In the news recently I’ve been seeing a lot of diverting fluff. We’ve got people pouring buckets of ice water over their heads, Ted Cruz working extra hard to make sure he gets no votes in the Bronx, Miley Cyrus doing a pitch-perfect reenactment of Tom DiCillo’s 2006 film “Delirious”.
It’s all very entertaining, but none of it really matters.
Yet I don’t see daily stories about those heroes in Liberia, sacrificing their lives to save others during the Ebola outbreak. I am in awe of these nurses. They know that their very courage will almost certainly cause their own death in a matter of weeks, yet they put their fear aside to save as many lives as they can, while they can.
How many of us would have the strength of character to make such a decision? In a sane and sensible world, the pictures and personal stories of these courageous nurses would dominate the front page of every daily newspaper around the world.
Of course we don’t live in a sane and sensible world. Oh well, at least we can pour buckets of ice water over our heads.