Posted on 08/20/2014 8:45:47 AM PDT by Covenantor
Liberian security forces seal slum to halt Ebola
Monrovia - Security forces deployed on Wednesday to enforce a quarantine around a slum in the Liberian capital, stepping up the government's fight to stop the spread of Ebola and unnerving residents.
Liberia has the highest death toll of the four West African countries affected by the dreaded disease, and its number of cases is rising the fastest. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ordered the quarantine and imposed a night time curfew on Tuesday, saying that authorities have not been able to curtail the spread of Ebola in the face of defiance of their recommendations.
Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids, but relatives have been caring for the sick at home in some cases and burial practices that involve touching the body have continued. There is no cure and no licensed treatment for the disease; health workers can only separate the sick from the healthy.
During the raid this weekend in West Point slum, bloody items were stolen and potential Ebola patients fled, raising fears the disease would spread out of control in a densely populated area.
Potential for unrest
On Wednesday, armed soldiers and riot police began blocking anyone from entering or leaving the neighbourhood. A resident saw a coast guard boat patrolling waters around the area.
Mistrust of the government runs high in West Point, and, as frustration with government's inability to stop the spread of the disease grows, there is potential for unrest.
One resident, Richard Kieh, told The Associated Press by phone that the community was in "disarray" following the arrival of forces on Wednesday morning.
"Prices of things have been doubled here," he said.
Ebola has killed at least 1 229 of the more than 2 200 people it has sickened in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the outbreak, according to World Health Organizations figures.
The outbreak is currently the most severe in Liberia and Sierra Leone, but the UN health agency said that there were encouraging signs that the tide was beginning to turn in Guinea. There is also hope that Nigeria has managed to contain the disease to only a few cases
Nigeria's health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Tuesday that a fifth person had died of the disease in that country. All of Nigeria's reported cases so far have been people who had direct contact with a Liberian-American man who was already infected when he arrived in the country on an airliner.
Ebola ping
I love a good conspiracy theory and had a blast with people over 12/21/12 but this one has me seriously concerned.
Especially the part about people BREAKIGN INTO A CLINIC AND TAKING INFECTED SHEETS
I am already stocking up on gasoline, bottled water, toilet paper, canned goods, and ammo. Nothing crazy yet, just doubling my normal purchases
Also, buy some black boot mats and some hangers in your garage to hang up your PPE...DO NOT bring it into the house. Use 10% bleach in the boot mat to decon your rubber boots. Buy a big bucket (horse /cow farm bucket, big and plastic, 2 rope handles) to drop your other PPE in that has bleach in it.
Bad thing about bleach.....it only last a few months once bought.
Buy a few packets of pool shock and learn the formula for making your own bleach. 1lbs of poolshock, theoretically can chlorinate 10,000 gallons of water.
Get a Big Berkey filter for water purification. Buy propane tanks to keep warm/heat up/cook fuel. If you are in a wooded area, consider buying/making a rocket stove.
Oh yeah, set aside a quarantine room in case anyone get symptoms. They dont leave the room for 21 days. No one goes in except to get the puke/crap/piss bucket (in full PPE of course).
Hand digging a shallow grave while you can (still) get power equipment is a good idea if 10s of thousands have it.
Oh, and have lots of toilet paper, your favorite bottle of liquor, and ammo. Lots and lots of ammo.
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...
**Bad thing about bleach.....it only last a few months once bought. **
Yes, the chlorine tends to evaporate out of the bleach, leaving it much
weaker as a disinfectant. I keep my bleach in one-quart glass bottles.
They have plastic caps that deteriorate from the chlorine, though. So
I put a single layer of a sandwich bag over the neck and screw the cap
down on top of that.
It works well, the bleach stays fresh, and the caps do not disintegrate.
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