I agree. The money is of secondary importance, what matters is that more hosts are being brought in and, inevitably, more people here will get infected.
Best to cordon off the affected/infected countries and let it burn out. Help them with aid, to be sure, but protect ourselves first.
For all:
Stand back and look at the real picture. So far, every American has survived the disease. In Liberia, it’s one out of ten.
The difference? No wonder drugs in this mix, remember this first and foremost. We do it with fever control, early ID of the disease, IV liquids, and using blood anti-bodies from previous survivors. Toss in some decent first-class care, and liquid foods that stay down. That’s it. Nothing really that fancy....no $16,000 special drug treatment...no wonder drug.
So, the Africans look over this and say it’s unfair. You need to cough up some “fairness”.
So, you ask yourself this logical question....how exactly would you transport daily....maybe five-hundred patients, with very risky transmission...who already are days into the episode with high fever....safely across the Atlantic for fourteen hours....avoiding undue stress which might kill them as well?
To make this work, you would have to deploy upwards to ten thousand US troops into the zone....create at least five hubs for US transport planes to land, then work out agreements that allowed you to have that many military troops there, and allowed these undocumented individuals some type of emergency passport. Cost per month? Figuring one military site for all of this....maybe in New Mexico...around $1 billion a month.
You could hand the $1 billion a month over to the various countries, in the form of medical aid, and break even...but no one wants that deal.