people with infectious disease (and a so-called "liberal", if you feel the need to label me as such) I am very concerned about pandemics and the potential for worldwide death and illness, and I take the subject quite seriously. <BR/><BR/>However, our government can often be very reactionary, "shooting from the hip" in situations requiring more subtle evaluation. The concern I raise in this post has to do with the fact that the United States has used the War on Terror in ways which preclude any notion of civil liberties. <BR/><BR/>From reading your blog, I must differ from your opinion that everyone imprisoned at Guantanamo is "bent on the destruction of America". Yes, some of those folks are terrorists, and some are people who simply got caught up in a very wide and indiscriminate net.<BR/><BR/>In my post I describe a "nightmare scenario" in which the government overreacts and imprisons people without proper screening and identification of actual contagion. As we saw in New Orleans, communities of color and the poor could very well be warehoused indiscriminately and mistreated or forgotten in the process. As a member of the National Medical Reserve Corps, I count myself as one person who will work to assure that that process is transparent and clinically accurate, if the need for such measures should ever arise.Keith "Nurse Keith" Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03581947410641941224noreply@blogger.com