I partly agree. I disagree that anything we can do now will make a difference in the outcome. IMO this outcome became inevitable weeks ago, perhaps several months ago. Liberia's culture and ensuing lack of transportation infrastructure made the place impervious to any major outside intervention.
The current Ebola outbreak might have been snuffed early, i.e., before the middle of July. That didn't happen and a worst case outcome, for Liberia, was set in a frighteningly small time period afterwards.
"A. What’s left of the medical infrastructure, already ineffective, will collapse. The pandemic will accelerate even more.B. As the pandemic accelerates, the people needed to keep basic infrastructure going will die. Water, sewer, and electricity will begin to fail. Food distribution will cease.
C. When this begins to happen the population will panic. As many as possible will flee. The process of overall collapse will accelerate.
D. Most of those who are unable to flee will eventually die. Some of those who are able to flee will carry the disease with them."
Actually we're probably 99% in agreement.
We're watching a train wreck in slow motion. The train has already left the tracks but most of the people on board are still alive.
We're standing, frozen in disbelief, right in front of the train. Thus far we have not even started to get out of the way.
I just read about the first case in a Liberian county. NINE of his family died earlier in the month, so he left home, and gt sick in Zwedru, Liberia. It looks like you are right about it being too late to change the course of it, at least in the countries affected in West Africa. I saw a time lapse video of airline travel - seems to be a lot from Africa to South America, but could be just a fluke of the video.