Posted on 10/08/2014 5:52:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Last month, the United Nations announced it would need nearly $1 billion to effectively fight the virus, which has killed more than 3,400 people across West Africa since March. If it is not contained, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there could be hundreds of thousands of Ebola cases in coming months.
"Every day we delay, the cost and the suffering will grow exponentially," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said at the time.
The United States and other governments have pledged tens of millions of dollars to pay for everything from medicine and protective clothing for aid workers to safe burials for the deceased. Yet individual and corporate donations to support Ebola response efforts are lagging far behind the funds given in the aftermath of natural disasters, such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti or last year's typhoon in the Philippines.
Four major U.S. aid organizations surveyed by CNNMoney have received a combined total of $19.5 million so far, much of which came from nonprofit foundations as opposed to individual donors....
... Yet unlike natural disasters, aid groups say they need to raise even more resources to help stop the Ebola epidemic from getting even worse.....
..."How do I quantify that and explain to the American people in the same way I can show a building here today and gone tomorrow?" she said. So far, the fund has received a mere fraction of the $74.5 million it received in the wake of the Haiti earthquake....
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
“hey Moitle, dah stinky bums at dah UN are askin’ fo’ money, agin’!”
Myrtle replies: “Didn’t we give them money last year?”
How about the hundreds of thousands that this liar from Liberia has cost US taxpayers? That is our unwilling donation.
You may not know how accurate you are with that portion of your comment. I am on a board of a social service group. BTW, no one is paid nor do they derive any financial or other benefits from our activities. That said, the biggest problem over the past few years is raising money for our causes. Why? simply because the plethora of groups raising money for their separate causes has so exploded in numbers as to drive out any of those on the periphery. In my community it is not uncommon to see 2-4 fundraisers each weekend. People are tapped out but the clamor to raise more money continues. Everyone has an idea for finding OPM, other peoples money: golf tournaments, Galas, raffles, bake sales, Skeet shooting, straight donations etc. Some events are even losing money but the clamor continues. In our organization, fund raising has reached mania proportions and I know we are not alone.
” So, Ebola is caused by lack of funding? ”
Apparently global warming and racism are contributors, too.
But... what about obamacare?
We pay the UN Hundreds of millions every year so the World Health Organization is there to deal with these kinds of crises.
Yeah, I’ll get righ on this just like I was all over the Haiti thing. \sarc
Let them shake down the Saudis and the ChiComs — those bastards took America’s money already
***NEWS FLASH***
Americans are broke!
I believe that’s one of the reasons that Satan and his minions on the left hate and attack the free enterprise system -
it affords the ability of a Christian nation to help the rest of the world and to spread the Good News.
No doubt Mandela’s South Africa paradise will leap in with millions in aid.
And Casto’s Cuban super-duper medical pros must be flying in to save the day any minute now.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Let the good liberals donate. They barely do anyway.
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...
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