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