Has anyone noticed how oddly similar the Ebola strain looks to Michaelangelo's "Creation of Adam"? Coincidence? I think not.
Anyway, that's not the point of this post, Mr. Obama. The point of the post is to call you out on a few things where you have publicly criticized "hysteria and fear". This is because you totally missed the boat on why people are afraid. They have legitimate concerns that haven't been addressed by the government that is elected to look out for them. Here's what you missed.
Ebola didn't originate in the US, but it got here due to gross negligence. It wasn't random, it wasn't happenstance, it wasn't chance, it wasn't a roll of the dice. The American government allowed the virus to come here in its quest to try and be a superpower: "We can cure anything!!!" Of course, not caring about who dies along the way, mind. Because every cure came at the expense of countless humans; one only need look at the bubonic plague to see what I mean. The problem, Mr. President, is that we should not try to cure everyone else's problems when we have difficulty sorting our own problems out.
1. Distraction
Did you know, Mr. President, that the hospitals weren't even focusing on getting their staff trained to handle Ebola properly? You didn't? Even though the hospital administration down in Texas released a letter admitting such? But they weren't focused on the training because they didn't feel it was necessary at that time. Perhaps that was short-sighted, but one might argue that a logical course of action when you hear that a deadly virus is spreading in a country where there's a possibility of Americans transmitting it back home, is to lock down travel and screen any passengers coming from that country in a place that is 100% isolated from American citizens: an island, for example. Now maybe there aren't sufficient health care facilities on any islands. Fair enough - but it leads the question, why not? Easy...because people didn't think it'd be necessary, because again, it's logical to assume that you wouldn't allow the virus inside in the first place. Everyone's distracted, including you.
But let's look at what's distracting you. First, you're focused on sending more troops to help fight the virus. Troops who of course aren't trained to deal with it either, who have families back home that they might want to see. Troops who might very well be exposed to danger by that order...
Second, you've got threats from ISIS - you know, that organization that has no problems killing Americans either. Just like ebola has no problem killing human beings. It makes you wonder though: isn't it possible that ISIS could very well use this disease to its advantage? Again, one might assume that possibility and take the initiative by locking down the borders. You didn't do that.
I do appreciate that you've got other more important things to deal with, like Eric Holder leaving and the failure of your CDC administration team in the face of them lying to you and the rest of America (and continuing to do so, mind).
I realize that you've got to ensure that NSA gets all the free and clear, unwarranted, unprovoked, unmetered, unfiltered, uncensored, uncontrolled access that it wants, and that you've got to dedicate resources to ensuring that no device vendor can ensure the privacy of Americans - despite the fact that such protection is only necessary due to the overreach of those that ultimately are accountable, and report, to you.
It's clear that you need to ensure TSA can continue body scanning Americans at airports and patting down children and wheelchair-ridden elderly; there's no need to screen for a deadly virus when we can make sure that the bottle of formula that baby is drinking is really formula.
I get that you need to create a haven for illegal immigrants who are chewing up American resources faster than we can recreate them - of course, since not all resources are renewable, means we're apt to run out of them sooner or later. Like jobs.
Please don't think I'm not sympathetic to the enormous load you're battling.
2. Agenda
It's been thought that the opportunity of ebola is really population control: it's well known that America is in some ways busting at the seams with not enough jobs, quality housing or money to go around. We know that people like myself simply won't benefit from anything called Social Security, since it won't exist by the time I would normally take advantage of it despite pumping many hundreds of thousands of dollars into it. The question is, is it possible that there really is a cure for ebola - one that could have saved Mr. Duncan, but one that has been withheld as a result of this hidden agenda? I don't know. That's the problem - Americans have no idea what the real story is. The CDC lied to us. The hospitals lied to us. The NSA lied to us. Cops lie to us. Everyone associated with the government to citizens. Used to be said that a bunch of lying is a precursor to a hidden agenda.
One thing you've repeatedly said is that things are under control. But is that another lie? I don't know, and that's the problem. When we have no other facts to go on, we can only assume there's another agenda - a reason why we're not getting the truth. That might be as small as "we just don't know what to do about ebola" (which, if that's the case, would at least be a start towards honesty), to as large as "well, this is a chance to deal with that illegal immigration problem we've got! *wink*wink*"
3. Causality
A very wise man said, "Causality. Action...reaction. Cause...and effect." Means that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Also means that a root cause of a thing must also have a defined effect even if that effect is not immediately apparent.
The problem is that the American government is trying to avoid taking the natural and logical reaction. You're steering down a different road, as it were. The moment we hear "there's a deadly virus in Africa", American citizens will instinctively say "well, we need to lock down the borders, screen anyone coming from those countries, and redirect them to a care facility outside of America so that the disease cannot spread here!" I figure roughly 80% of those same Americans would even support sending qualified aid where possible. As long as the disease does not come here, people will support that. But that's not what you think.
In the government's mind, you say, "well, we can cure that, bring them on in! We'll protect them." Problem? You don't even understand the virus fully. How can you fully ensure protection that way when you don't have a full handle on the virus and how it works? Instead of doing the logical thing which is to err on the side of caution and proceed under the assumption of uncertainty, you leap directly in there, Americans be damned, to prove a point at our expense. Is that what we signed up for? I don't think it is.
After that faulty decision, we hear that the virus has now been exposed to a few Americans here in the States where it was otherwise preventable. That's the key - it's not that we don't want to help people. But we do want to prevent any sort of exposure that is unnecessary.
Is ebola airborne? It can be. It can actually survive outside for quite a long time. You say that exposure to bodily fluids is the only means of getting to another person. I don't think you need the MythBusters to tell you that if someone infected by the disease were to sneeze in your general area, it's getting into your system no matter what you do. Your eyes, your nose, whatever. You say it doesn't like the lungs; it doesn't have to stay there, since if it gets in through your nose it has a 50/50 shot of getting into your stomach. You say it's safe to dump into the public sewer system; despite an entire town having its water compromised by a similar (though not as deadly) virus using that logic.
All of these things that I'm listing are just stuff off the top of my head, and I'm not swearing by any of it. I'm putting there to show you that your lack of honesty about the situation creates the fear that you want us to suppress. The fear won't go away as long as you promote it with mystery and falsehoods, and frankly, the laid back attitude by the CDC is just making things worse.
You have a chance to make things right, though. Speak up. Admit that the virus is at the moment out of your control, then commit to getting a handle on it, EVEN IF IT MEANS LOCKING DOWN THE BORDERS temporarily.
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