This is obviously a purely political move to address criticism, which the OP proves is useless anyway.
And shouldn’t there first be a cancer czar and a heart disease czar? You know, the stuff that’s already killing millions of Americans?
Cancer and heart disease? Those are American diseases! Diseases are fine as long as they’re not those damn foreigners.
Those are not new problems. Or viruses.
Don’t forget the car czar and the swimming pool czar.
Exactly. Your average overweight smoker knows they are at elevated risk of heart disease and cancer. If he wakes up one day and wants to reduce that risk, easy-peasy: quit the smokes and drop the weight.
Beyond “Wash your hands” I’m not sure just what I can do to not contract this bad boy. Or worse, should it get into my home, what do we do to protect the others of us that aren’t sick? How do we sanitze the house? The cars? Clothes? I have some ideas, but I am absolutely uncertain they are correct or adequate. And how do I know it’s ebola and not just flu or a nasty cold which I’m perfectly content to deal with at home. More info would be nice.
We don’t need a czar for that. We have google. We might need a czar to coordinate the governmental response, which could include a bunch of different stuff in the U.S. and Western Africa and involve different federal agencies and make sure everybody’s doing things properly.
The best way not to get Ebola is to not travel to West African countries that have Ebola outbreaks, and don’t be a health care worker who cares for patients with Ebola.
If you don’t do either of those things then you’re good.
Why not at the very least make it a more general “contagious diseases” specialist? Even if Ebola is a problem now, it’s not going to be forever. And all the things people are suggesting to deal with this are just general problems with how we’ve handled things.
Because this is a new problem and the flu isn’t, and because the symptoms of Ebola are much more severe and debilitating than the flu, which means you don’t need to take radical steps like isolating flu patients?
I believe that by the right wing media’s count, Obama has had like fifteen Katrinas, six Watergates, two or three Teapot Domes, and a Panic of 1837.
A valid point as well.
BigT and Marley – Ebola isn’t that new; it’s been around since 1976 (the Swine Flu year, IIRC). So we know some about it.
I know the virus isn’t new. It’s new to the U.S.
I’m just waiting for “antibacterial” cleaning products advertise that they destroy the virus that causes Ebola.
Is this serious?
Serious and true.
The only comment I can make in this forum is: :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
As President, Obama can’t devote his full time to dealing with this problem. He’s got too many other things he also needs to do. But he can devote someone else’s full time to deal with it.
I am serious, even though you didn’t call me Shirley.
What are the parts that you don’t think are serious?
As of October 17, 2014 there have been only three cases of Ebola in the United States. One of those people had just traveled from West Africa where he had helped care for a person sick with Ebola, and the other two were nurses who helped care for the first person.
And this comports with how Ebola is spread in West Africa–the people who get sick are people who care for people who are sick with Ebola. Casual transmission of the virus doesn’t seem to be a serious risk, the people who are at serious risk are the people dealing with someone who is bleeding, sweating, pissing and shitting all over themselves due to the virus.
Do you not have access to…anything? Ebola has been on the news 24/7. By now I can draw the floor plan of an Ebola treatment center, demonstrate how to remove PPE, dilute bleach to the right concentration, name the major transit hubs out of West Africa, describe Liberian funeral customs…what I am saying is access to information about Ebola isn’t actually a problem for anyone in the US.