is being ginned up by the media since it sells to the public... They are over fear mongering with it... But since they have been covering this; the American People are getting a front row seat as to how their govt isn't working. You have a starved Federal Govt, a health care model that is privatized and only motivated by profit, and a state like TX that half the time wants to succeed from the country (until they have a crisis).
Every level of this infectious disease shows America that it's unprepared for a real epidemic - which could happen with any number of diseases. Just look at the levels of FAIL from the hospital turning this man out of the ER, to haphazard protocols within the system of the private hospitals that have profit margins and bean counters creating unsafe practices and unqualified staffing procedures (I believe they don't have Union nurses that could demand for training and protocols to be set up), you have the state of TX which refuses to even take on the ACA to help out its poor folks with medical access and for hospitals and such to receive billions in revenue to help cover these poor patients when they come into the ER.... And then at the federal level, you have Republicans drowning govt in a bath tub (who are on a vacation at this time), levels of beuracracy's that seem to operate as a unit unprepared to actually operate in real time (the CDC or whatever should have a means to take over or be working with hospitals to train and teach people how to deal with contamination and infectious diseases - and doing some of these procedures on a regular basis would help to eliminate issues within a hospital for spreading other things like the flu to other patients).... In general, this really shows that our health care services shouldn't be based upon "for profit" Wall at earnings and bean counters deciding what is adequate care or staffing issues (u know they are overworking these nurses to death), and that maybe if we had a single payer type of system or some type of govt regulated and operated system of healthcare for everyone, we wouldn't have Had this ER throwing the Ebola guy out and maybe the CDC would come in immediately and take over care for any type of deadly disease like this.
The fact that the nurse was told it was ok to fly with a fever from the CDC is pretty outrageous given the circumstances of her situation... I wonder why she was flying at all? And how many nurses and staff are working with other patients, going to the grocery store, kissing their SO or children at night? And this virus has been around for at least 40yrs, no one has worked on a vaccine or what not in ernest because its been a "poor African's disease" for the most part. And had the world come together when the outbreak first came up, they could have probably limited the size of the episode. All the way around, Ebola is really showing how horrific our govt is working on all levels and that the greed and trickle down approach is really causing people to be harmed and possibly even die. And still, I doubt this will fix things in a positive manner. It will just be partisan bickering and name calling and blaming, rather than fixing and addressing the real issues.
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