Grace and Ebola

[boris1gary]

https://newmatilda.com/2014/10/10/one-women-photo-has-grace-and-one-them-just-named-grace

One Of The Women In This Photo Has Grace, And One Of Them Is Just Named Grace

Columnist for The Australian Grace Collier worries some of us are going to get Ebola and die. Chris Graham doesn't want to get his hopes up.

If you’re a leftie, then the tweet I’m about to share with you is going to do your head in. It’s one of those opinions that, if you value humanity, compassion, courage, selfless sacrfice blah blah blah, is almost impossible to understand.

Late yesterday, uber-conservative columnist for The Australian, Grace Collier, decided to share her thoughts on Ebola with the world.

“Why do Australians go overseas, expose themselves to a hideous disease, then come back and risk infecting the rest of us? #Ebola”.

[boris1gary]

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@goldenjet16 wrote:
"the US isn't the govt of the world although it does sometimes seem as if they think they are."

Good point..... The way we give away our money you would think everyone is part of the U.S.

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hahahaha good one, if only they were so "kind to their own people" - 

45 Million Americans Still Stuck Below Poverty Line: Census

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/poverty-household-income_n_5828974.html

New Health Rankings: Of 17 Nations, U.S. Is Dead Last

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/new-health-rankings-of-17-nations-us-is-dead-last/...

IMF calls on US to raise minimum wage

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/08/29/376992/imf-calls-on-us-to-raise-the-minimum-wage/

[goldenjet16]

Yeah.... And the other 275 million are doing just fine. Here this is how it works.

The wealthy
The middle class
The poor.

....and in my experience ask any immigrant how he likes being in the U.S and he'll say it's the greatest country in the world! Again thats just from my experience

[boris1gary]

....and in my experience ask any immigrant how he likes being in the U.S and he'll say it's the greatest country in the world! Again thats just from my experience

well half their luck that they have lived in every country on earth to make such a claim.

[polksaladallie]

Well, goddamn! 

Abbott's feeble reason for preventing Australia from helping in West Africa has evaporated.

I expect an announcement today. 

http://time.com/3544762/samantha-power-ebola-clinic-healthcare-workers-liberia/

American-built clinic in Liberia being used to treat Ebola-infected healthcare workers.

I believe that Britain has a new treatment centre also in West Africa, and Britain has offered weeks ago for Australian workers to be flown to London to their specially designed centre.

[boris1gary]

yes their feeble excuses have worn out

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/31/ebola-opening-us-field-hospital-liberia-pressure-austra...

Ebola: opening of US field hospital in Liberia puts pressure on Australia to respond

Australian government has declined to send health workers to help tackle outbreak, citing inability to treat them if they contract the virus

With a US-managed field hospital days away from opening in Liberia, pressure is mounting on the Australian government to send health staff to the region to tackle the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 5,000 people.

The 25-bed centre will treat international health workers who contract the virus and train them in how to manage it.

So far the government has refused to provide funding to send health workers to the region, citing concerns about evacuating and treating them should they be infected.

The shadow foreign affairs minister, Tanya Plibersek, who has been meeting officials in the US to discuss the global Ebola response, told the ABC on Friday morning the US field hospital would open within days and would provide treatment of a “first-world standard”.

“It was made clear to me that the facility would be made available for health workers, not just Australian, but health workers of any nationality who are in west Africa fighting ebola,” Plibersek said.

“Every meeting I’ve had here, whether it’s been with the World Bank, the United Nations, people within the White House or state department, it has been made clear to me that there is a strong view the the US, UK and to a degree, France, are bearing most of the responsibility for fighting this outbreak.

“There is a disappointment that countries such as Australia are willing to sign up to UN resolutions calling for people to do more by sending equipment and resources and so on, but then not willing to follow through.”

The president of the Australian Medical Association, Brian Owler, who has been urging the government to escalate its response for weeks, told Guardian Australia on Friday the government now had no excuse not to send health workers to west Africa.

“The excuse that we can’t adequately treat Australian workers doesn’t wash any more,” he said.

“It’s actually better to treat someone in-country rather than transporting them 30 hours to get home, which is logistically difficult.

“Now we know there are treatment centres being built we should send people because many health workers are ready and willing to go.”