It is a huge advantage to the United States and its citizens to continue to play a role in assisting those in Western Africa to fight Ebola and develop technology to deal with the disease.
1st world countries have a small set of advantages over African societies due to:
* Better general health and nutrition
* Better hospital care and vital health support in IV fluids, secondary infect anti-biotics, crash carts and vitals monitors
* Better education in germ theory and methods of block contagion ( it seems this is now true only for SOME Americans )
* Better organization of military and police to enforce quarantines when needed
* Better Radio and Telecom to spread word of an outbreak
* Better personal hygiene and fresh water sources
* Cultural practices less likely to spread disease
But we also have areas of our society which leave U.S. MORE vulnerable to Ebola:
* A much more mobile society
* A high population density society ( except for Nigeria )
* A much more Politically Correct Society
This later, are likely to prove far more deadly to 1st world countries, than any advantage by the former.
Our advantages only work if the percentage of our population which is infected stays below a threshold were we can apply things like IV Fluids.
But we WON'T suffer Ebola as a 3rd world country.
We are a 1st world country, which means we are a much, much more mobile society. We will suffer Ebola like a 1st World Country.
That means if Ebola goes over a threshold of number of simultaneous cases, it will exceed our ability to use advanced medicine to deal with the outbreak, and overload our medical system.
The disease will then leverage off of our higher mobility, and we will suffer as a 1st world nation, a much, much higher level of rate of spread, percentage of infected, and mortality rate.
Ebola is, in the long term, if we are not very careful, a much bigger risk to America or any 1st world country, than it is to a third world country!
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We are not living in Isolation, and never will be able to keep Ebola from our country completely.
Staying involved in the battle against Ebola in Africa, gives U.S. the opportunity to develop : Immunizations, Cures, Treatment Protocols, Study methods of transmission...
We Benefit greatly from staying involved, we just need to do it CAREFULLY!
We are NOT doing it Carefully right now, we are doing Politically Correctly!
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