I am with the AIDS activists.
I am with the AIDS activists. The rhetoric around Ebola is sounding more and more like the rhetoric from the 80's about HIV and AIDS. And it needs to stop before even more serious damage is done.
What possible reason could Canada and Australia have for their travel bans, other than panic? Further, if some of the major countries that could send health professionals to provide infrastructure that simply isn't in the stricken countries suddenly can't send them, how do they think we are going to get this under control? Are we all just going to watch and hope enough people die fast enough to burn out the disease? This sets a dangerous precedent with all the people advocating for the same crazy restrictions in the US and other major countries.
It's also a really crummy attitude toward other human beings. What's next, flagellants in the streets and killing all the blacks and jews a la medieval Europe? Because that's what this kind of behavior sounds like to me. Only we know what's happening here and we can do something about it.
#soapbox
What possible reason could Canada and Australia have for their travel bans, other than panic? Further, if some of the major countries that could send health professionals to provide infrastructure that simply isn't in the stricken countries suddenly can't send them, how do they think we are going to get this under control? Are we all just going to watch and hope enough people die fast enough to burn out the disease? This sets a dangerous precedent with all the people advocating for the same crazy restrictions in the US and other major countries.
It's also a really crummy attitude toward other human beings. What's next, flagellants in the streets and killing all the blacks and jews a la medieval Europe? Because that's what this kind of behavior sounds like to me. Only we know what's happening here and we can do something about it.
#soapbox
Australia isn't panicking.
ReplyDeleteOur right wing government is using Ebola as an excuse to further crack down on any non white immigration, while pretending to be taking necessary precautions.
This is the same government that turned (non white) asylum seeker arrivals into an election winning issue, and created offshore concentration camps to persuade them to stay in (or go back to) their county to be tortured / raped / killed rather than come to Australia...
Ah. so we've skipped right to the who wants to volunteer for flagellation. Excellent. After we watch them die. This is not going to deter those of similar ilk in this country. I want to make a non ironic sad face, now.
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