Posted on 10/07/2014 4:52:39 PM PDT by FlJoePa
LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Tamba Hali fled Liberia when it was in the midst of a bloody civil war. Now that the West African nation is at the center of a very different crisis — an outbreak of Ebola — the Chiefs linebacker is lending his support to a humanitarian relief effort.
Hali joined officials from Heart to Heart International, based in suburban Kansas City, to announce Tuesday the construction of a clinic near the capital of Monrovia that will offer 70 beds for patients stricken by the virus.
“People are dying,” Hali said, “and they’re dying at a rapid rate.”
Liberia has been among the hardest hit nations at the center of the long outbreak, which has killed more than 3,000 people.
“The medical system is overwhelmed by the Ebola epidemic, and every doctor and health official said the biggest need is more Ebola treatment units,” said Heart to Heart founder Dr. Gary Morsch. “The world must respond — and urgently — to get control of this outbreak.”
As of Friday, there had been 3,834 confirmed Ebola cases and 2,069 deaths in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization. Forty-four percent of those cases were reported in the past three weeks, a signal that the infectious disease is spreading.
“Liberians are smart people, strident people. It was a beautiful country at one point, when I was very young,” Hali said. “These are good people, God-fearing people, but this is a third-world country. They need help.”
Hali, who fled with his father from Liberia at the age of 10, became an American citizen a few years ago. But he still has family members in Monrovia, on the Pacific coast, and Lofa County, which is along the northern border with Sierra Leone.
“They’ve been fortunate,” Hali said. “My family that’s there hasn’t contracted Ebola.”
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
That country has had way more than its share of misfortune.
Did he shag kids like those Penn State folks you admire so much?
“The world must respond — and urgently — to get control of this outbreak.”
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well the countries in Africa that are involved could close their airports..
and the rest of the world could banned people from those countries from entering ...
that would be a good world wide start...
HG, that was unnecessary on this thread and unworthy of you. Why don't you ask the Mods to remove your comment #4?
With you repeating his post, what good does it do if it gets deleted now? Just sayin’.
As for the poster himself, to each his own. Personal attacks never used to be permitted here, but I guess this is the new FR.
In addition to being a monster OLB, Hali is all class.
One of the good guys, for sure.
I plan to ask the Mods to remove my post as well, as soon as I hear back from HG; I had no intention of leaving it up.
It’s a valid question, imho.
As always, very well done and quite apt. Along with keeping the abusers of Free Republic at bay, your comments are topical, very well-written and free of spelling errors.
Good story. This is what is needed...beds, treatment centers....at the site. Blessings to Mr Hali.
Respectfully have to disagree. It's a personal attack on another FReeper, and has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread or its topic.
If humblegunner has a problem with FlJoePa he can take it up in private FReepMail without crudding up an unrelated thread.
I'm not defending FlJoePa, you understand. I have very strong opinions on that Penn State topic too.
I'm just saying this thread has been hijacked with a rude personal attack that has no relevance to the thread and is unworthy of FR.
Thank you for your polite response. I disagree.
If you ever read his background, you’d be surprised he’s alive - let alone a degreed student athlete starring in the NFL...
...Hali has had a very interesting life...
You think it’s ok that the poster implied that Tamba Hali molested children?
That’s ok? Really?
You want to rethink that - or at the very least try to explain your reasoning?
To: FlJoePa
If you ever read his background, you’d be surprised he’s alive
Did he shag kids like those Penn State folks you admire so much?
4 posted on October 7, 2014 8:09:22 PM EDT by humblegunner
My reasoning is that for a long time you have posted threads in support of Joe Paterno. In fact, your screen name does so with every post that you make.
I never mentioned Penn State when I posted this thread.
Sooo...back to the question - you appear to think it’s OK to imply that a good-natured, well-meaning NFL star is molesting children.
I just want to make certain I get this right.
You’re an ass. The guys doing a good thing and you bring up Penn State. Bitter much?
My response was regarding humblegunner’s post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3212529/posts?page=4#4
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