Posted on 09/09/2014 9:43:49 AM PDT by Qiviut
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*ping* to this article. It has some good details as to the care Ebola victims receive here as opposed to in Africa, thus the much higher chance of survival.
Yep. It all depends on where you live.
Liberia has very brave taxi drivers.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The Dark Continent indeed.
Easy when it's just 3 patients. What if there are 3000, with thousands more at the front door?
Maybe Obama will send beds
I think it’s easy to focus on the conditions in which they live and not on the fact that they are fellow human beings in dire distress and need, regardless of living conditions.
To be somewhat hyperbolic - in a hypothetical nation where so many children are dying of starvation, a couple hundred dying of a disease is not all that impactive. In Beverly Hills it would be a MUCH bigger deal.
Look at how many died of Malaria because we stopped using DDT.
But all that said, I think it was a USSR leader that said one death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Fact is, every death is a single death. And a family is usually impacted. That is never good. But in a world where the average lifespan is 30, an ebola death is, even at the individual level, percieved differently than it is in an affluent western city.
I was amazed, when watching Black Hawk Down, how the “skinnies” would rush the helecopter until the Americans ran out of bullets to pump into them. They were like ants, with almost no regard for their own individual life.
I agree with that to a certain extent. The continent has essentially failed itself over the centuries though.
Africa is a basket case. It didn’t have to be this dire there.
Perhaps I’m off base, but it seems to me what is taking place in Africa could have been avoided, if only the people there were more capable of making better choices.
People in the Western world weren’t born with a spoon in their mouths. They had to work and scrape and create the nation we have today. Why didn’t that take place in Africa?
” Why didnt that take place in Africa?”
Just asking that question makes you a racist.
I don’t disagree with anything either of you are saying and to tell the truth, I keep having to remind myself that they ARE human beings, regardless of their circumstances and ALL the reasons for those circumstances, including human failings. The other thought that occurs .... “there but for the Grace of God go I” .... very fortunate that my parents were here in America when I was born (grand or great grandparents were immigrants) ... or I might be driving frantically around in a taxi, looking for help for my Ebola-stricken family.
You’ve got Ebola in Liberia?
I’m sorry... you gonna die.
If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola. Period.
Sort of “always in the moment” forever, purely a life of the physical, eat, sleep, sex, fight, exist, over and over, for thousands, and thousands, and thousands, of years.
Oh, not beds, the US military. This should actually be done by the UN but I doubt they would know how to handle a continental crises. Could always call the people who were in charge during Katrina. Oh wait, they probably already know to do nothing.
Gee whiz; Maybe some of these Pollyannas finally found a dictionary and a spreadsheet tool.
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