Posted on 08/22/2014 4:30:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
A few weeks ago, West Point was merely the worst slum in war-racked Liberia. Today, it is both that and the most notorious urban center of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak.
It is also quarantined from the rest of the Liberian capital Monrovia, and its dank alleyways subject to a nightly curfew. Barricades and barbed wire have gone up, and troops posted. Ships started patrolling the waterfront on Wednesday to further restrict the movement of the 70,000 or so residents. Food prices have skyrocketed. On Thursday, hundreds of people lined up for government handouts of rice and water.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Poverty is definitely relative.
Basically NO space between dwellings.
The western media has been using the 50k figure this past week. Earlier West African sources have used 75-100k. Nobody really knows, much the same as the Brazilian favelas.
Read the recent FR posts and you”l find that a nearby open air market place was also cordoned off. It’s where west Point got whatever fresh food they good afford. One ex-boy soldier who lost his legs asked how could he beg to survive trapped with other penniless people.
The cordons thrown up over night without announcement indicate that there are far more suspect and probable cases than previously suspected. Done to eliminate as many runners as possible.
For a photo slide show of the initial cordon see:
ee http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/aug/20/photographing-an-ebola-riot-put-your-fear-aside/
Errata: ... whatever fresh food they good afford.
Should read... whatever fresh food they could afford.
No space between dwellings. No sanitation. No fresh water.
Just one ebola case in that turns into (insert population of that slum) cases within several months.
It will be horrific if there’s ebola in there. Horrific.
There is bound to be a quarantine breakout. Only one street, United Nations Drive, separates West Point from the rest of Monrovia. Only a matter of time before those 70,000+ people come rushing across the street.
Greta just reported that there are new Ebola cases ..... the spouses of the medical workers who treated Patrick Sawyer & became infected.
The West Point situation is going to be horrific for those poor people before it’s over ... if it’s not already.
The army was using live ammo yesterday. One kid was already killed (they shot off his foot essentially and he bled out).
We’ll see who has greater resolve.
Personally I look for an ‘accidental’ fire to start in there.
The government can’t handle the thousands of ebola cases that will result from it being in there. Just a few hundred in Monrovia have crashed the healthcare system there. They know they can’t handle thousands.
I’m a professed cynic. But Liberia does have a history of massive brutality:
If I recall, Jesse Jackson and many black caucus members had unsavory ties to former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
That’s not a surprise actually.
And I wouldn't blame them either, as I sure as heck wouldn't want to be trapped in a plague zone against my will either.
I think the Time author may be including the other non-West Point area of Liberia that is under quarantine. I can’t remember the name. Can you help me out with that?
‘Dolo Town’ is the other quarantined slum.
From what I’ve read, the virus is still in a mans semen for up to 7 weeks after getting over it.
2003 FR thread.
Jesse, Liberia and Blood Diamonds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952419/posts
Ok. I knew he was a scumbag but had no idea he was more than an average grifter/guilt tripper.
I was thinking 60 days or until the semen tests free of the virus. I had a link, but when I went to verify the info, it had been updated (due to the present outbreak) & that info was no longer on it, which I find ‘interesting’.
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