The panic has now started in United
States of the Ebola virus, since the first Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan in
Dallas, Texas on September 19th. Reading this article "Real Ebola crisis's in Africa, not in United States" in The Daily Texan. I learned that the
virus has first been found in central Africa back in the 1970s transmitted from
a wild animal to a human. The author makes the argument that the U.S generally
ignores the problems across sea that we cannot see our self "For all the
talk about globalization, most Americans still think in very local ways".
Our government doing little in response to Ebola because it has always been
such a rare virus. In 2014 with the spread of the virus in West Africa becoming
worse and the deadly virus now effecting the states we have begun to take
action. U.S. customs officials has now started to check West African visitors
for an evidence of the Ebola virus. The author believes that we should not
ignore the crisis in West Africa that we should stop the spared there first
where it came from but we cannot do it by our self "We cannot afford to
ignore the Ebola crisis in West Africa, but we cannot solve the problem alone.
The time has come for us to step forward and lead a large multinational effort
to bring needed health assistance to the region". I defiantly agree with
this statement to stop the spread of it we have to fully get rid of the virus
where it first started and has the most Ebola suffers. Maybe if we did not
ignore the fatal virus in the first place and gave a better helping hand we
would not be experiencing cases in the U.S.
1 comment:
In a post dated October 14 by Mitchell Rico, he talked about a article that was posted in The Texas Daily titled "Real Ebola crisis' in Africa, not in United States. I have to agree with Mitchell's statement as well as the article, that we need to help contain Ebola in Western Africa. The few outbreaks that have occurred in the United States are far fewer than the millions of Africans who have been affected. Like I mentioned in my post Living in fear...Ebola, as long as the citizens of the United States can receive the health care needed in treating this virus, then why worry about those who are dying everyday in Western Africa? SMH. It upsets me to know how insensitive and selfish the people of the United States are. But wait! This should not come as a shock to me, let alone upset me, because I see the behavior in every day life from the way people are less fortunate are being treated here.
To elevate the frantic behavior, and put the citizens at ease, we need to provide as much aid as we can to those in Liberia, and we need to find a way of providing it fast. Mr. Rico is correct in saying " Maybe if we didn't ignore the fatal virus in the first place and gave a better helping hand we would not be experiencing cases in the U.S." Very well said Mr. Rico! I couldn't have said better myself.
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