tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post3406193930248396517..comments2024-03-29T05:11:44.999-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: Ebola is Serious Business 2Vixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-3183752213844243602014-10-05T16:06:21.203-04:002014-10-05T16:06:21.203-04:00One of the other problems I see with people politi...One of the other problems I see with people politicizing the ebola crisis in Africa, as with politicizing every other thing (Benghazi, anyone?) is that it kinds of leads to a defeatist, "no one can do anything well ever" mentality. We can't stop climate change, reform health care or do anything about poverty. Why? Because all the solutions are Hitler riding on a sharknado with AIDS. Leaving no room for intelligent conversation. And I think that's what the shouters want on some level. Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-87116453570750291792014-10-05T11:14:50.614-04:002014-10-05T11:14:50.614-04:00The terrified, uninformed over reaction is mind bo...The terrified, uninformed over reaction is mind boggling. Here's a disease that's easy to contain and HARD to spread. It's spreading in a desperately poor region with literally NO modern public health services, and that's to be expected. But acting as if it poses a health threat to Americans here is stupid and/or manipulative. <br /><br />If you don't get the puke, poop or pee of an actively infected person IN YOUR BLOOD (like HIV, but nobody's going to have sex with a person with hemorrhagic symptoms), you can't get the disease. Help the people in the hot zone build some public health systems and institutions or don't, but can we PLEASE stop screaming that it represents some kind of "threat" to the US? (Not that I recognize you didn't do this, but the volume of the panicked voices is growing deafening.)mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com