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I believe the commenters concern is that threats to african lives aren't viewed as significant threats, only threats to western lives.
by cariaso 11y ago
I believe the commenters concern is that threats to african lives aren't viewed as significant threats, only threats to western lives.
- Kalium 11y agoMore generally, policymakers tend to be concerned about their constituents and taxpayers over those who are neither. Arguably, that's the who point of a representative democracy.
- agumonkey 11y agoThreats to those with means, but anyway, we're led to believe this should not happen in medicine, a life is a life. It's all very sad anyway.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI expect that's the specific reason "The Hot Zone" and "The Coming Plague" name the victims. That is, rather than "An African man had Ebola" they would say "Arthur Obama had Ebola". There's a whole world of difference between the two.