The Trump admin has already slashed health funding for Kenya, but now expects Kenya to host American Ebola patients—rather than bring them home to care for them here.
Both governments should heed the concerns of Kenyan civil society.
Hence a fair deal should be a pandemic "station house" built and equipped in Kenya for Kenyans - and a clause for free access for infected Americans in the region.
The public thinks preparedness is waste, because success looks like inactivity. The fire truck polished in the station house is called civilization. The missile buried in a Midwestern silo is called deterrence. Yet a WHO lab sitting quiet, a CDC epidemiologist waiting for an outbreak, or stockpiled PPE, suddenly is “bureaucratic excess.”
That is the idiocy of modern politics: we praise insurance in war, fire, and finance — but mock it in public health because the catastrophe did not happen this week.
Pandemics are not prevented by improvisation. They are prevented by long stretches of expensive boredom interrupted by moments of terror.
Cutting basic science and cutting preparedness means we will try to offload our problem on Kenya and volunteers at airports. That isn't a strategy, that is a bandaid for a gunshot wound
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