The World dropped the ball!
When the latest Ebola epidemic was first identified in Spring, most policy makers in the across the world must have concluded that another "African" problem should be left the "heck" alone, even as a growing number of mostly religion based western charity raced to Liberia and Sierra Leone to help the struggling people of the poverty and war ravaged region cope with another epidemic.
Ukrain, Congress, Isreali-Palestinian crises, made-up Iran Nuclear crises, and Congress again occupied much of the focus of Western leaders. Or must I mention elections...
As the number of dead grows and even after Ebola showed up in Nigeria - Africa's most populated and arguably most mobile nation, the world's response was still mostly that of a tempered panic. The hand writing was on the world, but those with the wherewithal to mobile the kind of international resources and push were either vacationing or busy dithering about how to respond.
And now, the once fringe pandemic has found its way to the west, and policy makers are still concerned about petty issues. Last week, American leaders where busy outdoing themselves on if they should implement Ebola check on passengers from "Affected Nations" or perhaps on none. The problem with all these half-measures is that Ebola is here, and half-measures will not be enough.
When the latest Ebola epidemic was first identified in Spring, most policy makers in the across the world must have concluded that another "African" problem should be left the "heck" alone, even as a growing number of mostly religion based western charity raced to Liberia and Sierra Leone to help the struggling people of the poverty and war ravaged region cope with another epidemic.
Ukrain, Congress, Isreali-Palestinian crises, made-up Iran Nuclear crises, and Congress again occupied much of the focus of Western leaders. Or must I mention elections...
As the number of dead grows and even after Ebola showed up in Nigeria - Africa's most populated and arguably most mobile nation, the world's response was still mostly that of a tempered panic. The hand writing was on the world, but those with the wherewithal to mobile the kind of international resources and push were either vacationing or busy dithering about how to respond.
And now, the once fringe pandemic has found its way to the west, and policy makers are still concerned about petty issues. Last week, American leaders where busy outdoing themselves on if they should implement Ebola check on passengers from "Affected Nations" or perhaps on none. The problem with all these half-measures is that Ebola is here, and half-measures will not be enough.
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