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Ebola and ISIS -- the Similarities



Ebola and ISIS  -- the Similarities
The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.
According to The New England Journal of Medicine, a two-year-old boy in a rainforest village of southern Guinea, by the name of Emile Ouanmouno was the first known victim of the Ebola virus. Virtually no one else in the world had ever heard of Emile prior to his untimely contracting of the disease. Today, the world reluctantly knows Ouanmouno as "patient zero". Emile died on December 6, 2013. It is not clear, yet, how the boy got infected but what we do know is that from that time on, the Ebola virus ravaged West Africa as the death toll soared into the thousands, triggering global panic for fear that the highly contagious disease may yet reach epidemic proportions throughout the world like never before seen. According to the World Health Organization, more than 4,800 have died and thousands of others have contracted the deadly virus, while the numbers of deaths continue to rise. In the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, a 42-year-old Liberian citizen who had come into the country to visit his son and his son's mother, became the first person to die from the Ebola virus on October 8th in a Dallas hospital. With the passing of every day and as the death toll continued to rise, there came a renewed sense of awareness as nations, all over the world, feared for the worst; feared their borders becoming vulnerable to the entry of potential victims, many of whom could have inadvertently contracted the highly contagious virus. In the wake of the Ebola Crisis, the United States had no choice but to take on a leadership role in the war against the deadly disease, and notwithstanding Obama's historical cannons of laissez-faire doctrines adopted on just about every undertaking of his administration, the nature and magnitude of the Ebola crisis, together with some callous criticism from his detractors on his handling of the crisis, left the latter with no choice but to intensify the fight against Ebola when just as recently as last week, the administration announced the start of a much more aggressive campaign to combat the virus both domestically and abroad.

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As the Ebola crisis continued to worsen, news broadcasts throughout the nation became increasingly fixated on reporting all new outbreaks here in the United States

In the United States response medical teams from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], staffs began working 24/7 shifts at multiple Border Health field offices located in international airports and land borders. As recently as October 27th, public health authorities began active post-arrival monitoring of travelers whose travel originates in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea. Screening for symptoms of the disease on incoming travelers are now being jointly conducted by Custom and Border patrols together with the CDC staff. Again, CDC has joined efforts with partners from all ports of entry into the United States to prevent possible access and spread of the infectious disease within our borders. Some of the partners now carrying out the disease-prevention campaign include Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, state and local health departments, and local Emergency Medical Services staff. In addition to all the domestic precautionary measures implemented to battle the disease, there was consensus amongst the Center for Disease Control and Prevention together with the medical community in general, to step-up in a major way the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. As such, on Tuesday, October 28th, President Obama announced that the U.S. would be sending troops, materials to build field hospitals, additional health-care workers, community care kits and badly needed medical supplies to the ailing nation and epicenter of the epidemic. Amid the impending crisis, the White House said on Tuesday:
"The number of new cases is increasing exponentially," calling the situation a "dire emergency with ... unprecedented dimensions of human suffering". "Men, women and children are just sitting, waiting to die right now. We can't dawdle on this one. We have to move with force and make sure that we are catching this as best we can, given that it has already broken out in ways that we have not seen before. The CDC already has hundreds of professionals on the ground in what President Obama described as the "largest international response in the history of the CDC."
As the Ebola crisis continued to worsen, news broadcasts throughout the nation became increasingly fixated on reporting all new outbreaks here in the United States. Each new case where someone had either become and/or could potentially become infected with the virus made immediate headline news as victims were summarily sent into strict solitary quarantine confinements in different hospitals throughout the nation, sending Americans a sublime message that everything was well under control. Before we knew it, the Ebola coverage had taken an unprecedented priority in just about all newsrooms of the mainstream media in the nation, as well it should. From my own perspective, however, there was seldom, if ever, a time when I turned on my T.V., in which I did not hear some sound bite regarding the deadly disease. It was only then that I realized the true seriousness posed by this virus; it was only then that I realized the magnitude and gargantuan hazards looming over the world's horizons, if, for whatever reasons, this highly contagious disease ever got out of control. It was also at the crossroads of this realization; at this very juncture when I realized the daunting similarities one could draw between the deadly Ebola virus and ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] threat, if yet, how frightening was the disparity in the way the administration has chosen to treat these two evils of humanity. Just think about it for a moment; while at first it would appear difficult, maybe even impossible to draw any such comparison between these two [Ebola and ISIS], the more you think about it, the more sense it will all begin to make. For instance, both Ebola and ISIS were almost unheard of back a couple of years ago. As mentioned earlier, even though the Ebola virus had been known to exist since it first appeared in 1976, the world really did not come to pay any attention to it until as recently as last year, when the current outbreak in west Africa (first cases notified in March 2014), was the largest outbreak since first discovered. Now, take ISIS, a spin off of the Syrian Civil War, which began as an unrest in the early spring of 2011, as Arab Spring protestors rioted against President Bashar al-Assad's government. The conflict gradually transformed into an armed rebellion. By December 2013, nearly 700 people had been killed within the Syrian rebel groups. It was only then, when, for the first time ever, the world became aware of ISIS - a hard-line, puritanical offshoot from al-Qaida, increasingly dominating Bashar al-Assad's opposition, threatening to spread its influence into northern Iraq - the middle-east's bastion of western-style democracy, achieved at the expense of thousands of American lives, only for Obama to give it all back in a matter of days. For the longest time, just prior to the Syrian Civil War, we would all associate terrorism with labels such as al-Qaida, the Taliban, the Jihad, and other Islamic fundamentalists, thus my contention that Ebola and ISIS are, if you will, rather recent historical events. Notwithstanding the timeline similarities, one may also conclude that both Ebola and ISIS, pose a threat to humanity, albeit Ebola has killed close to 5,000 while the Iraqi civilian death toll of those killed by ISIS now passes 5,500. Notably, Ebola kills in the form of a deadly virus, while ISIS, on the other hand, makes a deliberate choice to assassinate its victims with any weapons available, including the brutal beheading of its victims. We could, for all I know, conclude that ISIS is prone to spread as a contagious disease, just like Ebola. I can also unremittingly presume that, if left untamed, both [ISIS and Ebola] could, very well, reach epidemic proportions, like none that we have ever before seen. Armageddon maybe? Who knows...? So, now that you may have begun to notice with me, some of the parallels which, at first, drew my attention, just maybe, the whole entire comparison may begin to make some sense. Not so far-fetched as you may have thought, would you not agree? Given the similarities, would it also not stand to reason, then, that our lamed administration would treat both of these "epidemics" in the same identical way we treat the Ebola virus? Would it not make sense, then, that in that same breath of patriotic sensitivity on which our esteemed White House charlatan decided to take an aggressive stand against Ebola, would do the same with ISIS? Have we not set out to defend and protect our borders from the Ebola virus because of the impending threat it poses to our wellbeing? But...what about ISIS? Does not ISIS pose the same if not a greater threat to us than does Ebola? So...why, I ask, is the United States not taking the same leadership role in preventing the spread of ISIS as we have taken in the Ebola crisis? Why have we not deployed our assets and resources to eliminate ISIS in the same fashion and with the same blitzkrieg responsiveness now committed to eliminating the Ebola threat? Is there a difference? Are Ebola and ISIS so different as to making one and/or the other more deserving of our attention? I personally don't have the answers to these questions, but what I do know is that terrorism today poses a real and present danger to all of us, if yet we cannot consider taking a serious stand of any kind against an enemy which poses a potentially much greater danger than the Ebola virus and all viruses put together. For all I know Ebola has no mind of its own; it is just that - a virus. Dangerous as the latter may be, it still does not have a mind of its own. ISIS, on the other hand, not only has a mind of its own, but a well-organized one at that; a militant mind committed to destroying us; committed to destroying the infidels of the West - a militant mind with much more doggedness and determination than the Ebola virus, or, for that matter, any other virus. Mr. President, don't you think that the time has come for you to take on terrorism in the world with the same resolve you appear to be giving the Ebola virus? How about cloning some of the same radical steps already taken with Ebola? How about tightening our borders and not letting in anyone of potential ties with radical Islamism come into our country? How about stepping up security at all ports of entry, and, other than looking for signs of viral sickness, we begin looking for signs of terrorist symptoms? How about deploying our assets, anywhere in the world where we know there is an ISIS outbreak, just as we are in West Africa because of Ebola? As bizarre as all of this may sound at first, as plausible it becomes when you really think about it. The chances of the world succumbing to a terrorist epidemic are, Mr. President, far more, sir, than those of perishing from the Ebola virus.

Media: Treat ISIS and terrorism with the same forceful sensationalism with which you treat the Ebola outbreaks

And, to our mainstream media, I say, while it is fine and great that you carry on with your mission of keeping us all abreast of the Ebola outbreaks throughout the world, as well you should, it would probably serve us just as well if you were to treat ISIS and terrorism with the same forceful sensationalism with which you treat the Ebola outbreaks, maybe even more. I will rest my case by cautioning all of you, my fellow-Americans, that I am not proposing to you -- by no stretch of the imagination -- that we underestimate the dangers and threats posed by the Ebola virus, nor is that the message that I want to convey here to you today.. It is my message here today, however, to bring the attention of all of us good Americans to the fact that our nation is, indeed, under a great threat, equally, if not more dangerous than the infamous Ebola virus. I refer, very specifically, to the threat posed by Islamic radical terrorism - one expediently reaching epidemic proportions of such vast magnitude that it would probably make the Ebola crisis pale in comparison. While we take great care and precaution in announcing the first death of someone in America killed by the Ebola virus, we have virtually become immune to daily beheadings by these [ISIS] animals now taking place day in and day out all over the world. Terrorism, mind you, is well out of control, both here and abroad. We find it in our colleges and universities; in the halls of Congress and the courts of the land; in Hollywood and in the mainstream media. Even so, our pandering President still chooses to do almost nothing about it, except enjoy his next golf outing, while the world around him continues to crumble. It is about time that this impostor we call President, face up to the real world around him and not his prescient fantasies - to the next fund-raising event or the next manicured photo-op in the golf cart. In ending, Mr. President, I will paraphrase the message you recently sent to America regarding the Ebola crisis, while using the very same message only as it refers to world terrorism instead of Ebola, - "The number of new cases are increasing exponentially," I call the situation: "a dire emergency with ... unprecedented dimensions of human suffering". May God save America from Ebola and from terrorism.


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