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Actually, I could support a policy that said:

  When we have an experimental treatment for
  which there are not enough doses for all
  victims, medical personnel go to the front
  of the line.
I could also support a policy that said:

  When we have an experimental treatment which
  has not been proven safe in humans, it may
  only be given to those who have given
  informed consent.
But what if someone told you that our actual policy is this:

  When we have an experimental treatment it
  is made available only to Americans and
  Europeans, never Africans.
I could never support a policy like that. I would consider it deeply unethical. And if that is the policy being implemented, then there is something deeply wrong.

You are criticizing floody-berry's post, saying things like "there is no please [sic] your type". But in fact, floody-berry is providing actual evidence (albeit circumstantial) that the actual practice implements that third possibility. And if that is true, then I want to know about it -- because I want to change the behavior of my country.



From the perspective of society as a whole, the most important thing is whether or not this drug works. There are limited doses, it has potential to save many lives, but we need good data on it. That means we can't just take the handful of doses and use them willy-nilly, the patients need to be brought to a lab for observation (and to see what happens if given the best medical care available).

Given that the research for the drugs is happening in the US and the US's CDC is really responsible for all of it, that means the patients need to come to the US.

Given that there is not a snowballs chance in hell of a bringing a non-US citizen to the US when they are known to have Ebola (many didn't even want to let a US citizen back in), it has to be a US citizen.

The 3rd outcome is a result of multiple factors, not some insane racist conspiracy.




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