Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[Valmy]

Famine is starting to set in.

That, at least, should be a straightforward problem to fix.  Plenty of government subsidized over farming in the West.

[DontSayBanana]

The panic we need to galvanize the masses against this disease is also what is causing the overreaction that makes the current state disastrous. It is a paradox. Whoa.

It's an easy paradox to reconcile, since it's a simple misattribution.  The countries' infrastructures are being decimated by the panic, not the disease.  To steal yet another cliche, the tail is wagging the dog.

[alfred russel]

Famine is starting to set in.

While unpleasant, this is likely the beginning of the end. Humans can only survive for 28 days without food. With starvation already setting in, it will likely be only a week or two more before the infected perish, leaving the survivors to pick up the pieces.

[CountDeMoney]

I have always hated the "czar" bullshit.  How fucking infantile.

[Jacob]

I have always hated the "czar" bullshit.  How fucking infantile.

Do you mean the media's use of the title, or the tendency to appoint a point person to deal with specific issues?

[mongers]

I have always hated the "czar" bullshit.  How fucking infantile.

Do you mean the media's use of the title, or the tendency to appoint a point person to deal with specific issues?

[derspiess]

No he just hates anything to do with pre-revolutionary Russia.

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[CountDeMoney]

I have always hated the "czar" bullshit.  How fucking infantile.

Do you mean the media's use of the title, or the tendency to appoint a point person to deal with specific issues?

The media's--and the government's--use of the title.  It's stupid.  Drug czar.  Cybersecurity czar.  Biz czar, you ask me. Why not a Drug Duke?  Drug Dauphin?  It's sztupid.

Monger's quote is a close 2nd.  Why not an Ebola Commissar?  DONT TURN AROUND

[Barrister]

I have always hated the "czar" bullshit.  How fucking infantile.

Do you mean the media's use of the title, or the tendency to appoint a point person to deal with specific issues?

The media's--and the government's--use of the title.  It's stupid.  Drug czar.  Cybersecurity czar.  Biz czar, you ask me. Why not a Drug Duke?  Drug Dauphin?  It's sztupid.

Monger's quote is a close 2nd.  Why not an Ebola Commissar?  DONT TURN AROUND

US Presidents appointing a czar has a long history - it goes back as far as Woodrow Wilson appointing an "industry czar" in 1920.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/czar-trek/381605/

[garbon]

It was Franklin Roosevelt, though, who solidified the trend.

Ugh.

[CountDeMoney]

Doesn't make it any less fucking stupid.

[Maximus]

I'm with Money on this, but I've ranted about it on languish before.

[Eddie Teach]

Just curious, but by your lights are you ranting about it now?

[Admiral Yi]

He's berserker by Max standards.

Czar is weird, but the alternative is some snoozer of a bureacratic title like chief coordinator.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I have always hated the "czar" bullshit.  How fucking infantile.

Yeah, I absolutely agree with you; news of a new "Czar" always raises my blood pressure and gets me fulminating.

Perhaps more importantly I've never noticed these "Czars" ever achieving much 

Perhaps they are just an update on a Royal Commission.

[garbon]

He's berserker by Max standards.

Czar is weird, but the alternative is some snoozer of a bureacratic title like chief coordinator.

Well they do all have bureaucratic titles too.