One would have thought that “Political Correctness” would have stopped at the shop doors of the CDC and other healthcare operations like Dallas Presbyterian Hospital. But one would have thought wrong!
In our 21st Century compartmentalized brains we seem to regret … even resent … the fact that honesty and competency are closely linked ideas. It is very hard to do the right thing or to do things well when you have to submit yourself to the tortured mechanisms of the “public relations” apparatus. When you have to avoid “truthy” language so as not to offend people, pretty soon, you forget the truth.
The truth about Ebola … or any fill-in-blank contagion … is you have to contain it to kill it. Look up the word “Quarantine.” As in: “Yes, so sorry you’ll have to miss your Monrovia relatives at the holidays, but Liberia is under Quarantine.”
The OMG moments in this dog and pony operation regarding Ebola are mind numbing. If you haven’t already seen the clip below, here we have Sanjay Gupta, not one known for donning tin-foil hats, having to operate in the land of unreality, interviewing the director of the CDC. It is a pitiful display:
When will we come to our senses? Please pray these clowns aren’t as incompetent as they appear!