The Path and Response of Ebola in America
By Malik Sekou Osei
October 16th, 2014
America has become the more than consistent partner in the dance of
profane crisis. The dance of overreaching imperialism and containing the
crisis of the world outside of its borders, It failure has become more than
obvious seems to rely on its optimistic rhetoric of American
Exceptionalism that finds expression in the loquacious elucidation by
Barack Obama. While the American celebrity culture of denial and distraction
will not prepare its internal population for the necessity of rapid
Universal Health Care and health care as a human right and not a privilege
of private profit based on race and class distributions, while the American
social and political fantasy as reality as always been the talking-head
sterile phenomenon of investigation and protracted due process. Where
nothing is actually done and only an articulation of officials to only
rationalize smaller and better government and the centralize discipline of
the private sector, through seemly rational subterfuge arguing efficiency.
This subterfuge is given arguments of efficiency of distribution (for
profit) over socialize medicine and bureaucracy. For the political and
social culture in America the thinking is the best social and political
organization to give services is one that private and profit making.
While in understanding any response to any American crisis, one has to
look and elucidate; in whose interests in terms of profits does retorting to
crisis benefits.
What makes American social and political culture more than unique is how
easily the American population can be distracted by slogans of American
Exceptionalism through the delusions of celebrity culture. For American
culture has only the conceptualization of the pragmatic slave who has to
experience work condition of the slave-mode-of-production after hearing the
master convince him about free room and board.
This has been the principle response of the Obama admiration of
sentimental and emotive subterfuge of everyone to chip in to carry out state
responsibilities of health, like eating more vegetables and avoiding bacon
cheese burgers, while no one has adequate health care protection or
coverage.
This week we all have seen very new development with the fluidity of Ebola
and every new development in the Ebola outbreak in the United States further
exposes the inept, mediocre and reckless character of the official US
response to what the World Health Organization has called unquestionably
the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times.
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> The World Health Organization
Last Wednesday, the sobering news from US officials revealed that a
second nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital engaged in treating the
lifeless body of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan had tested positive for
the disease. The was allowed to fly on a commercial aircraft twice, from
Dallas to Cleveland and back, after having been exposed to the disease. She
then reported having a fever during her return flight.
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> National Nurses United
On Tuesday, may not believe the actual protocol of the hospital
administration in relation to their own health care workers in facing its
first Ebola victim. One would think that an administration of health care
would know the correct protocol in handling any victim of Ebola. National
Nurses United, which is the largest nurses union in the US, revealed that
nurses at the hospital had been directed by administrators to provide care
for Duncan, a native of Liberia, with only part of their faces and necks
exposed. They were told to counterbalance for their lack protective
equipment by wrapping medical tape around their exposed skin. The only shows
the cynical disregard for the work conditions of the working nurses and
other health care professionals.
Despite nurses' objections and complaints, Thomas Duncan was left for
hours in a common waiting area with other patients, possibly infecting them.
His lab specimens were allowed to travel unprotected throughout the
hospital's tube system, possibly contaminating the entire system. Nurses
forced to treat Duncan with inadequate protective garments were then told to
carry out their normal hospital duties, visiting and possibly infecting
other patients.
These shocking and offensive violations of basic Ebola contamination
protocols took place after Duncan had been taken to the hospital a second
time in an ambulance because family members suspected that he had gotten the
disease.
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> Barack Obama
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> Susan Rice
On Wednesday, President Obama responded to mounting public concern and
criticism by staging a photo-op with cabinet officials, including Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel and National Security Adviser Susan Rice. He issued a
brief and routine statement and took no questions from the press in what was
clearly an exercise in damage control.
Nothing said by Obama or any other government official can be
believed. Their dominating concern is to cover up their responsibility for
the disaster, not to speak the truth with the people about what is necessary
to protect them.
The first known victims of the negligence of hospital and government
officials are medical workers, whose lives have been recklessly endangered.
The indifference to the safety and health of these workers sums up the
attitude of the ruling class to the well-being of the population as a whole.
This is not the first time that an emergency has exposed the fact that
matters relating to the health and social conditions of the general public
are of absolutely no concern to those who wield economic and political power
in America.
Nine years ago, the virtual destruction of a major American city by
Hurricane Katrina exposed the lack of any preventive measures to combat the
impact of a major flood in a region repeatedly flooded in the past, or
protect the lives of New Orleans working Black community. The disaster
itself blatantly exposed the scandalous conditions of poverty, and the
belated, random and hopelessly incompetent and insufficient government
response led to nearly 2,000 deaths
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Just five years later, the massive oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig once again exposed the criminal negligence of the
corporations and the complicity of the government. This was an entirely
man-made disaster, the result of cost-cutting and unsafe methods on the part
of BP that was accelerated by the government regulatory agencies. The
cleanup effort was handed over to the company that was responsible for the
disaster in first place.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Deepwater Horizon Oil
explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> In between and since there have been
countless plant explosions, fires, coal mine disasters and industrial
accidents in cities throughout the United States.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> The American corporate capital businesses
with its political frontmen such as Obama view issues affecting the safety
and well-being of the American population as more of an annoyance. They
lessen from the business of generating ever greater profits for the
corporations and ever greater fortunes for the rich and the super-rich.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Like every other aspect of the social
infrastructure of America, the health care system has been degraded as a
result of decades of budget cuts and profit-gouging by pharmaceutical and
insurance companies and hospital chains.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> While it had been known for decades that
an Ebola outbreak could happen in the United States, no effort was made to
adequately prepare for one. No vaccine has been brought into production.
Instead, the resources needed to address pressing health issues have been
diverted to pay for war and conquest abroad and the ever-greater enrichment
of the American financial aristocracy.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Earlier this week, World Health
Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan explained the failure to
develop an Ebola vaccine, saying, a profit-driven industry does not invest
in products for markets that cannot pay.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Dr. Margaret Chan Dr.
Francis Collins
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the US
National Institutes of Health, told the Huffington Post that a vaccine for
Ebola would likely already exist if not for multi-billion dollar cutbacks in
health care research.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> While, it must be noted that Barack Obama
is simply a continuation of US policy of imperialism and thus the
contradiction is beyond him and his administration, but nevertheless he is
just a continuation of the system of private profit. Where all institutions
within capitalism are solely governed for and by profit and this takes
effect in the lives and conditions of the people and life expectancies.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> These latest disasters expose the
bankruptcy and failure not just of one administration, but of the capitalist
profit system itself. The subordination of all social concerns, including
health care, to the corporate drive for profit and the money-mad greed of
the ruling elite, together with the irrational division of the world into
rival nation states, makes the rational and socially beneficial development
and utilization of the productive forces impossible. Instead, obscene levels
of wealth in the hands of a few are accompanied by the decay of basic social
services and mounting poverty for the masses.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> A serious campaign to halt the widening
Ebola outbreak in Africa and its spread to the US and other countries
requires:
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> A) The establishment of an international
team of doctors, scientists and health care professionals to take the
response to the crisis out of the hands of corporate-dominated governments.
This team, developing a global plan of action, must be provided with
whatever resources are neededhowever many billions of dollarsto treat all
those already infected and prevent the spread of the disease.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> B) A state-funded research program
completely independent of the profit interests of the health care industry,
the drug companies and the insurance giants must be established to rapidly
develop and make available to all an anti-Ebola vaccine as the first step in
conquering this and other infectious diseases that are linked to poverty.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> This is not merely a scientific task. It
is a political question.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> It is necessary to draw the appropriate
conclusions from the Ebola outbreak and the string of disasters and
calamities that preceded it. The application of a rational and humane
response to the Ebola calamity, along with all the other social
contradictions and predicaments that are intrinsic to a society based on
exploitation, requires a struggle by the people and their revolutionary
commitment and organization to reorganize society on socialist foundations
to meet social needs, not private profit. This includes taking the profit
out of medicine and providing high-quality health care to all as a social
right.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> The first step is to negate the subterfuge
and gather a greater clarity of the contradiction of the world and the
enemies of humanity.
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> For History is on our side, but not time
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ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0>
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ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0>
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> EM
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> On the 49th Parallel
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ters%5bterm%5d=hurricane%20katrina&filters%5bprimary%5d=images&filters%5bsec
ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0> Thé Mulindwas Communication
Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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ondary%5d=videos&sort=1&o=0>
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