EBOLA IN AMERICA --- POSSIBLY


EBOLA PARK -- A provocative comparison of Ebola to "Jurassic Park" and the chaos of man's arrogance regarding nature. By Dr. Robert Warren, PhD

The policies of the federal government have brought Ebola to the United States. This is astounding, and it brings to mind “Jurassic Park” - the movie that showed us the rebirth of the dinosaurs, but also showed us the chaos that resulted from man’s arrogance regarding nature.

Uncontrolled diseases of all kinds are now everywhere in the United States. Some are new to us - although well known in the tropics. Others are the re-emergence of long vanquished one. Each of these diseases, like the various types of dinosaurs, has unique capabilities. Some create respiratory problems in children, others severe joint pain, and some long-term potentially deadly health problems. The Tyrannosaurus Rex of the bunch is Ebola. It is a rapid and deadly killer.

There are a number of entry points for these diseases. The southern border is wide open and there is little to no effective screening of the men, women and children streaming across it. As we now know, air transport from Western Africa has brought Ebola to Texas. The Obama administration has sent thousands of troops into the contagion, and many experts have said that this will lead to military personnel bringing the Ebola contagion back to the country via personnel rotations or emergencies.

Ellis Island, the now closed gateway for millions of immigrants, existed for a number of reasons - one of which was to segregate arriving immigrants from the general American population and check them for diseases before allowing them into New York. Essentially, the long recognized process of quarantining and isolating the sick from the healthy was applied as standard medical practice. It would work now if it were actually used in the current contagion situation.

Ebola, or some other contagious and generally fatal disease, might just make Jurassic Park look like child’s play. Let’s hope that the incredible decisions of the Obama administration don’t play out as a chaotic Ebola epidemic on America’s shores. Hope, however, is not going to cure it if it does.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

AMERICAN AIRLINES -- MORE ABOUT UNIONS AND CH 11

I apologize for the structure of the post below, with no segmentation, but the system refuses to do it my way. To my post yesterday re AMR's chapter 11 filing relating my experiences over many years flying with AA, an AA pilot wrote a thoughtful comment that caused me to think a bit more about the precursors to conditions of their bankruptcy. Frankly, I have what is perhaps too much experience with trade unions and their excesses, but know less about others such as the airlines. After learning more about the negotiations of AA with their unions, I now think it's justifiable to post the comments below. I've seen too many industries destroyed by union excesses coupled with management incompetence in caving to excess demands. Start with coal (dead for many years), steel, textiles, shoes, electronics manufacturing, and more.  The Detroit 3 (once the big 3) deserves special mention. As their costs rose to $72/hour (fully loaded) and costs in the southern industry w...
Read more

LEFTIST MIND-SET OF TODAY -- REFLEXIVE, THOUGHTLESS SUPPORT FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

"Trying to persuade a prejudiced mind is as Sisyphean as trying to open a closed mind is Quixotic." Mann, May 2012 In a blog post herein below on May 1, 2013, I outlined what we who manage people and enterprises know as absolutes about performances of people who are put into management and supervisory positions for which they haven't requisite qualifications. For those who have progressed through several jobs to their level of incompetence, this is known as the Peter Principle as defined by Laurence J. Peter. In all likelihood, all who have managed people for any length of time have seen this principle played out. While Peter's observation applies to progression through multiple job levels, if a person is put into any job for which he is unqualified, the concept is also valid. Elective political positions is where I see this most often played out. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is the most significant example of this in my lif...
Read more

ETHANOL -- The worst mandate ever gets even worse

When politicians get control of science and the inept or dishonest scientists, nothing good comes of it. There are many examples -- global warming (aka climate change) is the most prominent. The ethanol mandate, although a part of the climate change mania, stands on its own as arguably the most ridiculous mandate of all time. President Jimmy Carter, who was influenced by a misguided college professor, can be charged with the mistake of promulgating the ethanol mandate.  Of course, Al Gore is the politician who played the global warming issue like a drum and has benefited financially from it. Use of ethanol in motor fuel is not a net positive either in costs or in impact on the environment.... enormous hype to the contrary notwithstanding. Ethanol does not have the positive effect on the environment as touted. It has only about 60% of the specific energy of petroleum fuel, which begs use of more fuel to achieve the same energy as petroleum fuel. And, so it does. I have my own exp...
Read more