Good post and important. I remember when the news was first covering this and the CDC narrative teams came out immediately with perception control. The first CDC teleconference showed an agency that was incompetent at best.
The initial narrative was we are the "West" and we have better healthcare. That made me sick. I realized the politicians have risen to the top of every government agency. Perfect ideologues. You cannot work all day as a politician and be competent enough to handle the honesty required with this pandemic.
When Obama was pushing the CDC to take over the gun control as a public health issue (at the same time as the Fast and Furious Operation), I knew the agency was finished.
Now we are told that we are different and better. Yes we are different, but not better. In many ways we are worse off than hospitals made of concrete, block and resin furniture. Those can be decontaminated quickly as well as a bare bones ambulances.
Ebola hates bleach, but loves carpeting, cloth curtains, fabric chairs, vending machines, door handles, triage counters, tables, old magazines and door knobs. Everything according to the CDC that makes western medicine better. Heck, they even claimed we could use a standard private hospital room with level 1 safety to treat our sick because we are better.
Incompetence or Evil? I don't know. I'm sure the CDC understands
Fomites. If that removes incompetence then what are we left with?
Winter and the flu season are not far away. Our hospitals, offices, schools and shopping centers will be filling with people who are symptomatic with the flu virus. The same symptoms as the ebola virus. Add open boarders to the mix and the situation is the perfect incubator for the spread of one of mankind's most insipid viruses.
I had first forgiven the CDC perception control as panic management, but that is obviously the opposite of what is required. The average LIV american has no idea what the word ebola is. I have talked to people. Smart people. There is an admission that they just don't pay attention to the news and don't have any idea what the virus is. Panic control? We need to begin informing people. Why would our government and the CDC in particular want to continue perception management when the average american is not even paying attention?
There will be panic when the first index patients appear in our urban centers. There will be the nonsense that it is under control. There will be the next Ferguson to divert attention. The infections and dead will begin to add up. The media will lie and downplay it while this government will announce that new miracle weapons are imminent to defeat the virus. There will be none because there is no way to stop infection once we go from person to person, to Fomite to person.
What is the endgame? The endgame is many preventable deaths will occur while our institutional power structures struggle to hold on. Anything and everything they will do just to push this further down the road. Human nature. They will try to control an uncontrollable situation. They are all politicians first. Power, pensions, prestige and what other perversion of honesty there is. Those will come first before human life.
End of my rant for now. Thanks for the post.