Ebola hysteria? Perhaps we are not thinking this through!
What if three independent story lines began to converge?
We know that Ebola is very dangerous. The World Health
Organization estimates that the current outbreak infected 10,000 people and
about half of them perished from the illness. Of the five strains of the virus
we know that one of them is extremely dangerous claiming almost 90% of victims
who contract the disease.
We also know that radical Islam would like to disrupt
America. There have been many suicide bombers in the Middle East. Sometimes
that violence spills over into Europe or America. We all remember the day 19
hijackers flew planes into buildings. We know there is no shortage of
volunteers within radical Islam for suicide missions. What if 100 volunteers
were injected with the virus just prior to their departure on commercial
flights?
What if their destination was Mexico? We know that the
crisis at our borders has been uncontained for years when Latin Americans were
fleeing poverty and corruption south of our border. What if those 100 Muslim
terrorists were exposing passengers on trains, busses, and in public places
throughout Mexico? We saw how the United States responded to a few cases of
Ebola. How prepared is Mexico to handle this? From my visits to clinics in
Mexico during the filming of “American Federale” and other relief missions, I
can tell you that Mexico has no possible sufficient response to a widespread
Ebola outbreak. Panic would sweep the streets of Mexico and millions of people
would be headed toward the borders of the United States. Many of those could be
carriers of the disease.
Is America prepared for such an event? Does this sound like
a plot to a Hollywood Movie?
There are many that are criticizing the deployment of troops
to Africa right now. To them I say that our National Security may depend on
stomping out Ebola in Africa. News that two African Nations are Ebola free is
very comforting. There are a few more to go. We should all stand with the U.S.
Military that has deployed to fight this deadly disease. There is no time for
partisan politics. We must all work together to keep this disease from
spreading beyond the African Continent and then we must eradicate it from
Africa. Anything less is inviting disaster.
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