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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  If he dropped the ball somewhere, he should be hammered for not being a superman but running a huge state with the growing GDP of Texas, larger than many countries, gaining huge populations by the day as people flock here at the rate of 1000 a day and the wide-based economy grows, with all its attendant issues, is no picnic and the governor is often stretched in many different directions, unable to personally handle every crises. To be honest, I doubt Rick Perry thought a single case of Ebola - or even three - is a glaring catastrophe in the scheme of things, unlike the media and some people.
Now that the media spotlight is on all states, all the govs have stepped up their game but still nurses unions all over the country are apparently complaining their hospitals aren't ready and few governors have apparently stepped up to ready their state, California among them, from the sound of the linked article below. The article says no California hospital is ready to care for an Ebola patient according to the nurses in that union state so I doubt Presbyterian is the only inadequate hospital or Perry the only coasting gov on this issue when so many others issues and crises will still be there when the Ebola scare has passed. Nurses to Jerry Brown: California isn?t ready for Ebola | The Sacramento Bee |
The media spotlight in on other states
because of what went down in TX. The state level Health Dept. should have closed the boarders of TX to the healthcare workers that were in contact with the Ebola. It's not like they didn't have the power to stop travel via quarantine. As I'm typing looks like NJ and NY have just quarantined all travelers from Ebola zones. So obviously, this is something that should have been done in TX at the state level. I'm not really sure what you are talking about when you bring up all of these "people flocking" to the state or what that has to do with any of this for that matter. I've been to TX and well to tell you the truth Chicago is much more my style.
