We'll Handle It

I'm not sure why we all had so much confidence that our messed up medical system could handle an outbreak of a deadly contagious disease.

"Were protocols breached?" said union spokeswoman Rose Ann DeMoro, "There were no protocols."

"These nurses are not well protected. They're not prepared to handle Ebola or any other pandemic," said DeMoro. "We are deeply alarmed."

DeMoro said the nurses who had come forward were afraid to reveal their identities "because of a culture of threat in the hospitals."

Quite likely we'll handle it well enough because ebola isn't that contagious (not airborne), but if it was...