Vaccines and reason

Are there people out there, who consider themselves rationale, that took one look at the ebola crisis and thought,"there is no need to vaccinate my children"?

There is an entire continent that hopes for a vaccine for Ebola. What was unclear about this?

Sending doctors to ebola outbreaks should be a last resort, not a first

We as a society spend a huge amount of money to train a doctor.  We have very few of them and never enough for all the needs of the people.

Consider what it means when you plan to send your doctors overseas to an ebola infection zone.  I'm not saying that we shouldn't send help. I'm not saying we should do nothing.

I'm saying that we should come up with an alternative - like hiring less qualified medical people to go in their place after they take an intensive disease training course to combat that one disease.  We have lots of unemployed medical workers we could train and deploy without risking all our doctors.

If we train people and send them on a six month contract, with life insurance, we have now trained an extra cadre we in society could use later on if we need them.

Sending our doctors should be a last resort, not a first resort.

Open Letter In Case I Contract Ebola

Hello;

If I contract Ebola, then here's what you can do for me:

Assuming there is no simple cure at the time, then please heed these instructions:

If I slip into a coma, critical condition, or my prognosis is not good then:

1. Kill me: do not allow the infection to slowly take over my body as a virus generation platform. Viral catastrophes are not won by thinking in territory but in terms of invaded viral platforms. The less resources we give a virus the more chances we have to end a plague.

2. Incinerate me: our bodies are vessels and this one is only part of me.  It's not me so think of society over my personal rights.  Eliminate the possibility that I could be used as a beachhead to infect other people. I won't mind, I'm dead remember?