Brad Lowe <ecatbuil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It was just two weeks ago Obama said it would be unlikely that Ebola
> would reach the US.


Well, cases were already brought here, deliberately, to Atlanta. As they
should have been.

If you took that to mean, "not a single case of Ebola will reach the US
under any circumstances," you do not understand the nature of disease. In
the largest, most mobile country on earth, with extreme air transport
mobility, it is not possible to exclude the disease entirely.

What Obama meant, and what the CDC means, is that an epidemic or pandemic
in the U.S. is extremely unlikely. I think that is a reasonable evaluation.
If the disease goes pandemic in Africa with millions of people infected,
then I think the danger of spreading to epidemic levels in the US Europe
and Japan will be much higher.

This should have been controlled months ago when it was still below
epidemic levels in Africa. People at the CDC and other professionals were
pleading for the resources to control it. It is not their fault that this
happened. It is the fault of the kleptocracy governments in Africa that
have stripped their nations of resources, and it is the fault of people in
the U.S. and elsewhere who oppose reasonable levels of funding for
healthcare and scientific research because they are opposed to science.
They despise rational, objective thinking. I'm looking at you,
anti-vaccers, and you, creationists. Here is the world you want put us back
in, where children die in agony, writhing in filth on the floor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-spreading-in-west-africa.html

The people at the CDC and Doctors without Borders are dedicated
professionals who see this kind of disease in person. Believe me, they know
what they are doing and they are trying to stop this. They are not to blame
for any of this.

- Jed

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