Lockdown Begins in Sierra Leone to Battle Ebola

New York Times ^ | ADAM NOSSITER

[Morgana]

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The most ambitious and aggressive government campaign against the Ebola epidemic gripping parts of West Africa began on Friday when Sierra Leone ordered everyone in the country to remain indoors for three days, suspending commerce, emptying the streets and halting this beleaguered nation in its tracks in an attempt stop the disease from spreading.

[doc1019]

All I can do is pray for these poor people. And they will be in my prayers for as long as it takes.

[Black Agnes]

Amen.

[Morgana]

This is the only way to stop Ebola

[RedHeeler]

Hah! It is gone from the coop/cote.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don’t know why they just don’t send everyone with Ebola to America. The people living here don’t care.

[RedHeeler]

Prayer without action, is meaningless.

[DannyTN]

The people living in charge here don’t care.

Fixed it.

[null and void]

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[doc1019]

Multitudes of prayers are answered every day without action. Many of my prayers have been answered without me doing anything other then praying. Prayer is the answer.

[Tired of Taxes]

I’m praying, too, doc. I don’t know about anyone else, but that’s all I can do.

[RedHeeler]

Good.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[doc1019]

Prayer is an extremely powerful gift that G_d has given us. Unfortunately, many don’t understand that power.

[Smokin' Joe]

Prayer is the answer.

True, that.

[RedHeeler]

Pray your prayer, see what happens- without your own action.

[Raebie]

So what happens when all of these currently healthy people are locked inside with infected relatives for 3 days?

Will be interesting to see if there’s a spike in about 2-3 weeks.

[Chickensoup]

If they think that people are going to sit aound and get infected and die quietly they are wrong.

Also they are insane to bury thse corpses. They need to burn and burn hot and well.

[Smokin' Joe]

Will be interesting to see if there’s a spike in about 2-3 weeks.

Likely, there will be.

That is the moral dilemma in a lockdown.

It increases the odds of catching the disease for those within the area who do not have it.

It is much lighting a backfire to stop a wildfire. You are going to end up burning some unaffected areas to stop the fire from burning even more.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!