UN needs a billion to fight Ebola
No, it certainly doesn't all have to come from the US, and plenty of other people who will whine endlessly if this continues out of hand for long need to pony up, right now.
"Exponential contagion" is well on its way to nudging "existential threat" off the short list of cliches the media use as substitutes for both information and thought.
Obama Presses Leaders to Speed Ebola Response
Far from exaggerating, he and most others continue to understate the risks and the extent of the ravages that are already inevitable.
The piece says,
Even as the president announced a major American deployment to Liberia and Senegal of medicine, equipment and 3,000 military personnel, global health officials said that time was running out and that they had weeks, not months, to act.
What do you suppose they meant by that last bit?
If it didn't scare you, it should have.
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank and an expert in infectious diseases, said in a telephone interview hours after the bank’s board unanimously approved a $105 million grant as part of its previously announced assistance to the most affected of the countries.
I'm guessing the son of a bitch makes that much a year, all by himself.
Even the people who sound sort of like they get it are not getting it.
In Washington, New York and Geneva, health experts expressed astonishment and alarm at the virus’s rapid spread.
“The pace of the disease and also its impact have taken our breath away — it’s been that massive,” said Shanelle Hall, director of the supply division at Unicef[.]
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On Capitol Hill, Dr. Beth P. Bell, the director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the C.D.C., told a Senate hearing that although Ebola did not currently pose a significant public health threat to the United States, “there is a window of opportunity to control the spread of this disease, but that window is closing.”
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