Ebola: Someone from NBC Crew Went Inside Restaurant?

It's been confirmed by the local health office and the state health office in New Jersey.

It is appalling for anyone who is on self-quarantine, after being exposed to someone diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus, to go inside of a restaurant to pick up a to-go order.  It was reportedly a CROWDED restaurant.

NBC Dr. Nancy Snyderman - She Violated Ebola Quarantine - TMZ

NBC News, Dr. Nancy Snyderman and the crew who was involved in violating the self-quarantine owes apologies to everyone in that restaurant, the owners of the restaurant, the workers, customers, the community and the public.  This is unbelievable on so many levels... and honestly, unethical.

I worked in the news business for many years and I have seen high-level people fired for far less unethical behavior.  For heaven's sake, those people fired in the news business did not jeopardize public health.

Double Standard:  If someone had violated a self-quarantine or a mandatory quarantine in Dallas, Texas who was exposed to the now deceased Ebola patient Thomas Duncan, you know that person or persons would have been arrested.  Maybe would have lost his or her job.  And would have been in serious legal trouble with health officials and the CDC.  In fact, West Africa was promising to prosecute Thomas Duncan for lying about being exposed to an Ebola patient so he could get out of the country.  Was Thomas Duncan given equal care or was he given only "comfort care" so no one else who was potentially infected would attempt to lie their way out of West Africa to garner better care in the United States?

Now, here we have a situation of a high-profile celebrity doctor and her crew violating a quarantine. No arrest.  No slap on the wrist from the health department, other than saying it's a mandatory quarantine now.  And, according to the TMZ article, the health department officials are downplaying this as no big deal to get take-out food in a public, crowded restaurant.  Meanwhile, the other member of that NBC crew remains hospitalized as he's being treated for an active case of Ebola.

There is a huge liability here and potential liability for anyone exposed to these crew members, I don't care if they're not showing symptoms, how does anyone know they're not carriers?

The four major networks are distancing themselves from this story.  But if this had been a high-profile celebrity from Fox News that person and the crewmembers would have been vilified. Everyone including the hosts of many talk shows would have called for firings.  Still, everyone is silent because it's NBC?  This sounds like the networks honoring a "courtesy request" not to provide coverage and to let the story disappear.

Lawsuit.  Is that what it will take for someone from NBC News to speak up or put out a statement? "Privacy issues" is just a BS excuse for everyone on the crew and at NBC News not to speak up.

Tipping my hat to Planet Princeton for even reporting this story, otherwise it would have gone unnoticed.  But you listened to the customers who complained when they stood in line with this crewmember and saw Dr. Nancy Synderman, which instantly made those customers worry about their own health.

It's just unbelievable when an entertainment site such as TMZ is now at the forefront of reporting health news in this country.  Without TMZ catapulting the story into overdrive with high-level exposure, no one would have ever known.  Thank you Planet Princeton and TMZ for excellent coverage.