It's here, and I don't mean the two people the CDC brought back from Africa.

Ebola in Ohio

Ebola in NYC

Your government says there is no cause for alarm.

But airborne spread is "strongly suspected," and local health officials have been ordered to take appropriate precautions.

Officials lie and they lie, and we know they all claim that's the right thing to do, allegedly to prevent panic rather than to hide their own deadly fecklessness.

And then they complain that no one trusts them.

Liberal comment has been interesting, uniformly downplaying the threat and painting the CDC decision to offer a highly experimental vaccine with no successful trials, even in monkeys, as a work of mercy rather than what it appears so strongly to be, a case of researchers exploiting the despair of disease victims to use them as guinea pigs.

These guys see it that way, too, raising the specter of "special treatment," US favoritism toward its own nationals (is the US obliged to provide free medicine to all the world, now?), and even racism.

But this sort of premature human experimentation is usually absolutely forbidden by FDA and CDC policy.

"First, do no harm."

That they are doing it in this case appears to be a measure of the fear in US officialdom.

Hmm.

One of the summer's hit TV shows is The Last Ship.

In Africa, outbreak "could be much worse than thought"

Meanwhile, serious people continue to broadcast the "Don't worry, be happy" message to all America.