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Signs of systemic failure do not bode well for not just Ebola. Faith in institutions is paramount to containment and lack of it contributed greatly to its spread in Africa.[/quote]
I’m not sure what “signs of systemic failure” and “faith in institutions” mean. But what contributed greatly to the spread of ebola in Africa is rituals involving touching dead bodies in a way that subjects persons to that dead person’s bodily fluids. Those are rituals that Americans are educated enough to avoid (or maybe, in some cases, just lucky enough not to regularly participate in).
I don’t think I understand the desire to be afraid of ebola or of armageddon in general. I wonder if maybe there’s an excitement factor involved. I think a lot of people are excited to be afraid of ebola or nuclear war or the christian armageddon or the collapse of capitalism or whatever world-changing thing it is they’re afraid of.
If you want to be afraid of a germ, might I suggest you be afraid of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That is ten thousand times more likely to kill you than ebola, and the threat is growing. Not as exciting as ebola. But way more dangerous.
There are people out there lounging in the sun or eating big macs or not exercising or driving like idiots or riding their bikes on the road and at the same time freaking out about ebola. That doesn’t make any sense at all. Any of those habits are thousands of times more likely to kill you than ebola.
Heck, not flossing is more likely to kill you than ebola.[/quote]
Let’s not focus so much on the ebola virus but the bumbling that led to a deadly virus reaching our shores and how we failed to protect the general public. Sure nobody else has contracted ebola from the Dallas carrier but being sent home from a hospital after ebola had been all over the news forever and having told the hospital he came from Liberia? I’d say we are definitely more lucky than good.
I know that ER’s get overworked and things slip through the cracks but 2 people, the Nurse and the Doctor had the chance to prevent further exposures.
In the old days they would just be fired but nowadays they want to look at hospital procedures and see if they can call it a flaw in the system.
I get enjoyment from eating burgers and being out in the sun – those are my choices. I don’t think I would get any enjoyment at all from ebola.
I agree, ebola is not likely to kill ME but if I was one of those exposed after a carrier was sent home from a hospital I would not be too happy right now having to listen to the CDC tell everyone how they will stop ebola in its tracks.
