However, given:
* Øbola's historical mutating proficiency,
* the empirical data that as few as 10 viruses are required to transfer the infection
* the fact that a single drop of blood can contain six billion viruses,
* CDC/FedGov's obfuscation, incompetence, and traitorous inaction to date,
I'm finding it very difficult to believe anything we're being 'told'.
All you say is true.
You see the CDC as being incompetent. I don’t.
My wife works in a hospital and very involved in quality measurements and dealing with the emergency management group (the team that is responsible for dealing with chemical spills, mass casualty drills, quarantines, etc). The stories she tells about trying to coral doctors and nurses into training and planning sessions makes me cringe.
It seems that this week, they are getting their act together.
Remember, as my tag line says, Death is a lagging indicator. The mistakes made two weeks ago are showing up now. Changes made to the processes two weeks ago, would not have prevented these mistakes.
The first victims of this are almost always healthcare workers. This is mostly because when the virus breaks the first responders are not thinking of ebola. Especially here in the US. So, mistakes made those first couple of days are showing up now.
The area where I think the CDC screwed up is not making a BIG deal out of sending help to Texas. They should have had a damned parade of people going there to fix the problem. Not because they would have been able to change anything, but to present the image that the government is coming down on this with a huge hammer—to make sure it doesn’t spread.
Aside from that, I guess the public is seeing the healthcare system for what it is: A huge machine with a lot of parts that do not take their jobs any more or less serious on a daily basis than anyone else.
Having an “in” with the Doctors and Hospitals allows me to know some “inside baseball”, and some of it was surprising.