The major factor in this Ebola outbreak in DRC is the civil war, which is making it very difficult to effectively treat patients. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids, which are far easier to contain and isolate in a controlled environment than in a field temporary hospital or simply a family member helping care for someone they think is just sick.
We don't have these problems here in the US at the present time. Say what you will about the US medical system and insurance, etc... but it is still a very good system that can handle a wide variety of cases and isn't hobbled by armed-conflict/civil war.
It's interesting to note how we can have consensus on 2,000 individual cases being called a true crisis, but we still cannot agree ~76,000 monthly border crossing[1] is a true crisis.
Perhaps it's because Ebola is deadly and it's easy to remain ignorant of the humanitarian crisis plaguing many of those 76,000 monthly refugee/asylum seekers... both before and after crossing. Perhaps it's because we all fear catching Ebola from an airport or shopping mall, but none of us fear catching "run-for-your-life-itus", or have to wonder how we'll feed, clothe, and shelter ourselves in a brand new country where we don't speak the dominant language or understand the culture, but we know it's safer than where we came from?
Or perhaps it's simply because it's not a political punching bag issue? ... that's probably the real truth neither "side" wants to admit.
Ebola isn't going to run rampant through the US - we have a great medical system that wouldn't be trying to treat patients in a field in the middle of a war zone. We should lend all the support we can to DRC to help prevent the spread of this terrible virus - not out of fear of it spreading to our home nation, but out of compassion to the people of the DRC.
At the same time, we should really step back from our trenches and objectively examine our own domestic problems - not through the lenses of political ideology, but through the lens of a decent human being.
(ya, this is a throwaway... advocating we stop being political about our own domestic crisis is sure to attract a lot of negativity, unfortunately).
The major factor in this Ebola outbreak in DRC is the civil war, which is making it very difficult to effectively treat patients. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids, which are far easier to contain and isolate in a controlled environment than in a field temporary hospital or simply a family member helping care for someone they think is just sick.
We don't have these problems here in the US at the present time. Say what you will about the US medical system and insurance, etc... but it is still a very good system that can handle a wide variety of cases and isn't hobbled by armed-conflict/civil war.