Good grief!
Panic is rampant speculation that half the world is abut to die. Panic is rampant speculation that Ebola will magically be the first recorded virus to spontaneously go from blood borne to airborne without a single example of it ever happening, much less an example of a virus radically changing and maintaining virulence and lethality. Panic is demanding a lockdown on borders without the first example of it ever stopping any infectious disease.
The best medicine is always the right thng at the right time.
Expecting medical professionals, however good they may be, to catch the first example of something new the first time they look at it is really ridiculous. Expecting medical professionals to believe what their patients tell them instead of their own years of rigorous training to follow a very disciplined procedure is ridiculous.
That training and discipline entails a degree of risk for small problems like we have seen in Dallas, but prevents bigger doses of stupid from doing greater harm by wasting effort and resources. It has worked and worked very, very well so far. That training and discipline is bringing the West African outbreak into control and offering the prospect of serologic combat and vaccine. That progress has come from working with live vaccine, working with infected individuals and doing so outside of the affected region. It is not only their best hope, it is our best hope as well.
Ignorant panic like we have seen here is what is responsible for the dismantling of our health care system to the point where WE are now vulnerable to a much, much greater degree than we have been in perhaps a century. That's remarkable in the extreme when you consider how poorly trained our physicians and health care professional were then compared to now.
The right thing at the right time. Wasting effort and resources accepting less than that is so unbelievably short sighted as to boggle the mind. The right thing to do now, is obviously to put as much as we can into extinguishing this fire as quickly as possible. Wasting resources on feel good solutions is a direct harm.
Ignorant people who don't believe in vaccination have no place in this discussion and should be stood up for who/what they are every time they open their yap.
