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Feds treat Ebola like a hangnail
By Charlie Freeman
October 05, 2014
Sunday PM
I do not understand how the U.S. leaders can poo poo the potential threat of a pandemic. If they're trying to prevent panic, they're doing a poor job of it. My self, I'd feel more secure if I saw some effort at containment. Aparently none of the "highly trained" people ever read a history book. The Black Plague was too far back for these people to think about, but the world wide influenza epidimic of the early 1900's should be close enough for a look. This was a time of coal fired steam ships. Most travelers would have died weeks before they got here. And yet the virus arrived and killed an untold number of Americans. You only need to go to Villiage Island or old Klinkwan to see the results. Two or three children buried in the same grave, parents beside them. That's just local. Nation wide, it was worse. World wide, it was horrible.
And the Feds treat Ebola like a hangnail. Can they possibly be that stupid? A virus knows no race, no color, no age, no gender, no sexual prefrence. It just kills. So, I got some idiot doctor, on NPR, saying that he moved the people who were living in the aparment {which took a week or so to get around to cleaning } saying that he drove them to their new apparment without any protection because there was no danger. Got a wife and an 8 or 9 yr. daughter. Is this smart? Were I married to him, I'd have shot his dumb self on the walkway.
Okay, the question of ths rant is why are we not doing what's right to protect ourselves? I do not understand.
Charlie Freeman
Ketchikan, Alaska
Received October 04, 2014
- Published October 05, 2014
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