#Peggy noonan struggle session how to#
In fact, if you had a group of 11-year-olds, they would surely have a superior answer to the question: “Sick people are coming through the door of the house, and we are not sure how to make them well. To call it childish would be unfair to children. A separate issue is how poor a decision it is. Frieden, and those who are presumably making the big decisions, have been so far incapable of making a believable and compelling case for not instituting a ban. Noonan, we should be thinking like children: Noonan writes, is how the government talks, and “everyone who speaks for the government on this issue has been instructed to imagine his audience as anxious children.” No … instead of speaking like children, writes Ms. The petulant naysayers among you may be wont to point out that imposing a flight ban will only make it harder to track the movements and contacts of potentially infected persons.īut that’s just more gobbledygook, more amphigory, more hurbledy-burbledy. You may be inclined to note that the broad consensus among public health officials is that closing off West Africa will only make the epidemic there worse, which will in turn increase the risk of transmission to America. “If we don’t momentarily close the door to citizens of the affected nations, it is certain that more cases will come into the U.S.” It is certain! They will come here with their disease. Noonan observes, drawing deeply from her vast reservoirs of disease-control expertise.
because people in West Africa have Ebola, and we don’t want it to spread.
“We cannot ban people at high risk of Ebola from entering the U.S. But why? The people in charge – the “authorities” – they speak in nonsense words, in “double talk, runaround and gobbledygook.” They say things that don’t make immediate sense and thus aren’t worth taking seriously. The government won’t institute a travel ban for West Africa, she observes. Why won’t these government officials and public health experts defer to the infallible collected wisdom of the people of this storied land, this shining beacon of freedom? She thinks they don’t trust this great nation and its common-sense native intelligence in the realms of virology and epidemiology. The Centers for Disease Control thinks that she is a fool. Peggy Noonan has taken stock of the Ebola crisis in America and she’s devised a solution, an answer, a panacea, if you will.
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