Ebola

I’ve been reading a lot about Ebola the last few days; it make me chuckle at how little the government has done, and what a government need to do during a crisis. Our government has failed many times, but it always pull together in a crisis, except for this time.

The government fails to educate the public about Ebola. Ebola can only transmit through body fluid and only infectious when they show symptoms of the disease; fever, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, internal and external bleeding. The government also fail ease people mind. Ebola is a scary disease once you caught it. Ebola do have the highest fetal rate, but it does not transmit from one human to another as easy as flu or a cold. Unless, you live in development country like countries in Africa, where they Ebola is widespread. In those countries, they don’t have sewage systems or have anything like we do in the US. Dead animals, body fluids and ect. just stay on the street for days until decomposed.

They also fail to treat the volunteer nurses, doctors, and troops that return home after they went to West Africa to provide help and care. The 21- days mandatory quarantine for the nurses, doctors and troops that were call heroes by our President, but once they set foot in the USA they were secluded immediately from the public with no objection. The 21- days mandatory quarantine is a slap to those that volunteer their times and probably risk their life to do what is right. I understand why, but the way our government handling the situation is a little discourage anyone that wants to volunteer over in West Africa.

I feel what the government need to do is educate the people, so that their mind is at ease and safe. Just like any other crisis, to stop or control it we need to go to the source, West Africa. We need to send more experience nurses and doctors to train the nurses and doctors over there on how to take care of those that had caught the disease. 

Travel ban

In the article " Ebola Hot Take of the Day: Travel Bans Would Make Things Worse. Let's Do Them Anyway." by Jason Linkins, is about banning travel between the US and West Africa. There are talk about banning any Ebola- related flight, by banning travel will contain the disease in Africa, where there is an actual outbreak. But by isolating countries that have the outbreak will put more burden on those countries, and increase people fear. Travel ban doesn't help containing the disease nor cures it. Even those that want to impose travel ban like Marc Siegel admitted, "travel ban against the Ebola- afflicted countries will be particularly effective, it may even be counterproductive…..isn't coming from the strongest side of what being an American means." I disagree about travel ban if we are going to ban every flight and isolate us from Africa; we might as well ban everyone from Texas and all the other states that have someone infected with Ebola. No one can go in or out of these states and will probably shut off our country. So instead of educate everyone about Ebola and how to be caution our government talk about travel ban, lets the news use Ebola to increase their rating. We're doing a great job at scaring people and running away.

Don't Panic Be Worry!!

In an article by Alexandra Petri about Ebola found it way into America and that the government and medical experts tell everyone to stay calm, I feel Petri is wanting everyone to drop everything and hide. She doesn’t really have any other information to back up what she is saying and only want to scared people more than what the news is already doing. Ebola is dangerous if you get the viruses, but many scientist are working on a vaccine/ cure for it. We also have two doctor that caught the viruses in Africa and recovered using the newly developed vaccine and therapy. Ebola can only spread through body fluid, blood, secretions or organs, so unless you’re taking care of the Ebola patients there is a very small chance you will get into contact with it. And those patients are isolate from other people, unlike in Africa where there is a big outbreak of Ebola, America have better equipment, hospital including excellent doctors and nurses working around the clock. Not to mention we’re much cleaner than Africa. Areas that have the biggest outbreak in Africa is where they don’t have clean water or any type of sewage system, so dead animals that might have carry the virus just lay there in the open rotten and people walk by barefoot stepping on fluids coming out of the animals. That’s why there are billions of people caught it in Africa, compare to our standard of living and their. More than half of the countries in Africa live in poverty, and now look at America. Getting panic and scared will not do us any good, panicking is not going to keep us from the virus. You can be worry, and be extra careful when you get into contact with any body fluid from a sick person. But other than that most of us is not scientists nor doctors, we can only hope scientists will contain it and find a cure for it. Try not to hide under your bed.