Zika; Act Now or Pay Later (with vigorous interest)
The
mosquito borne Zika virus seems to be one of those unavoidable
environmental challenges that are best met with swift response rather
than slow, lethargy politically speaking. It is also a problem that
is regional rather than national. Mexico too will have the virus and
it will be brought in over the border. There needs to be a master
plan for containing and reducing the Zika virus at least in the
Caribbean and Mexico in addition to the U.S.A. for like illegal alien
immigrants, Zika has no respect for national borders.
Now
and then a challenge arrives that political leaders need to meet
directly than through the usual long, slow, drain and control methods
of insiders. Zika is spreading and increasing its range 24/7 as the
Congress is comfortably numb to that reality. Infected fetuses will
have a lifetime of problems that like foreign wars with lots of
casualties and psychological trauma cause vast expenses for life. The
Zika virus and foreign wars are best nipped in the bub so far as
possible by the frugal political leader. That means getting it done
with adequate funding early rather than with a cheapo, shabby
response. If
Zika was the fruit of ISIS or Al Qaeda biological war would D.O.D.
and Congress act as if they were already children of the virus?
The
U.S. Congress may choose to posture and negotiate about the effect of
funding a billion dollars on a medical prophylactic. If Ted Cruz were
in the House he might filibusterer passage until it is paid for with
money diverted from jobs for homeless people. All that waste of time
politics is an unfortunate and detrimental to future human health
exercise in myopic finance;p no one believes the Congress can pay
off the national debt. That may be accomplished through breaking the
nation up into five easy pieces someday in order to denounce the debt
of the U.S. Government.
In
the meantime it might be a good idea to discover some way to give a
zero-interest loan of 3 billion dollars to a health bank that could
mint five dollars for each buck it gets loaning out the money at
exceedingly favorable terms to medical research and application firms
and governments to combat Zika. probably the U.S. Government will
need to finance western hemispheric Zika war if it is going to
prevent a new generation of pin-head politicians from reaching being
conceived. Perhaps money should be diverted from Defense Department
spending. Alternatively the D.O.D. could be involved in biological
war defense against natural evils too. Maybe however, the U.S.
Government does not regard shrunken head syndrome as anything to
fight about.
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