Soap Box

In spite of all the other very serious and catastrophic things that are happening in the world, I believe the one issue that is first and foremost in most everybody's mind is the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa.

The questions are many and the answers forthcoming are not adequate and in depth enough to sooth the very real worries Americans have about protecting themselves and their families, and the degree of competence shown by the federal agencies tasked with protecting the public have been somewhat less than confidence inspiring.

The level of contagion with Ebola has been brought home to us by the recent events surrounding the infection of the medical personnel who treated Thomas Duncan who died from Ebola in a Dallas hospital recently, and has raised more questions than answers about either the ability or the know how of the Feds to deal with the situation,

One nurse who was running a slight fever got on an airplane and flew back to Dallas where she was immediately hospitalized and quarantined.

She said she was told by the CDC that it would be all right to get on an airplane and fly back to Dallas potentially exposing a plane load of passengers and everybody else she came in contact with to the sickness.

Another one of the nurses who attended Duncan got on a cruise ship.

Duncan himself went to the same hospital where he died a few days before with a fever and other symptoms and even informing the medical staff he had traveled to Liberia, only to be sent home, returning later and being diagnosed with Ebola.

It makes us wonder who, if anybody, is really in charge, who is setting and implementing the policies that are supposed to stop Ebola from coming here and dealing with the cases that have already come here.

Our president tells us that we have nothing to worry about by allowing passengers from the effected nations to arrive here every day when Thomas Duncan slipped through the cracks arriving on an airplane and assimilating into society without anybody discovering that he was carrying the disease.

How, in the name of good sense can America allow the free flow of passengers from nations ravaged with Ebola to enter America with nothing more the taking of their temperature, when the 
The incubation period is twenty-one days and they could walk around this country for three weeks like a ticking time bomb. Thankfully, the family of Thomas Duncan has reached the end of the twenty-one day window with no signs of infection.

When you look at one Ebola affected person and consider the exponential contagion factor where one person can literally start a pandemic, it becomes evident very quickly that we are dealing with something that could overwhelm our health care systems almost overnight, cripple the transportation systems, slow commerce to a crawl and bring a faltering economy to it's knees.

I have no medical expertise and only a layman�s knowledge of these very serious matters, but looking at the situation with nothing more than common sense, this has got to be one of those, cut to the chase, no stone left unturned and no chances taken type of situations when stringent measures need to be employed and enforced.

One of those rare times when overkill would actually be good, when a piecemeal approach to any of the problems surrounding the spread of Ebola could be deadly.

It would seem to me that an Ebola Czar who has a medical background would have made a better appointee than a political operative, but if he gets the job done, so be it.

When you talk about putting an airtight clamp on the border with Mexico, the Latino activists are quick to tell you that there has not been one reported case in Mexico.

Well that was the case in the US Just a few weeks ago and planes fly to Mexico every day
which could change the situation overnight and the people who cross the border have no screening at all.

Shutting off the passport holders from the countries where the epidemic is would be a fairly simple thing. It�s not something anybody wants to do, but just another safety measure at our disposal.

Pour global resources into the West African nations where the epidemic is raging, medical personnel, drugs, and equipment in an all out effort to contain Ebola in those countries, to build a fence around it so to speak.

I know it would take a massive effort on a global scale but anything less is not going to stem this tide.

Time to get on it.

What do you think? 

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels​