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In reply to the discussion: #Ebola #Obamacare pic [View all]
 

SheilaT

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13. I am not intending to start an argument, and hope that this response
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:18 PM
Oct 2014

does not seem argumentative, but I think to say that they just don't care is an oversimplification. There are lots of things I just don't care about, like the baseball stuff that's going on right now, but my not caring about that has no larger implications.

Not seeing any connection between health care and other things in the larger world, like epidemics, is far more than not caring. Not seeing the connection is precisely why they've been so willing to defund public health, to be willing to let others go without health care. It's part of the view that so many, especially the very religious among them have, that they were put on earth to be in charge of things and that nothing humans do could possibly have bad consequences on a global scale.

You are right that they don't care, but why the don't care is the scary and dangerous part.

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