imagine if the government actually did what it was formed for.
I don't know if anybody here ever did any risk management. I have not, never went to school, none of that- but from fishing and logging and high voltage and machine tools etc I did learn a little bit over the years. Maybe someone else can chime in who has been schooled on this.
what I figured out-
There are low risk, low probability events- these you don't worry about too much.
There are low risk, high probability events- so wear your safety glasses. etc.
There are high risk, high probability events- don't go there.
There are high risk, low probability events, which are wise to protect against if there is in fact anything you can do about them- not much way to protect against a solar flare or an earthquake.
And there are high risk, unknown probability events- like Ebola- OK, fine, it does not look like much now in the US- but IF it gets out, we could have a devastating event.
Disregarding the risk, with so many unknowns, with this sort of potential result, is stupidity.
I just read a quote today from Bastiat, written a few hundred years ago, , to the effect of how the socialists, when challenged on the extent of government control , immediately revert to how the conservatives want no government at all. This sounds just like some of you folks. I hear it all the time, it is a standard refrain from the left. Don't like some of the ever increasing idiotic pollution standards? Oh, you must favor putting pouring pesticides in the water supply. Don't like gun control, Oh, you want babies to have machine guns.
You want some consistency? We don't like the tsa because they are incompetent nit wits. And we don't like what the CDC and the national government are doing WRT Ebola, because it has been demonstrated they are incompetent nitwits.
Now because of the demonstrated stupidity and obfuscation by the CDC, we happen to think that if there is a virus floating around in parts of the world that has the ability to turn your insides into bleeding jelly and have you puking it up and squirting out your ass, that maybe it would be best to stop that from getting here.
We have been so lucky it is near blasphemy to throw away the grace we have been shown so far.