Posted on 09/26/2014 3:29:50 PM PDT by dynachrome
Acknowledging that the Ebola epidemic sweeping Sierra Leone was worsening, officials here put hundreds of thousands more citizens under quarantine on Thursday, sealing off more than a quarter of the country and warning travelers not to get out of their vehicles in the districts under isolation.
Nearly all of the country’s 14 districts are now under either total or partial quarantine, with over one million people affected, as the disease advances into new areas. Infection rates have been rising in the capital, Freetown, a dangerous development because of the city’s density.
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Global Response to Ebola Is Too Slow, Obama WarnsSEPT. 25, 2014 In Liberia, Home Deaths Spread Circle of Ebola ContagionSEPT. 24, 2014 James Hamilton said of burying Ebola victims in Sierra Leone, “We will need much more space.”Fresh Graves Point to Undercount of Ebola Toll SEPT. 22, 2014 In an address to citizens late Wednesday night, President Ernest Bai Koroma acknowledged that the new quarantine orders would “definitely pose great difficulties for our people,” but he suggested that officials had little choice. Makeni, the largest city in the country’s Northern Province, is in one of the newly quarantined districts, and foreign health care workers are particularly worried about a surge in infections there.
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Well, the Liberians - to whom we have sent 3000 of our brightest and best - are saying that it’s all a US plot to stamp out Africans. Dealing with people like that, it’s hard to say anything.
“Dealing with people like that, it’s hard to say anything.”
How about goodbye?
BTTT!
It is tremendously difficult to grasp the incredible ignorance (or is it stupidity) of these people regarding Ebola. An American plot? Please, what utter nonsense. Americans as well as other people from the Western World are putting their own lives in danger to help out these people. What is their response? The savages attack and murder those trying to help. America trying to stamp out Africans? They are doing a fine job all on their own. I say leave them to their own devices and let the disease run it’s course. Seal the borders and let the savages die.
Amen to that. Should have been quarantined a long time ago.
Someone may proffer the same about you, some day.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
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