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though I'd been catching him playing at a decent number of nyc events, I only went to a handful of the nights Eric Duncan was holding working his magic at Passerby. that said, his work and the way he works the floor, has always been a big influence on me. having had missed too many of those parties, now whenever he plays, I don't ask questions. I go. I dance.

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Passerby generated a lot of good stories of mine ... some really embarrassing (still good). at one party Stan and I came out to find someone had stolen his bike. that used to happen frequently because back then he refused to lock his bike, instead trusting on the goodness of humanity

we were saying the word, "fuck" a lot when I overheard a woman on her phone on the sidewalk next to us. "what?! you're at a liquor store? and you stole a bike to go there and buy beer? we were at a bar! what? you'll be right back??"

5 mins later a guy rides up on Stan's bike with a 12 pack under his arm

maybe not the best representation of humanity, so we're left with the goodness of an alcoholic

So the nurse who extensively treated Eric Duncan - the first patient in the US suffering from Ebola - has contracted the disease. This is the first case of someone in the US contracting the deadly disease.

We all know what happened to Eric Duncan. Makes me wonder, what is this nurse's fate?! There is a lot of talk about several breaks in protocol, lapse in services and other mistakes made by the hospital but the truth is it is routine for healthcare providers to have the same disease as the patients they are treating.

This is perhaps a really bad thing to say but for me the question arises what happens if this nurse gets better? With all my heart I wish the nurse well and hope and pray she recovers from this horrible disease but if she does will I be the only one asking how come? How come the hospital treated her and she got better but Eric Duncan died?

I sincerely hope the nurse does not meet the same fate as Eric Duncan but if she doesn't will it mean the CDC and other personnel do not care about non-US citizens? Or is it a race issue combined with not being a citizen? (Full disclosure: I do not know the nurse's race. My guess they have kept all that information confidential).

So far a few US citizens have contracted the disease in other countries and most of them have been cured so why did Eric Duncan not have the same fate? Granted he made a lot of mistakes but does that mean the US had to take his life to prove a point?