Ebola scare

Seems like our medical world was not in any way prepared for an outbreak of a disease of this type.  Guess we have gotten complacent since the defeat of Polio.  In my humble opinion, we should never let our guard down.  We now have the Entrovirus D68 and my bet is that it came in with the influx of illegals from Central America.  Why?  Well, I have lived in Texas since 1970.  There is a small town in South Texas that has from at least the 1970's had to have their teachers tested for TB twice a year and quite often a teacher would catch TB.  Why?  Because it was a big farming  area and this is where the migrants put their kids in school.  We also delt with head lice, scabies and other outbreaks due to those from across the border.  We don't even really know who is in our country illegally.  We don't know where they came from.  We don't know the diseases they carry. 

Several years ago, Texas was under a rabies quarantine because of the coyotes coming up from Mexico and bringing it to our wildlife.  We could not travel outside Texas with our animals without papers showing they were immunized.  That was somewhat controlled by the Texas Parks and Wildlife lacing food pellets with the rabies medication and dropping it from airplanes.   So, yeah, I do think that a lot of our medical problems sneak across the border.  And once here, of course they get free medical care and free schooling and free food.  Am I bitter?  Yes.  At no point was I given a say in whether my tax dollars would be used for the care and schooling of those not citizens.  At no time was I asked if I want to do this.  No.  I do not.  Our tax dollars should be to benefit our own citizens.  Our own students are being shoved aside so we can educate all these illegals. 

Ok, I got off track.  Of course Ebola was going to make it to our shores.  And there will be more.  The will come here for the free medical and because they think they will get better care here.  And we, the taxpayer, will be saddled with the bill.  Of our own citizens who contract this disease, they will be financially destroyed.  Those nurses have lost everything.  All papers, personal effects, everything is gone.  And no income while they are ill.  At least the hospital is taking care of their treatment free of charge, or so they say.  And we are supposed to feel sorry for the rest of the world.  Has it ever crossed anyone's mind that maybe, just maybe, it is time we practiced population control?  This planet is finite in what it can handle.  Unless we start practicing population control, we will continue to have these outbreaks and each one will be worse than the  one before.  Eventually, we will have one that will wipe out a large chunk of the world population.  Smallpox and the black plague did a damn good job.  It will happen.