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FReepathon day 37.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/07/2014 5:28:46 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
In crisis situations, rumour mills – long a prominent feature of daily life in Nigeria – take on a frenetic urgency. Add the push and reach of social media and the impact grows exponentially. The least any responsible government can do is make available accurate and credible information.
Yet when I attended a briefing by senior officials of the Lagos state government on the rising threat of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa’s most populated city yesterday, I found journalists struggling to confirm exactly how many lives had been affected by the outbreak so far.
The Lagos commissioner put the total number of confirmed cases (including fatalities) at eight, but the number released earlier in the day by the federal authorities in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, seven hundred kilometres away, was seven.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
They’ll provide accurate Ebola statistics right after they provide accurate budgets of how all their aid money was spent.
The writer got distracted and spent almost half the article bashing Christianity.
No new numbers for three days now.
Delta airlines still offers direct flights back and forth to Lagos from Atlanta.
United does the same to Houston.
http://www.servantmedia.com.ng/blog.php?id=744#.U-Pv6ribnx8.facebook
It may be in Benin now, courtesy of a Nigerian trader who fell ill.
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While Ebola fear may be overstated, the act of bringing in a couple of people with Ebola creates a non-zero probability of it spreading. That’s irresponsible.
Obama thinks Ebola is a country (whre the Ebonics language comes from) and is probably looking to invade it.
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