The Top 2 Myths Debunked by the Current Ebola Situation in Texas

[Tsiyu]

Too many people in the U.S. have been operating under the spell of some amazing health care mythology. As they have been repeatedly warned would happen, their collective and powerful belief in their sacred medical mythology now comes back to do us all harm in the form of a virus named Ebola.

What are these myths?

Myth #1. Nobody deserves health care: We are better off as a nation if we deny the poor adequate health care, both privately and publicly

This myth is awesome in its promise of blinding, heavenly lights of prosperity beaming down on insurance companies, for profit hospitals, Liberterians and Teabaggers if only they use Tough Love and tell poor people to just "Go home and die" if they don't have health insurance.

Like myths that involve unicorns and faeries and rainbows, the myth of infectious pathogens that can distinguish between rich and poor people has yet to be proven by the scientific data.

For the Texas Health hospital to try to scrape off a few bucks by failing at triage, diagnosis, infectious disease protocol, isolation, treatment, discharge, admission, followup treatment, and even proper PPE for employees indicates that this hospital's desire to please investors operates under Myth Number 1.

"Look investors! We saved you lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$ by sending a highly-contagious-with-a-deadly-infection man home to infect others! Who cares?!?!?!?!?! We're making bank for you at this health care management gig! Enjoy your earnings!"

But their attitude only reflects the attitude of the Paul Ryans and Mitch McConnell's and conservatives of this nation: "If you don't have health care, too bad for you." Actually, as it turns out, too bad for all of us.

These ghoulish goons don't realize they are sentencing themselves to death by insisting the infectious poor receive no proper health care. They want Western Africa, where the poor die in vast numbers and that's okay because they're only poor people.

Ebola will completely not impact you as long as you have good health insurance and you live in a nice neighborhood and go to the right church, correct? Let the poor drop dead in the streets. The Libertarians will be just fine without gubbmint help, thank you very much.

Myth #2. The Asshole Members of Congress Refusing to Approve a Surgeon General ARE NOT Putting the Entire United States at Risk So Stop Saying That.

Surgeons general are great at times like these. They rally the troops. They respond to medical crises with SCIENCE and SOUND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.

But our lovely Republican and Teabagging congress scum have decided that holding up that black man's administration's anything and everything will make their mouthbreathing white base think of them as heroes. And their white, mouth breathing base think of them as heroes!

"Who needs a surgeon general? We don't need no stinking science," say the white mouth breathers, and so we get no surgeon general to help our nation through this Ebola situation.

It's not hurting us for Congress and the Mouthbreathers to play fucking games. No siree.

I guess myths are nice to have. I'm going to go have a myth right now that all greedy sociopaths in society become vulnerable to a disease that afflicts only the avaricious. It's about as scientifically sound as the myths that disease will not hurt you if you have money, and that holding up key positions in government won't negatively impact every person in this nation.