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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I think other countries understand the implication they face, the problems they face, getting involved more and more with this problem. The solution to the problem is finding a vaccine, which the world is working on. There are countries all over the world, trying to develop vaccines to irradicate this disease. We are the only country that is more concern with helping masses of people and out of some sense of compassion, risk exposure of our own population to horrific diseases. We send healthcare workers, we send "boots on the ground", we build hospitals and clinics and set up isolation areas, we send billions of dollars in money, research, medical supplies,financial aid, etc and if all that is not enough, just let us know how much more we can cough up, shake from our money trees, take from our nest eggs....
The United States is the most hated country on the face of the earth, we are the laughing stock of the rest of the world, and we are expected to save the entire world, by countries that hate us the most. Crazy, crazy, crazy..........and so sad. Just tell us what you need and by golly, we will send it post haste, by hook or by crook....just how much more must we be required to deliver, or made to feel like we are "cruel, inhumane, incompassionate" sloths. We have a couple of real allies....our wonderful neighbors to the north-Canada....England, Australia, Israel... think that is about the size of it....but we are expected to heal , clothe, feed, cultivate, and defend the entire rest of the world. Excuse me while I go draw another bucketfull of money from the well out back...... |
I've read that very little of those promised funds and supplies have been delivered to the Ebola fight so far. That's really depressing.
I'll bet many Americans won't take an Ebola vaccine that's been rushed to the market - won't even get long-established yearly vaccines for flu that vary only as to the strains, measles and pertussis for their kids or flu vax for themselves for fear of dire side effects.
Wonder how many Africans will actually line up for a brand new Ebola vaccine - I'll bet it will be small numbers unless their government somehow could make them take it and then good luck tracking them all down. They'd have to go house-to-house, business-by-business, school-by-school, field-by-field, village-by-village and probably still couldn't get 1/3 of them inoculated if they really wanted to avoid it.
Unless those countries are going to have a safe Ebola vaccine by December, we're in real trouble as W.H.O. says there could be 10,000 Ebola cases a week by then. Boots on the ground workers to do the real work - establish strict isolation wards, disinfectant protocols, teach and perform safe biohazard waste management and disposal, teach safe burial techniques, plain old doctoring/nursing of violently sick patients and teaching Ebola contagion facts are what's needed
right now. The world needs a huge deployment of smart, trained, dedicated healthcare workers flooding over there this instant if we want to stop a raging epidemic.