It's been a long time - Ebola woes

So yes, it's been quite some time. I wanted to mention how things are being progressively blown out of proportion for Ebola. There are several reasons why Northern America will survive this thing, especially being that the problem in Liberia etc. is that they just do not have the capabilities to treat infectious diseases like we do.


This case exemplifies why they have the issues they do - a family whose father is severely ill, sent to a local hospital, and in the course of the night he dies. The hospital is unable to tell them whether the patient died from ebola or not, because they don't know where the test results are.

This is typical of a developing-country healthcare system.

The issue that occurred in Dallas was essentially that administrators, being part of a for-profit system, do not take proactive measures unless there are dollars in jeopardy. This is not the case until people start either dying or suing.

We should therefore expect in the coming weeks that someone high up in the hospital or government will get fired.

We should also expect there to be a few more cases (one if we're lucky) around 25 OCT- 05 NOV 2014 (Halloween!) due to new infections and/or new influx from western Africa.

Hopefully this will all blow over soon.