The Obama administration says the zika virus is “scarier” than initially thought, so they’ve 
asked Congress for $1.9 billon to fight it, warning that if we wait mosquito eradication efforts, lab tests, and or vaccine research may not be able to catch up. To date there have been 346 cases of zika confirmed in the continental United States — all in people who had recently traveled to Zika-prone countries. No one doubts it’s a true health crisis in other countries. But what about here? Are you concerned or is this just another overblown health scare for the U.S.? Have your say in this week’s poll.
1.9 billon, gillon, gabillons, WOW! we could buy and install alot of water pipes, but then we are not a foreign country are we.
Any mosquito eradication efforts are good.
Pay now or pay later. Later always seems to be more. Look at Flint
Because I trust our cool, calm, level-headed President Obama, who is speaking out based on the CDC’s and NIH’s studies thus far–and not someone like Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) or Paul LePage (R-ME) freaking out as they did with ebola–I believe him when he says that the zika virus may be more of a major health problem in the U.S. than originally thought and we need to prepare. With so much travel around the world and climate change bound to bring misery in many places, we need to be as prepared as possible.
I agree but then I think “Ebola.” And I also think how much good $1.5 billion could do elsewhere – Flint for instance.
My heart bleeds for the people of Flint and other cities in this country that are dealing with lead and chemically poisoned drinking water. They are most often in poor communities like Flint that don’t have the economic power to fight back against the polluters and government that is sometimes inept and often uncaring. Not too long ago I watched Erin Brockovich discuss many of these polluted and lead-poisoned areas that her organization has documented all around the country, and it was shocking how many there are–and those are only the ones they know about. How about our government quit paying billions of dollars in subsidies to oil producers and others and then use that money to help fix our crumbling infrastructures–starting with the ones that are poisoning people.
so agree, amen
seems like we’re most often scared about things out of proportion with the reality. Pretty sure if we checked the numbers we’d find a lot more people sickened by poor water system infrastructure. And there’s a looming threat of numbers increasing. And mosquitoes are seasonal; poor water is year round.
As we all know, trust, trust, and trust our beloved leaders. Ya said the blind mouse.
Leat we not forget the millions of lives lost to Ebola, and avian flu, and…… oh wait …… that never happened.
C’mon, Brick, not what I’m saying. I was asking about here. And I said in the backgrounder, yes, it’s a huge and real problem elsewhere, but should we overreact here?
I’m worried about it. I spend a lot of time in Warren at the GM Technical Center and there are a lot of people flying between Michigan, Brazil and Mexico. I suspect it’s the same for Ford and Chrysler. When you have Multinational companies that call your state home with operations and employees in those countries with the disease your home becomes a target.
What does Moon Dimple think…?
Moon pees outside so it doesn’t matter to him. He thinks transgender means someone who likes Trans Ams