Mortality rates and infection rates shouldn't be compared.

Exactly. It's infuriating. I've had to repeat myself over and over to convince my friends that we're fine and they repeatedly come back with arguments. I've posted this before but my husband is an MD and an epidemiologist n TX and he was interviewed on the local news about how low the risk is, etc., and I had the…

I'm so glad for you and absolutely agree. I trust pharmacists quite a bit and would be more than happy to get basic "care" at a Walgreens. My son is getting a flu shot today and we will likely go to Walgreen's or Target.

I'm pretty sure you and I are on the same side of this overall issue but doctors and nurses do not allocate resources differently to different patients. Unless there is law-breaking and major malpractice going on, all patients should be treated equally, whether covered or not. If it turns out that they sent him home…

It really is awful and I fear that Mr. Duncan has been so wrongly vilified. The pictures of him in his bright green shirt should remind us all that he is a human being, who was probably so excited to get here and marry his girlfriend and had hopes and dreams and treated a neighbor with fatal kindness. And we could do…

That's what Liberia says; we don't know for sure that he lied at the airport and he and his family apparently mentioned Ebola at the ER.

I'd like to know why he wasn't sent to a hospital better equipped to care for him but the two nurses were. Perhaps he was too sick by then, I don't know. I feel so sad for his family.

You're right about most of that; people absolutely use the ER for all their care, which is why you are likely now seeing walk-up urgent care clinics proliferating everywhere. (Can't remember why but ACA makes it easier or better for them and obviously reduces ER pressure.) It is criminal that people can't get…

So you think that they suspected he had Ebola and sent him away due to lack of insurance? Have you ever once seen an ER doc or nurse just wandering around, looking for someone's insurance or ability to pay status? No, because they don't have time and it's not their job. It is against the law to refuse treatment to an…

You're right; there is NO proof that he was sent away due to lack of insurance (which is against the law, by the way) and it is obnoxious that people keep spreading that myth. ER docs and nurses have ZERO time between patients to check on someone's insurance status and hospitals must treat patients no matter what.…

I guess my attitude about it is this: Bristol Palin had every advantage and connection handed to her after her family hit the national stage and instead, she ends up, six years later, heavily intoxicated at an Alaskan party. She could have gone to college, she could have worked for a non-profit or done something…

That part felt sad to me, too.

My brother-in-law showed me pictures of Tehran, his home, and I was similarly startled: it's surrounded by mountains and is quite lovely. We always only see desert and bombed-out buildings but that region is stunning.

OT: Is there an autobiography, biography or any non-fiction book that doesn't have a colon in the title? It's become such a cliche'.

But you kicked it off!!

Couldn't resist: Paul singing 'Hey Jude' Monday night in Dallas.

Oh, you won't get an argument from me; she should have shown an abundance of caution and didn't. I hope she survives because this is a horrible disease but she should be deeply reprimanded and ashamed for this choice.

You know, it was weirdly mellow. He was feverish and droopy and punky but he still was able to kind of function fairly normally. He missed school, of course, but didn't lay in bed moaning, which is what I always associate with a flu. He just took it like the chill 2nd grader he was (that year, he played the Wizard in…

I think Gwyneth is also fairly intelligent. People might not like her and she may be sophisticate-twee but she isn't stupid.

Yeah, it seems that Jessica Alba said to herself, "I have babies now and as a mom, I would like my babies and other babies and parents to have this type of product. It speaks to me personally and is easy on the environment and I feel good selling it."