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EBOLA NIGHTMARE: 'The Entire City Is Covered With Bodies'
Yahoo/New York Times ^ | 10/16/14 | Ben Soloman

Posted on 10/16/2014 1:00:09 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Racing along cracked and bumpy roads here, Gordon Kamara shouted into his cellphone over the shrieking sirens of his ambulance. The phone had been ringing nonstop since 5 a.m.

“Not today! Not today!” Mr. Kamara, an ambulance nurse, yelled later in the day. “We are on the opposite side of town!”

The calls have all been the same in recent weeks: from friends, friends of friends, extended family, complete strangers. All of them have loved ones sick with Ebola and beg him to come quickly. Seven days a week, Mr. Kamara and his crew span Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, in a donated, old American ambulance — with California license plates still attached.

“It never stops,” said Mr. Kamara, getting another call the moment he hangs up.

The 15 or so ambulance teams bolting around the city have had many days of hard choices like this. Hundreds of new Ebola cases are reported each week in Monrovia, with many more never accounted for. And over the course of the epidemic, only a small percentage of them have ever made it to a hospital.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ebola
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I'm beginning to think the best way to stop this is just keep these people in and let it burn itself out. Sad, but there's a greater good here to think about.
1 posted on 10/16/2014 1:00:09 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

And Obama wants to send the National Guard into this?


2 posted on 10/16/2014 1:02:43 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I agree with your observation in post #1.

Should you have Christian and other charities wanting to go in there, if the UN wants to go in and not with us being the primary player, give these people resources then to do it.

It certainly is an ethical dilemma and I do wish to be Christian.


3 posted on 10/16/2014 1:04:12 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That’s how it was stopped before, it burnt itself out because it had no mode of transportation outside the towns where it had sprung.

We are spreading it. It should have been contained.


4 posted on 10/16/2014 1:04:18 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Any rational Liberian with a passport and a credit card would try to get to the West. Soon commercial air service will stop because the airports will be besieged by desperate people trying to get out.


5 posted on 10/16/2014 1:04:54 PM PDT by allendale
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To: TangledUpInBlue

According to the “official” statistics, some 4500 people have died of Ebola.

From the sounds of this story, there could be 4500 bodies lying on the ground in Monrovia just as I type this out.


6 posted on 10/16/2014 1:05:09 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

How come we never see photos of all these affected towns in West Africa?


7 posted on 10/16/2014 1:05:09 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That is the only way to stop it.


8 posted on 10/16/2014 1:05:29 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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There was a story posted about a person who died of ebola and their body remained in the street in that country over in Africa for a few days, that’s kind of scary stuff. Not only that, did vultures or dogs go after it? That’s kind of morbid but it makes me wonder.


9 posted on 10/16/2014 1:05:29 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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I'm beginning to think the best way to stop this is just keep these people in and let it burn itself out.

The ONLY solution may be the one in "The Hot Zone" - napalm the infected areas.

BTW, I'm not convinced that the kenayn usuper doesn't want to see similar scenes here.

10 posted on 10/16/2014 1:05:30 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: Truth29

Obummer hates the military, remember? What better way to give the finger to our troops than to send them into a ravished country! Can January 20, 2017 come faster! Please let Republicans pick Ted Cruz or Scott Walker to lead us! WE NEED TRUE LEADERSHIP! DEMONCRATS are KILLING us every day...


12 posted on 10/16/2014 1:06:16 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I feel for these people but I agree with you. Airdrop food water and supplies to those who survive and wait and see.


13 posted on 10/16/2014 1:06:37 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I understand sending the Seabees and Army engineers to build more treatment center. Watch this video and you’ll see how badly they’re needed. So I have mixed emotions about sending the military.

But those countries definitely need to be quarantined. Nobody out. Anyone who wants to go help must understand they may not come back for a long time. I really don’t know what else could be done.


14 posted on 10/16/2014 1:07:07 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

On a side note. Liberia, if I remember correctly, was founded by freed slaves from the US. Compare their living conditions to black people in the US.


15 posted on 10/16/2014 1:07:10 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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That was then. This is now. The WMD attack on the U.S.

Headline:

Obama C A T A P U L T - ing More Bodies Into U.S.
Obama's Coordinated Assault Targeting American People Using Lethal Terminal foreign citizens claims increasing number of victims

16 posted on 10/16/2014 1:07:25 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Did they just say Bloomfield restricted entry into NYC? Sounds like a good idea.


17 posted on 10/16/2014 1:07:41 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: TangledUpInBlue

But it’s not airborne.........................


18 posted on 10/16/2014 1:09:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: princess leah

I think you meant 'ravaged'................

19 posted on 10/16/2014 1:11:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: BeadCounter

The dogs and the vultures won’t eat infected flesh. Their instincts tell them not to.


20 posted on 10/16/2014 1:14:57 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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