Sorry to bring the worst into your newsfeed today (praying that fb doesnt bury this), but we each have a right to demand that our governments face up to the threat of the Ebola epidemic and take immediate steps to mitigate the suffering and curtail the spread. Right now all of the first world nations are failing miserably--failing at such a level we could presume they want an epidemic that is uncontrolled and kills millions (if not more). I had to educate my partner about this because he will be flying this weekend. He (and each of us) is on his own. No one is stepping up to do the best we can in the face of this heinous, insufferable, climate-change driven death-virus. AMY GOODMAN: Isn’t this a crisis of public health, both in the United States, funding, as well as at the level of the World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization? LAURIE GARRETT: This is a screaming cry that—we couldn’t ask for a louder one—that says globalization is not working, we don’t have any system of global governance, and we don’t have anything called global health to speak of when it comes down to actually getting things done. And we already knew this, because in 2009 we had the H1N1 swine flu scare. And that globalized in a matter of weeks. Every country in the world was affected. And what we saw was a complete breakdown in global solidarity around that, because the meager supplies that were available and the vaccine that took more than six months to get online only went to the rich countries, and the poor countries, the middle-income countries were all left going, Oh, what about us? And it gave a clear indication this is what we will do in an epidemic: We’ll take care of the rich, and the rest of you, eh, maybe there’s some aspirin. Well, these folks in Liberia aren’t even getting the aspirin.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:55:49 +0000
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