Just as Robert Frost showed in "Good Fences Make Good
Neighbors" that the opposite of the title was true, America has seen
policies proposed that would make fighting Ebola more difficult.
In the last couple of years we have seen the Republican
congress cut the amount of money going to the Center for Disease Control. This
same mindset resulted in the Presby Hospital in Texas having the most infected
medical personnel in the world, outside of Africa.
Now the same Republicans want to stop air traffic between the
African Countries and America, a decision that has been decried by every expert
on infectious disease. You need to move personnel in to fight the disease. Rick
Perry, whose state supported hospital bungled their Ebola treatment, is calling
for such a ban.
Republican Sen.Rand Paul, who believe it or not has an MD,
is against our sending troops to Liberia to build treatment centers, because he
believes these troops will come back and infect America.
There is much happening that also shows the underside of
America. A volunteer who was in Africa to fight Ebola voluntarily quarantined himself
for 21 days just to be extra precautious . His neighbors responded on social
media to mobilize to burn his house down, which thankfully was prevented.
Because across the country K-12 education has been severely
dumb downed, we have a nation that doesn't have any idea about how to look at
infectious disease. If America dissolves into a group of no-nothings, we can
blame the teachers' unions for being more concerned with protecting
incompetents than actually educating our youth. This won't be the last crisis
abetted and confused by an ill informed electorate.
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