The noose continues to tighten for Liberia, especially for the poor souls trapped in cordoned areas of West Point and Dolo in Monrovia.
"A source at the World Food Programme, which operates the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service flights, confirmed that its flights would be suspended until further notice. The daily regional service began on 16 Aug and three flights were due to leave from Dakar this week, a provisional schedule showed."
Bleedin’ plague ping
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...
These countries have been enabled by western do-gooders who took care of those who are ill but didn't demand that countries such as Liberia develop a capacity to take care of themselves. That's just wrong.
Humanity would've been better served if the people who were sent there were involved in training, not care. JMHO
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
If they could set up a border point with this simple rule: what goes out does not return. Strictly one-way. Then the supplies could be sent to the other side, and even some personnel, although they would be there for the duration.
As for flights in and out, the points of origin and stops would likely have to be in non-infected countries.
Still, with the devastating impact being added to the list of affected nations might have on fragile economies, they pretty much have to guard their population as best they can from people coming in.
I think they may be ignoring the economic impact of being a distribution hub for medical supplies, but that is just my opinion. It is their country.
Apart from that oversight, they're basically doing what we should be doing.