Ebola Season

We’re into the summer heat, and every year the world stands back and watches as a well meaning band of medical doctors from all over the planet risk their lives to rescue Ebola  victims in African countries.  But this year it’s different.  The death toll among health care workers is so devastating that they have had to pull out.

SUDDENLY, the whole world is paying attention, and now the funding and support so badly needed by the dying doctors is on it’s way in spades.  The World Health Organization has rushed to declare an “International Health Emergency”.  Too late.  The doctors are gone.

But this story gets worse.  In the midst of a declared “Emergency” nobody thought to curtail air traffic in and out of the affected regions.  In fact, sick patients have been flown to several countries in recent days, and I fully expect that samples of the virus are in transit to bio-labs all over the world as I write.  They are often delivered past your door, by Fed Ex.

Incompetence reigns.  Welcome to the tribal world.