"… Ebola is now an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before.... It's spiraling out of control. It is getting worse. It's spreading faster and exponentially. Today, thousands of people in West Africa are infected. That number could rapidly grow to tens of thousands… And if the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us."
The United Nations Security Council is expediting a resolution coercing countries into providing the urgent aid required to mitigate the contagion-stricken region.
The World Bank approved a $105 million stopgap grant to help cope with the economic impact of the plague.
The Department of Defense pleaded for "an additional $500 million in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds to combat the pestilence, while the U.S. military has been charged with an unprecedented logistical challenge for which it is totally unprepared.
The C.D.C.’s "commensurate" response to the pandemic: “among the largest deployments of C.D.C. personnel ever.”
“The World Health Organization's failed response to the Ebola crisis showed anew that the group is more a politically minded policy-making body than a relief agency. The WHO claimed that it lacked the resources to respond to Ebola, but while the outbreak was spiraling out of control in West Africa, the organization had plenty of time and money to mount an international campaign to combat what it flagged last month as a ‘grave concern.’ Not Ebola, but electronic cigarettes.”
“The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general issued a highly critical report finding that DHS lacks sufficient supplies and preparedness to handle a domestic pandemic…. We're still far less prepared than we should be, and far more vulnerable than we're admitting.” (Scott Gottlieb And Tevi Troy, Ebola's Warning for an Unprepared America, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2014).
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God…. Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah” (Psalm 9:17-20).
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