The Republican hysteria machine is at full throttle on the
Ebola case. Texas Governor Rick Perry
and Congressional candidate are practicing the campaign of “Look over there !” They focus on a campaign to denounce the
White House for not banning flights from West Africa. ( There are few direct flights from West Africa to the U.S.).
the campaign is designed to get readers to look at the flight’s as the fear
issue. That is, to look away from the
Congressional action that cut the CDC budget by almost 50 % last year. This
budget cut produced a CDC that did not
have the funds to adequately train hospital workers and nurses for infectious control
and did not provide infection control equipment. See the statement by the
Nurses here
We should keep some basics in mind. Last year some 32,000 people died in the U.S.
of influenza while some 40% of Americans have not yet received their vaccine
for the flu.
