Ebola & Fear: Two Crippling Diseases | National Catholic Reporter

Ebola & Fear: Two Crippling Diseases | National Catholic Reporter It is not fear of indifference that is on FoxNews, but fear of the different - so this story was made for them. The amazing thing is the body count.  Before American deaths, we published the death tolls in Africa in our news stories.  Now, we act as if only Americans were sick.  The good news, however, is that the current strain does not have the sever bleeding experienced in past years (sadly, this is a cyclical disease, like the flu).  We are also sending people to Africa, even though reporters are too afraid to go with them - and that there is a possible serum and maybe a vaccine.  If so, these benefits can be brought back to Africa - hopefully with public or contracted public manufacture so that American pharmaceutical companies treat the elite only and not everyone.  That is where solidarity could mean something (not in denying me a much needed iced decaf Americano, which is the best anti-depressant I take - for some its not just a jolt).