MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD - 09/16/2014 - 09/30/2014

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naturallysweet

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Oh, don't worry. There's only about 20 or so of them - BUT, he DID have sex with his wife twice, his girl friend once (who is a hooker), went to 2 different Wal-Marts, 16 different public bathrooms, gassed up at 4 different gas stations, 5 ATMs, 3 different buffets, and opened 137 doors around the DFW metro area.


And he probably spent 8 hours in a busy hospital waiting room on the 26. His doctor probably touched him with his stethoscope, and did not disinfect it before going on to 20 more patients that day.
 

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Folks, I do not know if anyone caught the MINDSET of some of those with political power and who may have either power or influence to help shape the way, mindset and potentially cruel WAY that a really bad epidemic may "justify" some people's desire to DISMISS THE HUMANITY of those who have contracted the disease and potentially treat the SUFFERER THEMSELVES AS "THE ENEMY"!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-health-ebola-liberia-idUSKCN0HO28420140929
U.S. military to quickly ramp up Ebola mission in Liberia

By James Giahyue
MONROVIA Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:40pm EDT
Excerpt:

"As destructive as the Liberian Civil War was, at least our people knew the warring factions and the frontlines," Liberia's Foreign Affairs Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan told the U.N. General Assembly on Monday.

"With Ebola, the enemy is more insidious and there are no clear-cut frontlines because someone's child, someone's husband, someone's workmate could actually be the enemy and the frontline at the same time," he said.

Who can expect compassionate treatment from people who personify the sick person stricken with the disease as "the enemy"...who would want to go to a treatment center staffed by people with that mindset?
Is there a valid reason that the population fears and suspects the government and fears some Health care workers is that they may be (even unconsciously) looking at the sick as the enemy and conveying the message that the faster the sick can die...(one way or another) the faster the epidemic will be brought under control expediently?

It was extremely unhelpful to characterize the sick themselves, rather than the disease, as "The Enemy".
AND, do not think for a minute that American political, medical and military leaders and authorities are not susceptible to falling into this mindset which often precedes savage, cruel, "expedient" attempted solutions.
 
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