High Ground Underground

     First we were reassured by the CDC and administration that Ebola couldn’t be a problem here, because we know how to deal with it.  Then a single case of Ebola gets into the country, and one of the best hospitals in the country, and the CDC, can’t deal with it.  2 healthcare workers there now have contracted the disease from the person who died from it (it has 70% mortality rate with no known cure), after wearing the protective gear and following protocols.  Obviously they didn’t understand it as well as they assured us.   On top of that, one of them began showing symptoms, and before traveling asked the CDC if she should, and they said yes!  When her symptoms were confirmed, everyone on the plane (over 100 people) is now a potential carrier and must be tracked.  And potentially everyone each of them comes in contact with – many hundreds more, etc., etc.  You can’t quarantine all of those people, or even thoroughly track them all and all their contacts.  And the plane has no