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Now that we’re dealing with a public crisis that can’t be adequately dealt with by locking oneself inside a gated community, maybe we can finally get our collective priorities in order-- like treating health care as a human right, dumping ObamaCare and the entire for-profit system in favor of a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system for all. Or should we continue sending uninsured people like Thomas Eric Duncan away from hospitals and putting them back on the street, like Dallas' Presbyterian Hospital did on September 24th?
We should be sorry that our government has prioritized wars against people that are no danger to us over domestic line items in the federal budget like medical research and public health. Yes, public health is a political issue because incompetence has made it one. Both parties again have failed us.
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Sadly, a prevailing bigotry against Africans in the United States is about to get worse. Our enduring ignorance of that continent is about to sink its teeth viciously into our ass.The countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have not been able to deal with the Ebola crisis, but it’s worth noting-- to those that would have us ban travel to and from the continent altogether-- that two other West African countries, Nigeria (the continent's most populous) and Senegal, will be Ebola-free before the United States is. South Africa, interestingly, is as far away from Liberia geographically as Chicago is from the North Pole.
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When the dirty Europeans immigrated to the continent, they brought enough disease with them to cause a genocide. They may have even given disease-infected blankets to the indigenous peoples of the continent on purpose. I wonder if any of the natives referred to George Washington as President Smallpox.
posted by CM @ 8:18 PM
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