Here's the real lesson of the Ebola crisis

[Yavin4]

If we have to have a global economy, then we have to have global infrastructure that supports that economy with healthcare being a priority item. EVERY nation on the planet needs to have up-to-code healthcare facilities. Proper healthcare standards need to be enforced every where. It's not enough to have them only in developed nations.

We cannot put the globalization genie back into the bottle. Businesses and laborers go all over the world. A contagious disease any where can become a contagious disease every where.

Hopefully, Americans are finally understanding why healthcare should be a basic part of our infrastructure that we should all pay for and support, not some benefit sparingly doled out by corporations.

[Voice for Peace]

1. very good point, it needs to be built-in

[riqster]

2. Indeed, such measures as you advocate could mitigate some of globalization's harms.

If every nation had equivalent infrastructure, the economic imbalances would be lessened.

[kmlisle]

3. I love this idea - lets expand it to job protections and labor rights as well

As some of our labor organizations have been trying to do for many years on a small scale. The NEA which I belonged to for 20 pus years has been supporting right s of teachers around the world for many years It will of course require an international governing body with more teeth than the UN has presently and you know who will oppose that!

[Shemp Howard]

4. Very well said! (nt)

[valerief]

5. Right. The multinationals who own the world leaders have failed. nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Oh Noes ...

Your promoting the "new world order" under "one world government" BKA, TPP!



BTW, I agree ... The world is long passed the illusion of siloed nation-states; international collaboration, is the way forward on just about any issue one cares to name.

[Jerry442]

7. But...but...but...it's good to do things that benefit us all collectively?

See what you did. You made Ayn Rand cry.

[The Blue Flower]

8. Could not agree more

The world is too small to think that what affects others does not affect us.

[WilliamPitt]

9. Tremendous post.

[Demeter]

10. Oh, yes we CAN put Globalization back in the bottle

or actually, its colossal failures will do that for us. Globalism is an epic failure, in economy, in public safety, in public health, in basic humanity, which gets lost in the shuffle of dollars and yen and yuan...


Globalism is a political-economic theory that is demonstrably flawed. It has been tested and found wanting. Get a theory that is more based in reality and less in abuse of power, and we will talk.

[kestrel91316]

12. That is not the context in which the term is being used.

We live in a global society. People travel from continent in a matter of hours. Our world is an aggressive pathogen's dream.

There is no going back to life without air travel or automobiles or huge commercial cargo ships. THAT'S what the poster is talking about.

[Yavin4]

16. Precisely. We cannot shut down the borders even if we wanted to.

It's simply not possible.

[daleanime]

11. K&R....

[TinkerTot55]

13. So we all push for the nomination....

of Yavin4 for Surgeon General?

[geretogo]

14. You hit the nail right on the head .

[NightWatcher]

15. I thought it was that you shouldn't lick random strangers

but your points are better.

We ALL live in a connected society regardless of if some repukes like it or not. We all sink or swim together when it comes to some things (the environment, healthcare...)