Quote Originally Posted by Hirlau View Post
What bothers me the most was the interview Tuesday with Dr. Thomas Frieden, the head of CDC. He had no good answers & expressed concern how flight restrictions might effect the economy of the nations that are ground zero for this problem. He should only be concerned about fighting the virus itsself, not the politics invovled.

I don't think that Mr. Ebola gives a damn whether you are Democrat, Republican, Liberian, American, English or a pygmy from New Guinea. This Ebola problem just demonstrated how little we (Humans) control mother nature. I keep hearing the "experts" brag about our (American) medical system being such a high level about the systems in the ground zero countries,, Really ????. Didn't Dallas have to ship a patient out to another hostpital? ,,, and there are less than 3 cases there,,,,,, if we had only a hundred active cases, it appears we have no facilities to treat them all.

This can be blamed on administrations that go back decades. The papers like to note that the Flu kills 30,000 a year in America, so what's the big scare,,, Really???? Unless your one of the 30,000, I guess its not a problem.
I saw that interview - I was a little shocked when he expressed fighting the virus vs the GDP! It wasn't something I expected but quickly found his statement refreshing because when it all comes down to it, your life, my life, all of our lives have a dollar figures assigned to it.

Back in the day (not sure if they still do this now with Obama care or if it even matters anymore), all you would have to do was look at your health insurance policy to see where your lifetime cap was -> that was the sum value of your life as dictated by some jackass in a cubicle someplace.

Obama care or not - your value is still weighed in terms of economic loss.

Life is not priceless to those tasked to saving it - its harsh, but its true. It was nice for the dude to actually point that out.