As the
second home grown Ebola case surfaces and fears continue to grow
It is high
time for the finger pointing and blame game to once and for all stow
The Blue ads
that falsely on the shoulders of the Reds claim
That Red
cuts to CDC are to the Ebola cases blame
Should be
immediately shut down and never again see the light of day
We need a
calm, rational, nonpartisan for this microbe to control and slay
We may be
light years ahead of Africa in terms of our health system but we are not immune
There appear
to be in this country only four hospitals like Emory with the total containment
rooms
Whatever
protocols the CDC had, if followed in the case of the two nurses in Dallas, did
not work
Or they were
not followed either due to ignorance or too hard or too much time to follow and
in human nature shirked
The attack
on this disease started off way to rocky
Maybe
because the CDC director Frieden was far too cocky
Time to
circle the wagons and subject the protocols to a thorough review
Then
implement the right protocols and make sure they are followed through
This virus
has been identified since 1976 and yet has not yet gone airborne
How many
more mutations before it does and leaves our defenses shorn?
We cannot or
will not control our border but we can control an aircraft ramp
Anyone whose
passport bears a West African stamp
Should we prevent
that person from boarding the plane?
Until the
disease in West Africa starts to wane?
While
procedures for health care workers here are under intense review
What are we
doing to protect our troops for them to the virus eschew
Serious
issues deserve serious thought and oversight
Above all
not another finger pointing partisanship fight
My
grandfather lived through the Spanish Flu of 1919 and the bodies piled up
recalled was not a pretty sight
In Biblical
terms not “a” but hundreds of thieves daily coming to homes in the night
We have had
the warning call, the first shots across our health system bow
Time to stop
the blame, unite and show the world when it comes to unity of purpose we know
how.
© October 15,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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