I’ve sat and talked with people and I’ve listened to the comments made regarding the Ebola outbreak in Africa, that has the potential to spread. I understand the concern because, hell, who wants to have their eyes bleeding or constant vomiting or the final plunge death. But I have to say I have been really disappointed in the lack of education, research and compassion that some of exhibited towards the illness and the Americans who have risked their lives to help contain, and hopefully cure this deadly virus. 

I’ve had a couple convos where folks have said: “why are they bringing those people infected back to the U.S?” “Situations like this always end badly, there’s always some kind of accident.” And to that end, while I understand the fear and discomfort of having two of the patients brought here to Atlanta. GA, I have to say where is your empathy for these folks. To say, oh well, let them stay and die is so un-American and unempathetic. We are a county that does not leave our soldiers on the battlefield when we exit a country from war, so why would we leave our brave Dr’s and nurses on the battlefield of this health war. I’m proud that our government decided to bring our folks back where they can get the best treatment possible. And not only that, where we can examine them and this virus to find, develop and administer the cure to them and others across the globe, so we can eradicate this virus.

If every time there was a outbreak, we just let people die and not try to health, cure and understand, where do you think our society would be in comparison to where it is now with the medical advances we’ve made. Sometimes, for the good of the whole you have to take risk; calculated and measured, precise yet daring. Because it is with these risks that we find cures, make miracles happen and continue to be the America that all of us have known and to a large extent loved.

Ebola can’t be gotten from walking in the room with an infected patient. If you did the research you would know, it is caught from an exchange of fluids. Yes that means sweat, saliva, blood, sexual fluids. That is how it is passed from person to person. So let’s all take a breath and let the medical geniuses do what they do best.. Find a way to kill this shit. American Pride