IMPORTANT UPDATE: Patient isolated in Honolulu hospital as officials say Ebola case possible

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10. Ohhhhhhhh fuuuuuuuuuck...

I've got just one thing to say:

THIS, TOO, IS NATIONAL SECURITY.

Frankly, I think we may need to say screw ISIS, screw Israel (sorry, but THIS is a bigger priority - and it's GLOBAL, so this would - no, WILL ultimately affect Israel too), screw economic stimulus, screw EVERYTHING that IS NOT directly involved in the health sector. We need to throw EVERY DOLLAR WE CAN FIND into America's health care infrastructure. RE-INFUSE the N.I.H. and C.D.C with boatloads of bucks for research AND staffing, go hard and go heavy. PRIORITY ONE. Put us on a national "war footing" on THIS specific issue. Defy the fucking sequester rules and UN-cut the N.I.H. and C.D.C., raise taxes across the board and funnel all that money into research so that we develop vaccines and ENOUGH OF THEM so that public health is secure.

If we don't go global-thermo-nuclear on this NOW, it will spread faster and farther than our ability to contain it.