Prediction. Our institutional defenses against epidemics assume 1950s-style civic support. Those days are gone. Even so, it’ll work for a while, not perfectly, but well enough. For a while. Ebola will go exponential when it gets into our Haiti-like urban areas and separatist enclaves. Necessary but inconvenient countermeasures will be widely evaded, denounced as genocide in disguise. Those who demand drastic action in defense of the nation will be slandered as paleo-rednecks.
From then on events will be decided by doddering civil rights agitators, the gullible morons who support them and lunatic opportunists in DC. Naturally those who are actually stricken will demand priority on a “Poor, Minorities Hit Hardest” basis. The irony will go unnoticed. Worthwhile results will be either accidental or unavoidable. Ebola will burn its way through the populace all but unimpeded, and when the last victim collapses in a mushy pile of its own bloody excretions, victory will be declared. Heroes will be acclaimed and every faction in the country will have made new, enduring enemies. This is easy. It’s like predicting the past. But, details. We want details.
Our farce thus far. How competent are our medical institutions with their world-class facilities and internationally renown experts, the same experts who tell us our fears are unfounded? Apparently word hadn’t gotten to them that people coming from Ebola-infested pest holes in Africa may have Ebola, duh, including one who exhibited advanced symptoms and offered himself up:
h/t WRSA
