Head of Center for Disease Control: "Just by chance, there had been a glitch in the government system."

It is largely a myth that government is competent when it comes to protecting and aiding the general public.

From Katrina to the badlands of Chicago, government has proved incompetent to "serve and protect."
Now we learn from Thomas Frieden, the head of the Center for Disease Control, that there was a "government glitch" in the approval to remove waste of the Dallas patient who has Ebola.

Huff Po reports that there were:

delays with disposal of the patient's highly contagious medical waste -- a mistake Frieden called a "teachable moment."

"It's the first time we've had to deal with that situation, and just by chance, there had been a glitch in the government system to approve a waste removal company to do that," Frieden said. "That's been resolved. Wish it had been resolved sooner, but it's resolved."

Yes, it is a teachable moment and the lesson learned is that, when it comes to power and government bureaucracy, government employees will follow idiotic power rules rather than attempt to correctly solve a problem. It's just one of many ways that the monopolistic power of government, without fear of competition, suffocates and places us in danger.

AND if Ebola wasn't such a high profile problem, the bureaucracy would still be ruling over common sense.

-RW