"It’s a phenomenon O’Sullivan witnessed firsthand in Sierra Leone. “People have no idea how infectious diseases work. They see people go into the hospital sick and come out dead—or never come out at all,” he says. “They think if they can avoid the hospital they can survive.” This mistrust of the medical world seems to be validated when a family is prohibited from honoring the dead, participating in the funeral, or even seeing the body."
Uh....so maybe they should stop that?
Pretty much everything they do in Africa is wrong. And it’s always been that way. Not likely to change any time soon.
So it’s spreading like wildfire. Big frickin’ deal. Another media scare to exploit for news ratings. Hype masquerading as real news. Like everything in the mainstream media it is lies. Worldwide, deaths have been less than 1000 in the latest outbreak. That is less than a fraction of a percent of the world’s population. Some of those deaths are weak people that would have died of something else anyway.
There is more death in Iraq in one day than all of Ebola in its entire history. The only thing we have to fear is fear, and the media specializes in fear. We aren’t afraid of Islam because they say it can’t harm us, and we are Islamophobic if we think it will. But SARS, avian flu, swine flu, hantavirus and Ebola are real threats because they kill a thousand people... in Africa. They need to scare us with Ebola so they won’t have to fill any of their 30 minutes with actual scary stuff like people getting their heads cut off or women being stoned to death or 500 people being buried alive.
I’m frickin tired of hearing about Ebola.
I would think that even a naked savage would understand when told that if you touch the sick or dead you will DIE.
Ignorance in that part if the world is astounding. In S Africa, tho not reported, having sex with a girl of 6 years would cure aids. Heard that first hand in a coffee shop in Durban. The person telling me this was dead serious.
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