16-10-2014, 05:59 AM
Ironic, but not too surprising that after W. African nations, the USA has become the first Western country with the possible widespread of Ebola. That second nurse went on a plane with 132 person the day before she was hospitalized - yet I don't hear that the CDC or anyone is contacting those persons [or those who were in the hospital with the man who died of Ebola]...and isolating them as well as tracking those who they, in turn, have been in contact with. Without such measures Ebola could spread in the USA like wildfire. The more 'developed' and mobile the society - the quicker such a disease will spread! The USA is as unprepared to deal with this as are the poor W. African countries, sadly. We have the technical resources - but do not have the will, the care, the infrastructure of national health care, etc. We don't even have MSF - who know how to treat Ebola and maybe should be sent to poor 'ol USA to help out. Meanwhile Obama is talking tough and saying that he'll send CDC 'swat teams' (disgusting analogy!) to anywhere there is a case of Ebola. Well, there are several hundred potential ones and I don't see the 'CDC swat teams'. If the USA would put as much effort and money into stopping such diseases as they have in bioweapons and just ordinary weapons, then something might happen positive. We're all in the same small 'boat' called Planet Earth - and with modern communications and travel, what befalls one befalls all.....
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass