This is not funny.

Bill Hobby is the former Lt. Governor of Texas.  He’s 82 years old and has learned a thing or two in this life.

He’s talking about the so-called ebola crisis in Texas – another suspected case in Texas – but has a different take on it than Rick Perry does.

Ebola in Texas. It’s scary that the almost-always-fatal virus is here in our state. But your chances of getting run over by a city bus are far greater than coming down with Ebola. Local, state and federal resources have been mobilized to stop this menace.

It makes me wonder why we can’t respond as well to the state’s longer-term crises — in health care and education.

It’s a real emergency that 22 percent of all Texans — about 5.7 million people — lack health insurance. People without insurance may not get vaccinated for the flu or other communicable diseases, receive pre-natal care, or seek early treatment for chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer. Why haven’t we mobilized resources to deal with this emergency, particularly when the federal government offers to shoulder most of the cost?

Amen, Bill, amen.

Read it all right here.