Hospitals or Government? USA

Originally posted by Eladar
They were able to wipe out many diseases in the US it is only now that we are seeing diseases brought into the country.

Since you believe the US needs to be brought down a few notches, you see nothing wrong with making the US more like the rest of the world.

Originally posted by Quarl
This is exactly what I tried (it seems unsuccessfully) to outline in my post previous to yours.

Let me state it plainly: Those in power want a level of US Ebola infection to force unlimited funding for an all out effort to develop an Ebola cure.

That is the ONLY logical conclusion a thinking person could possibly come to when unfettered entrance is granted to both infected and possibly infected individuals.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Your attempted historical revisionism is, frankly, quite bizarre.

Originally posted by normbenign
Poor attempt at refutation.

Originally posted by normbenign
Poor attempt at refutation.

Since starting this thread I heard someone explain why the government wants ebola brought into our country: funding.

Ebola will never get the funding that AIDS receives because Ebola isn't in the US. Bring Ebola to the US, then it will get more funding and Africa gets helps.

It is the only thing that makes sense to me.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Do you really believe the notion that diseases are brought into the US "only now" is worthy of serious consideration?

Originally posted by Eladar
Why should I play games with a leftist?

Perhaps that's your cup of tea, I see it as a waste of time.

Originally posted by normbenign
Do you really believe that the American medical system hasn't eliminated quite a few diseases that in the past plagued mankind?

I do believe that government will use whatever it takes to get the laws it wants, or to make its actions more palatable.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Aha, so someone says "A and B" where A is an utterly trivial statement, and B is a ludicrous one, which takes either an iota of knowledge or a femtosecond of Googling to refute. Then I say the statement is ridiculous, from which you conclude that it must be "A" that I have problems with, and not "B"... even after I already explicitly state that i ...[text shortened]... is the intellectual equivalent of rolling around in pig faeces while reading an Ayn Rand novel?

Originally posted by normbenign
Another irrelevant distraction. Commonly known as bamboozling with BS.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Whatever you say.

Diseases have "only now" been brought to the US. Agree/Disagree?

Originally posted by normbenign
That wasn't the point belittled originally. You moved the goal posts. Of course European diseases came with Europeans, and some of them have been virtually eliminated.

Those infectious diseases came with travelers or immigrants unintentionally. Is there a reason to suspect that introduction of this virus is at least partly intentional?

Originally posted by Eladar
The comment is only for the US because unlike other countries in the US the Hospitals are not a wing of the government.

Who is charged with public safety?

The government or hospitals? If you don't like hospitals and want to call it the medical community, go for it.

To be specific, I'm talking about ebola. Who is supposed to protect the US populatio ...[text shortened]... no right to say that it doesn't need to quarantine and making it the Hospital's responsibility.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
[b]That wasn't the point belittled originally.

Yes, it was.

You moved the goal posts.

No, I didn't.

Of course European diseases came with Europeans, and some of them have been virtually eliminated.

So?

Is there a reason to suspect that introduction of this virus is at least partly intentional?

No.[/b]