Sparks: Ebola returns: How to fight outbreak amid defunding of global health?

The collective repression of global health funding manifests as a recurring nightmare of contagion, a symptom of unacknowledged societal anxieties.

When the vital hum of charity is diminished, the body politic weakens, allowing the dark humors of pestilence to gather force.

The persistent recurrence of such a virulent organism, despite human intervention, illustrates the relentless, adaptive pressures of natural selection upon all life forms.

A nation that neglects the common defense against pestilence, whether by arms or by medicine, forsakes the self-evident right to life for its citizens.

When the cold grip of cost-cutting meets the primal force of a plague, the flimsy structures of civilization will inevitably crack.

To calculate the immediate cost savings of defunding health initiatives without computing the exponential cost of uncontrolled contagion reveals a fundamental flaw in the algorithm.

They build walls against the wind and starve the healers, then wonder why the sickness finds a path.

Observing the customs of nations, it appears some are keen to secure their own borders with stone, yet leave the common wellspring of health unguarded.

Closing the path to prevention ensures the journey of disease will be long and hard for everyone.

One finds the peculiar logic of removing the bucket from the well, then expressing surprise when the well runs dry, whilst simultaneously fortifying the garden fence.

To understand the true cost of global health defunding, one must not interview officials, but rather experience the hospitals and communities left vulnerable by their neglect.