I know what Im about to say is a very controversial topic..... Thoughts on Ebola: The posts I see on my news feed about this are getting out of control. Not only the quantity of the posts, but the quality of them. Im getting fed up with them quite honestly, but I understand them. Its fear. Complete and utter fear amongst the American society. What I am seeing more and more of is the fear is simply driving people to get hysterical & say things like Im never leaving my house! The fear is driving our society to immediately think about ourselves, our families, our country, our well being. Take a second with me and journey to West Africa. Try to simply imagine watching thousands of people die around you. I can guarantee you they are just as petrified of this virus as we are...but get this....they dont have the hope that we do..did you catch that? They dont have the hope that we do! While we are fearful of contracting it we can be confident that we live in a country with resources to help one with this if they are to contract it..they do not. How helpless they must feel. What if our fear of this virus lead us to sending money to help them or for research and more resources for them in order to give them the same hope we have if contracting this virus rather than let our fear consume us and lead us to our most selfish way of thinking. Let us try to put our feet in their shoes. Oh how helpless they must feel.... Can we let our fear of this drive us in a different way than it currently is?
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:44:22 +0000