Repost: Ebola: Does It Matter?

FR ^ | 9/16/14 | Joe Alton, M.D., aka Dr. Bones

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Despite the best efforts of the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders, Ebola is expected to rage on in West Africa for another 12-18 months, with 20,000 cases predicted. Without coordination of relief efforts, the ability to contain the disease is limited and has been labeled a “failure” to date. Countries are sending supplies and equipment in piecemeal fashion. The U.S., for example, is setting up a 25 bed hospital for its part. Unfortunately, it’s far too little to make a dent in the epidemic.

It’s difficult for a person in a developed country to believe that medical systems, economies, even governments, might fail as a result of a virus. The average U.S. citizen suffers from what we call “Normalcy Bias”. This is the tendency to be believe that, since things have been just fine, everything will always remain so. This is foolhardy thinking at best, and dangerous thinking at worst. One wonders what the effect of normalcy bias was in 1918 when the Spanish Flu hit America.

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....”he waited 24 hours in the emergency waiting area before finally being admitted the second time”...??????

I wonder if that’s a stretch...was he waiting in a ER waiting room all that time...or was he taken to a room area? It’s not uncommon to have to wait even once you’re in an examination room.

There are far too many “unknown’s” about this case....and the media hype now isn’t helping IMO. They admit they do not have the facts yet. Often using words “appears’ and “could”.

Additionally every DR. speaking with pundits is an “expert” at something “other than infecteous diseases”.....an example...there’s now a expert in “Radiology” speaking on Fox.

We simply have to wait and see if any others come down with this who had contact with the man...and if or not it’ll be reported if so.

I tend to think the man IS Liberian....the Representatives in Texas ‘for the Liberian community’ are making announcements and statements frequently now to their people regarding this man.