Some ASSHOLE Ok, I'm mad named "Terrence" "McCoy" writes today in the Washington Post:
It’s an unprecedented situation, to be sure, and it’s in the very early stages. But people rely on agencies to be prepared for the unknown. When they’re not, it sometimes leads to the perception that government is failing, which can be especially damaging to agencies such as the CDC that depend on an aura of confident expertise to keep a jittery public calm. Why weren’t they prepared? the thinking goes. Why didn’t they know? But here, as in other cases, officials said it has been difficult to prepare for something that wasn’t imagined.
Crap, crap, crap.
1. The Ebola crisis is not "unprecedented," it has been going on in west Africa this entire year. CDC had nine months to study the disease and prepare for its appearance in the United States. They FAILED.
2. AIDS was unprecedented. It had never been seen before. Doctors with gay clienteles began comparing notes, they first dubbed it "Gay Bowel Syndrome," then victims were part of some ghastly "4H Club" of Homosexuals, Heroin users, hemophiliacs, Haitians. Doctors didn't know wtf and were struggling to find some common denominator.
By contrast, this is the same Ebola virus that first appeared, along the Ebola River, in 1976! The same year that AIDS got its start in the U.S. Doctors knew what this was when it reappeared in December, 2013.
It would be as if someone today, in 2014, walked into a hospital with Kaposi's sarcoma and doctors and nurses said "This is unprecedented."
3. "Why weren't they prepared?" In the same article McCoy mentions Hurricane Katrina. Precisely. Louisiana and New Orleans were unprepared in 2005 despite New Orleans vulnerability, despite weather forecasts and hurricane tracking.
By contrast, "Texas was ready" as the storm passed on and the death toll in the two states was something like 779-0. Louisiana and New Orleans weren't ready because of its boob governor and boob mayor.
4. "Perception that government is failing." No. No, not the perception, the reality. Government failed in Louisiana and New Orleans in 2005, it failed in Atlanta during "unprecedented," meteorologist-forecasted ice storms in 2012 and 2013, it has failed at the Secret Service repeatedly since 2009, it failed at CDC.
5. "It has been difficult to prepare for something that wasn't imagined." Yeah. Just look at Ray Nagin, Kathleen Blanco, Kasim Reed, Nathan Deal, Julia Pierson.
America doesn't work.
It’s an unprecedented situation, to be sure, and it’s in the very early stages. But people rely on agencies to be prepared for the unknown. When they’re not, it sometimes leads to the perception that government is failing, which can be especially damaging to agencies such as the CDC that depend on an aura of confident expertise to keep a jittery public calm. Why weren’t they prepared? the thinking goes. Why didn’t they know? But here, as in other cases, officials said it has been difficult to prepare for something that wasn’t imagined.
Crap, crap, crap.
1. The Ebola crisis is not "unprecedented," it has been going on in west Africa this entire year. CDC had nine months to study the disease and prepare for its appearance in the United States. They FAILED.
2. AIDS was unprecedented. It had never been seen before. Doctors with gay clienteles began comparing notes, they first dubbed it "Gay Bowel Syndrome," then victims were part of some ghastly "4H Club" of Homosexuals, Heroin users, hemophiliacs, Haitians. Doctors didn't know wtf and were struggling to find some common denominator.
By contrast, this is the same Ebola virus that first appeared, along the Ebola River, in 1976! The same year that AIDS got its start in the U.S. Doctors knew what this was when it reappeared in December, 2013.
It would be as if someone today, in 2014, walked into a hospital with Kaposi's sarcoma and doctors and nurses said "This is unprecedented."
3. "Why weren't they prepared?" In the same article McCoy mentions Hurricane Katrina. Precisely. Louisiana and New Orleans were unprepared in 2005 despite New Orleans vulnerability, despite weather forecasts and hurricane tracking.
By contrast, "Texas was ready" as the storm passed on and the death toll in the two states was something like 779-0. Louisiana and New Orleans weren't ready because of its boob governor and boob mayor.
4. "Perception that government is failing." No. No, not the perception, the reality. Government failed in Louisiana and New Orleans in 2005, it failed in Atlanta during "unprecedented," meteorologist-forecasted ice storms in 2012 and 2013, it has failed at the Secret Service repeatedly since 2009, it failed at CDC.
5. "It has been difficult to prepare for something that wasn't imagined." Yeah. Just look at Ray Nagin, Kathleen Blanco, Kasim Reed, Nathan Deal, Julia Pierson.
America doesn't work.
