[Mariner]

"I hope and pray we don’t see secondary and tertiary cases in a few days in Dallas. But if we do, at some point the game of “Lets Pretend” has to stop. Liberia seems to be unable to do it, Nigeria did. I fear we are more like Liberia."

IF a couple of active clusters emerge in Dallas and Hawaii...maybe somewhere else...the politics of 7x24 News will kick in.

It'll be DO SOMETHING NOW as a survival imperative for every politician, especially a few weeks out from a national election.

I have no doubt even Obama will be forced to quarantine all travelers from West Africa for 21 days...and eventually all international travelers.

But it's too late.

Ebola is in the wild in Dallas and I have no doubt there are 10's of scavenger animals infected...and in another 2-3 weeks probably hundreds.

[redgolum]

It will only change if the powers that be feel themselves to be threatened. Texas is not real to them, they look down on it. Hawaii is, but it more of a vacation spot.

See one case in a nice area of New York or DC, and they will act quickly.

Still, I do not know of their worldview permits them to act swiftly. Viruses are not PC, yet their worldview is so entrenched they have few tools to handle it.