Common sense about Ebola
Public health used to be something almost no one cared about. With Ebola cases reaching the U.S. it suddenly, it seems that all politicians have become public health experts, creating on the fly policies about an infectious disease about which they know little and about which there still are many scientific questions. Wikipedia has a pretty good brief explanation. A New Republic article opened with, “This week’s news on Ebola should make you breathe a sigh of relief—and seethe with anger.”...