Name that disease.

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Guess the disease.

1) No one really cared when it seemed limited to a small percentage of the population.

2) No one cared when this small percentage of the population was comprised of people for which others found reasons to support their dislike of.

3) there was no money allotted to research until it seemed to enter the majority population

4) Facts about it were downplayed in favor of rumor and fear mongering

5) Pundits made wild statements about where it came from and how a person could get it.

6) Pundits began to attach politics to the disease.

7) Conservative politicians said that people with it were going to die anyway, so those with it should just be allowed to die, or be put away until they did.

Now here’s a hint:

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Think: It is easier to find one Waldo in a three ring inflatable pool with very few people in it than it is to find a number of Waldos in a picture of a crowded beach.

In the other disease, according to Francis Collins, Director of the National Institute of Health, a 10 year hold on spending on the agency has “slowed down” critical research. In that time period, 2004-2014, the budget had only increased by about $1 billion which may seem like a lot, but not if inflation is figured in.

A Democratic bill to boost the NIH’s budget to $46 billion by 2021 doesn’t seem to have a chance of getting anywhere.

According to Collins, since Ebola has been around for a while there could have been a vaccine, except, “NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It’s not like we suddenly woke up and thought, ‘Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here…Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.”

George W. Bush cut funding for the CDC in every budget , and under the Republican leadership it has had its funding cut by $600 billion since 2010.

Whereas the GOP wants to claim their budget cutting deals only with fat, in this case it has affected health.

So, when the people at Fox News are thanking Obama for Ebola, and are claiming he has no interest in curbing it, and when people like Phylis Schlafly and others claim that Obama wants Ebola to spread so America will suffer, the expressions of gratitude, the “Thanks, Obama”, are being directed away from those whose actions have had consequences.

And I won’t mention the health insurance thing, or that coincidentally, two diseases hit the big time, one under a Republican president, the other under a Republican led congress,and that in both cases it was the denial of funding by the GOP that allowed the disease to spread.

Perhaps because they originally were seen in the “others” first?

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