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FSogol's JournalGood articles on Ebola
Judy Stone (Scientific American) - Ebola in the U.S.Politics and Public Health Dont Mix
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/2014/10/06/ebola-in-the-u-s-politics-and-public-health-dont-mix/
Atul Gawande The Ebola Epidemic Is Stoppable
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/ebola-epidemic-stoppable
David Dobbs Our Ebola response shows our true colors. Aint pretty.
http://daviddobbs.net/smoothpebbles/our-ebola-response-shows-our-true-colors-aint-pretty/
Eli Perencevich Ebola and WHO budget cuts
http://haicontroversies.blogspot.com/2014/10/ebola-and-who-budget-cuts.html
Ian MacKay What words would you use to separate influenza spread from Ebola virus disease spread?
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/what-words-would-you-use-to-separate.html
Laurie Garrett Obamacare may hold the key to saving the U.S. from Ebola
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/02/obamacare_may_hold_the_key_to_saving_the_us_from_ebola
Tara Smith No, Ebola in Dallas does not mean you and everyone else in the US is going to get it, too
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/ebola-dallas-spreading-across-america
Peter Piot- In 1976 I discovered Ebola now I fear an unimaginable tragedy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak?CMP=twt_gu
If you are getting your info from CNN, HuffPost, or cable TV, you are probably misinformed.
"annual funding for the CDC’s public health preparedness & response efforts were $1 billion lower
for 2013 fiscal year than for 2002."
This quote is from a Scientific American article by Judy Stone: Ebola in the U.S.Politics and Public Health Dont Mix
And we need to take the politics out of funding for public health and research. We need to approve a strong Surgeon General like Dr. Vivek Murthy, and not have appointments like his be derailed by the NRA and their politicians. NIHs budget was reduced by $446 million from 2010 to 2014, and subjected to inappropriate politically motivated interference in its decision making. The CDCs discretionary funding was cut by $585 million during this same period. Shockingly, annual funding for the CDCs public health preparedness and response efforts were $1 billion lower for 2013 fiscal year than for 2002. These funding decreases have resulted in more than 45,700 job losses at state and local health departments since 2008. Again, it is not just the Ebola that is a looming threat. We need to worry about vaccine-preventable but neglected infections like influenza, measles, and whooping cough; the serious emerging viral infections in the US like Enterovirus-D68, chikungunya and dengue, as well as overseas MERS and bird flus, and natural disasters.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/2014/10/06/ebola-in-the-u-s-politics-and-public-health-dont-mix/
Best article on the issues I have come across and flies in the face of the propaganda emanating from the Cato Institute, Huffington Post, and other RW news sources.
Robert McDonnell’s other big scandal
Bob McDonnell will go into history as the first of 72 Virginia governors to be convicted of corruption, but we should remember him as well for a second scandal that cost the taxpayers a ton of money.
McDonnells curious, long-standing obsession with building a new highway parallel to U.S. 460 outside Hampton Roads led his administration to spend $300 million (and counting) without first ensuring that the project would receive necessary environmental permits.
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As a result, the state cant recoup the $300 million it has spent. That money is gone, wasted, without a spadeful of dirt being turned for a 55-mile highway so little needed that I previously dubbed it the Road for Nobody.
Whole WaPo article by Robert McCartney here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/robert-mcdonnells-other-big-scandal-bum-deal-on-us-460-project-cost-virginia-plenty/2014/10/11/ebf08fc6-50be-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html
Wonder which RW cronies collected that $300 million. Any US attorneys on this case?
Robert McDonnell’s other big scandal
Bob McDonnell will go into history as the first of 72 Virginia governors to be convicted of corruption, but we should remember him as well for a second scandal that cost the taxpayers a ton of money.
McDonnells curious, long-standing obsession with building a new highway parallel to U.S. 460 outside Hampton Roads led his administration to spend $300 million (and counting) without first ensuring that the project would receive necessary environmental permits.
snip
As a result, the state cant recoup the $300 million it has spent. That money is gone, wasted, without a spadeful of dirt being turned for a 55-mile highway so little needed that I previously dubbed it the Road for Nobody.
Whole WaPo article by Robert McCartney here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/robert-mcdonnells-other-big-scandal-bum-deal-on-us-460-project-cost-virginia-plenty/2014/10/11/ebf08fc6-50be-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html
Wonder which RW cronies collected that $300 million? Any US attorneys on this case?
Tom Toles on the Republican Strategy
"How the Ape Brain Asseses Risk" - Tom the Dancing Bug
"Isis, Ebola, and now Sex and the City 3. The news just keeps getting worse and worse."
- Frank Conniff (TV's Frank)
Also: "So far Ebola has been contained in one Dallas hospital, and the outbreak of Benghazi remains quarantined in Fox News studios."
https://twitter.com/FrankConniff
TOM THE DANCING BUG: Great Moments in Weatherology Science
Letterman's Top Ten Secret Service Excuses
From Tuesday, September 30, 2014
10. "You try running full speed in a suit"
9. "Thought it was Biden"
8. "Can't just assume every guy storming the White House is a threat"
7. "We always mute the alarm during 'Jeopardy'"
6. "We're only here till Thursday"
5. "We need a dome"
4. "Can't see a thing through these dark glasses"
3. "About time someone in Washington got off the fence -- and I right, ladies?"
2. "Didn't George W. Bush prove anyone can get into the White House?"
1. "Excuse? What happened?"
at #2.
Tom Toles on the latest intruder
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