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2014-08-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Liberian Mob Destroys Ebola Center Two Days After It Opens

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "The police were there but they couldn't contain them. They started threatening the police, so the police just looked at them," she said. And then mob left with all of the patients.

Another Ferguson moment.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-18 01:05|| 2014-08-18 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, well, too bad.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-18 01:59|| 2014-08-18 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Pretty soon they will start using zombie movies as educational material for the security forces when this gets really ugly.

Posted by phil_b 2014-08-18 02:43|| 2014-08-18 02:43|| Front Page Top

#4 It is already, really ugly. Pull the aid workers and medical staff out and sanitize the whole place. Cauterize it. Ruthless for sure, but this is way out of control.

Posted by Sonny Glarong6820 2014-08-18 02:55|| 2014-08-18 02:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Why aren't we sending more precious vaccine, again? They're apparently Democrats.

Posted by Bobby 2014-08-18 07:55|| 2014-08-18 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Cain't send no precious vaccine, cuz no such thang.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-18 13:11|| 2014-08-18 13:11|| Front Page Top

#7 You reap what you sow.

Sorry guys, you are well and truly fucked now. Enjoy your plague.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-08-18 14:53|| 2014-08-18 14:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Liberia was a white man's epic fail concept from the beginning. Virtually impossible to rid yourself of cheap labor. Probably be learning a lot more about 'cheap labor' this week.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-18 16:08|| 2014-08-18 16:08|| Front Page Top

#9 "Who'd 'a thunk they had truthers...."

Thanks to Charles Taylor et al, an entire generation didn't have a chance to get even the rudimentary education available in Africa. Schools were shut down for over ten years and all the infrastructure was destroyed. Warlords forced villagers off their land, and a whole generation didn't learn how to farm, either.

The myth has spread, even among educated Africans, that AIDS and Ebola come from the West. "We didn't have big outbreaks before, so it's not native." This an example of a post-hoc fallacy; but there is one small element of truth in it. Before urbanization, a disease might wipe out an isolated village, but would then stop. With urbanization, diseases that once burned themselves out in a small area now can infect millions because of travel and crowded conditions.

Posted by mom 2014-08-18 16:53|| 2014-08-18 16:53|| Front Page Top

#10 All evil and misfortune that befalls Africa has originated in the West. I thought everyone knew that.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-18 16:58|| 2014-08-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Really, 150 latex gloves? I have more in my workshop, and rarely work with anything I need protection from. This isn't because they're poor, this is because a bunch people are pocketing the money intended for these clinics.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-08-18 19:10|| 2014-08-18 19:10|| Front Page Top

#12 I've heard nothing bad about the MSF clinics, but despite anti-corruption campaigns, I'd bet that Rob is correct and various people "ate the money" that was supposed to go to gov't clinic supplies over the years. There are dedicated people working there, but it's an uphill struggle.

The fear of killers stealing body parts for magic has always been greater than the actual incidence of it, but it has happened from time to time--allegedly sometimes with high officials involved.

And there's a bit of history with district officials, who given license to impress locals into road building projects, impressed them into working on their own farms instead.

Not trusting authorities can run pretty deep there.

I don't give up hope, though. Things used to get pretty weird in England, too.

My father is buried there, Sonny. You might say we have a few ties to the area.

Posted by James 2014-08-18 21:08|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2014-08-18 21:08|| Front Page Top

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