Since the first case of ebola on US soil was reported, the virus has become more real for Americans. There have been some of cases of companies giving their employees, who have been to Texas recently, a paid week off even though they haven't come in contact with anybody with the virus. Colleges tell students from Africa are told that they can't go to school there even though they have come from a country without an ebola case. This article argues that Americans are profiling ebola with Africans. Ebola is feeding the fire of racism in the United States. Some argue that white guilt instead of racism is the story present. White guilt is stopping Americans and Europeans from changing the culture of the African people that catalyzes the spread of ebola.
I think that this article is playing up the hype of ebola. Sure its a terrible disease that needs to be contained. With the culture and the conditions in Africa these outbreaks will happen. Ebola is a very important problem that needs to be dealt with but it will, however, the media is always making problems bigger than they really are. There wouldn't be this much fear if we didn't hear about the scary death count everyday.
I agree with you. I think that everybody is exaggerating on how bad it is. It is a horrible disease but in time we will most likely be able to cure it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you too. This whole thing has been blown out of proportion. I remember a while back I saw a chart that had a list of diseases that showed the mortality rate and how contagious it was, and Ebola was relatively low on the chart. Although it is a terrible and scary disease, I believe that our medicine is good enough to stop the outbreak.
ReplyDeleteOne of my teachers just came back from Africa from a project he was working on. He said he had a conversation with some of the people he met and they said that asking someone from Africa if they have ebola is like asking someone from California if they have it because the guys in Texas have it. The media is a bunch of morons.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you said "media is always making problems bigger than they really are". The media will almost always spin things out of proportion to make more money. because thats their job. It is really interesting how the big issues of the time are heavily influenced by media preying on the fears of the public.
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