Saw this image on FB. Don't like it.
I'm not saying we should panic, but it feels like both the government and media are downplaying the entire situation, which is odd considering past disease panic scares. It's as if they know that it IS a legitimate health crisis and are trying to downplay it. The symptoms of Ebola are strikingly similar to the common flu or other disease, and as we know, America has a culture that frowns upon not working because of sickness. Pull up your boot straps mentality, basically.
We know that Ebola spreads through contact with the infected. What if someone who works in a restaurant and prepares your food and unknowingly has Ebola spreads it via food prep? America loves fast food. Fast food workers work sick all the fucking time because they have to due to the failure of the American healthcare system. And people are placing faith in that very same system that failed to catch and quarantine Patient #1?
This image posted talks about blood, sweat, and vomit, when let's say, someone with ebola throws up in a public place. Who do they think cleans that up? Do the people who made this live in a fucking bubble? The naivete and arrogance that we shouldn't have to worry about this at all because we live in a first world nation is both sad and infuriating. We shouldn't be panicking over it, but the snide downplaying of it because we live in a first world nation is disgustingly classist. In some ways, racist as well.