Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever
things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever
things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue
and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things."
The Ebola Scare
Does even the name make you cringe? Here in recent news this
is all you ever hear about, Ebola. I think people get scared because as in
anything we don’t know a thing about and what we do know is all spoon fed to us
via media outlets who are often one sided.
Are you the kind of person that when something serious
happens, you want to know all the information you can about the event? You sit
sometimes for hours seeking out news, listening to people, digging through
fact-finding websites just so you can get some kind of handle on the situation?
It’s been an interesting month in the Ebola crisis. It began
with U.S. missionaries flown here for treatment over the past summer, they were
treating Ebola patients and came down with the disease and were brought back to
America to be treated, then it went to a man Thomas Eric Duncan who came into
the country with Ebola, and now two nurses are fighting the disease because
they took care of Mr. Duncan.
Here’s what we know about the Ebola scare:
According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola
outbreak in West Africa has sickened 8,399 people since March, killing 4,033 of
them -- making it one of the worst outbreaks of the virus in history.
We know that two nurses that had close contact with Duncan
have now been diagnosed with Ebola and finally after two and a half weeks of
exposure to the outside world, the 75 or more attendants of Duncan are being
asked to have limited contact with the outside world.
Due to the lackadaisical attitude of the CDC and of the
nurses who treated Duncan, Americans are now fearful of where the disease will
show up next. I say fearful because the illness knows no bounds and I feel the
Center for Disease Control is not as in control as they would like us to
believe.
They are the people who didn’t restrict the nurses from
boarding planes, jumping on a Cruise ship and exposing possibly hundreds of
people to the disease. Why wasn’t after every single worker that came into
contact with Duncan told they had to restrict contact with others for 21 days?
Because of the inconvenience to this very selfish society? To me, it’s a very
ignorant response to a lethal killing machine.
Then there is the lying factor. First, Duncan did not tell
anyone he had come in close contact with a woman who died from Ebola. He
exposed everyone on the plane but because he didn’t have symptoms, he
ignorantly thought he was exempt from spreading the disease. He told the
hospital the very first time he came in with a fever that he had just come back
from the infected Liberia, but they sent him home.
He goes home and comes in contact with three residents
living in the house, whom we’ve not heard a peep about since they were put in
isolation. He is rushed back to the hospital, VERY sick, and is in contact with
unprotected nurses and doctors again, who then finally diagnose him. He’s
carted off to isolation and later dies.
We know the Dallas Texas hospital was not capable of
handling such an infectious disease and instead of notifying a more capable
hospital, only FOUR in the country, the ego won out and the hospital sat on a
high horse claiming, “We got this handled!”
They DID NOT have the sources to care for the disease and
because of their ignorance many are coming down with the disease. The country
is blaming Obama for letting people into this country, pointing fingers at
people for this and for that all the while the Ebola scare is becoming a real
possible epidemic.
I blame the selfish ignorant people who sat on a high horse
thinking they were exempt from such a disease even though they KNEW full well
that they had been in contact with a contagious man, therefore possibly sharing
their disease with hundreds of others. The spoon-fed smiling faces of the
infected do not fool me into thinking I’m exempt!
Satan has got us in his hands. People are fearing, lying,
ashamed, hiding facts, being selfish and thinking of only themselves and their
pleasure. They are killing, raping, beating and devouring the very essence of morality
in record proportions.
I have a funny feeling that people are going to be turning
to their faith, any faith, flocking to the churches and finding peace while
hiding from pain and fear of this retribution. These are the times I read about
and the times I’ve prepared my soul for in the grand scheme of things. May the
Lord God be with you all.
Isa. 52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the
eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
of our God.
