My opinion of President Barack Obamas speech today. 1:40: If we were such a leader in the world of medical science we surely wouldnt be taking the cue from countries such as Canada where there is socialized medical care but the level of that care has fallen behind and to the wayside. 1:50 If the chances of America as a whole getting ebola to spread over here were as small as you think they are you surely wouldnt have just put in an order for 160,000 hazmat suits, now would you? The 3,000 individuals that have been sent out to help with the current epidemic certainly dont need 53 hazmat suits each. 2:03 Weve been working with countries in West Africa to increase screening in airports Do you mean screening the airports like we presently have the TSA doing for us? If so we are royally screwed. Just a couple days ago they let an individual that had failed numerous of their safeguards and didnt chat with him until the plane had finally touched down. If he was indeed a terrorist hell-bent on spreading mayhem and panic, we wouldve been dealing with another hijacked airplane by the time they finally approached him.(Kahler Nygard) 2:20 Do you mean in the likely event that someone with Ebola manages to get onboard a plane bound for the US? And judging from how youve stated that you have trained flight crews to recognize anyone that is sick, if you board a plane with the flu they are going to approach you and usher you off. 2:35 Were working with hospitals to make sure they are prepared... You certainly mean only a select few hospitals around the country in areas that are deemed high-risk, right? In order to ensure that EVERY hospital is adequately prepared for such an event, a massive sum of time and money would have to be spent preparing each hospital. I certainly dont see you managing to cough up such a substantial amount of cash, or were you just planning on printing the money? 2:53 OK, Emery is well prepared to deal with such an epidemic, but are the rest of the hospitals in your nation prepared? 4:53 Despite the fact that Barack Obama began his speech stating that we here in the United States have nothing to fear from the current Ebola epidemic, he goes on to state that if Ebola continues to spread it will become a global problem. Remind me again how the United States is not endangered by global problems? We are on the same Earth last time I checked. 5:34 The last time I checked Africa was not a shining example of how to conduct countries or business. Whenever we drop a care supply off in Africa it is quickly captured by warlords. The law of the land is that there is no law. If all that we have to wait for in order to have Ebola become a global wide epidemic is the failure of West Africas infrastructure and government, I would go so far as to say that we are already screwed. 5:47 If this was indeed, as you state, not a problem for the United States there would be no need to make it a National Security priority.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:23:15 +0000