Cops and Docs in America: After a Bioterrorist Attack or Ebola Outbreak Will They Help Us?

Given that the United States is the primary target of extremists, Ebola is the suicidal terrorists' perfect bioweapon. This is an account of the official barriers that criminalize protection and treatment regardless of need or constitutional guarantees. It is an account of those prosecuted because some providers rejected official barriers that intersect with emergency responders already providing patch, pray and love remedies. Utilizing modern tragedies such as Hurricane Katrina as a social laboratory, predictions about the preventable death of victims in poverty paints a disturbing picture of their continual hopelessness, yet it glorifies a renaissance of capitalism While finalizing a textbook on Criminal Justice and Public Health: MRSA and Other Deadly Pathogens, I discovered a version about the safety of professional personnel delivering emergency services inspiring this work. This work shadows personnel and healthcare systems providing or failing to provide public safety, treatment, and care because of what I call ‘Agents of Compliance.’ The Agents are discussed later and include: • Infectious disease exposure threats linked to suspects, patients and co-workers • Organizational policy and politics • Federal and state compliance regulations Finally in this regards, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as December 10, 2014 the US rates 7.4 out of 10 (a ‘C’ grade) in preparedness for natural disasters, terrorism, and disease pandemics. Occupational Routines of First Responders This book is also about the at-risk occupational routines of criminal justice professionals (law enforcement and correctional personnel) and their collaborative partners in healthcare (hospitals, physicians, nurses, and healthcare providers at many levels of treatment) who often interact with hosts or carriers of infectious diseases: hosts include suspects and perpetrators of crime, patients and colleagues, prisoners and priests, victims of crime and accidents, victims of terrorist attacks and terrorists, victims of highway accidents and family violence, and others requiring medical attention, protection, or comfort; hosts can include providers themselves of public safety and treatment to victims of disastrous events. Warning Signs There are warning signs that the US is a target of a bioweapon attack that are as clear as the warnings received before Hurricane Katrina set down on the American Gulf Coast. Government apparently was either unable or refused to respond professionally to those warning signs of Katrina’s catastrophic potential, as you will learn. Rather the US government spent more time, funds and quality management on erecting a justification about their ineffective response through politically elegant rhetoric including YouTube action that made President Bush and his crew appear to be martyrs more than sinners. It could be that Bush’s administration didn’t know how to report its flaws or didn’t want to. For instance, a study conducted for the US Congress says in part that “in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina there were concerns that federal readiness for the disaster had been hampered by an overemphasis on planning for terrorism at the expense of planning for natural disaster.” Obviously the redundant wars on drugs, immigrants, and poverty have many battlefronts, many survivors, and many entrepreneurs building an incredible powerbase while enhancing their financial interests at the expense of national security. Also, is that to say that America is losing the wars in Afghanistan and Iran because resources are buried in a war on poverty? All the evidence in this book says that bottom line, if you're poor, you're going to die before other victims after a bioweapon's attack or infectious pathogen outbreak. And if you're black or brown and poor - you'll die first. All the silliness and energy about a South Carolina flag is a diversion for the rise of a another flag.