It's a Miracle and Deserves Many Kudus!

Hi Everyone,

A short time after the first person to have Ebola arrived in NYC last week , my wife and I had a conversation about how to stop people who come from countries that either have Ebola cases or had worked with Ebola patients. My thought was that any person who fit in either category would be immediately quarantined for 21 days. How else could you prevent an Ebola outbreak in a densely populated city such as NYC? To me that was just a common sense solution that would at the very least, try to prevent a potentially dangerous situation from getting out of hand or actually preventing such an occurrence.

So low and behold, (and boy was I surprised), NY Democratic Governor Cuomo and NJ Republican Governor Christie jointly announced that they both had agreed to implement such a preventative plan in both states. This implemented plan is more restrictive than even the CDC's current Ebola regulations. FYI, the last media report from the CDC, was that they were actively discussing the NY, NJ plan in regards to implementing a  similar plan nationally. Finally, politicians, who as a group in my opinion, have the least common sense of any other group, were able to come up with and implement a common sense solution in a timely fashion.

Which is the subject of today's blog. In this day and age, politicians from both sides of the aisle have a terrible and caustic aversion to working together. But here we are now and somehow, someway, Governors Cuomo and Christie found common ground that they were able to work together on and then being able to agree on a plan solution and even implementing it to prevent an Ebola outbreak. Congrats to both of them! Unfortunately in this day and age, politicians also have the unbelievable and stupid ability to take any situation and turn it into a war of ideologies. That's why seemingly simple common sense solutions take an eternity to be agreed upon and then implemented. But that's not what Cuomo and Christie did! Not only was I pleasantly shocked to hear about their agreement, but also the speed in which they were able to come up with a common sense solution and then to implement it to boot. Go figure!

I remember when Governor Christie publicly commended President Obama's help and the federal government's response to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. Christie was vehemently criticized by members of his own party. Now Christie works hand in hand with a Democrat to solve a potential mutual problem and not making it a political issue/problem. They proactively acted for once, instead of reacting, which is usually the way it works these days. Who doesn't see that being used against Christie in the near future. This is the way politicians should work and unfortunately doesn't happen very often.

Again, congratulations to both Cuomo and Christie. My hat is off to you both. Maybe, wishful thinking on my part, others from both parties can and will learn from their experience of being able to work together, hand in hand, to get the job done in a timely fashion.

Til next week.

Peter