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It's not just the medical infrastructure. Most of the locals don't have even the most basic understanding of disease. They don't understand not touching ebola
by harshreality 12y ago
It's not just the medical infrastructure. Most of the locals don't have even the most basic understanding of disease. They don't understand not touching ebola victims. They don't understand not removing infectious ebola victims from treatment/containment and taking them to local healers.
Even the foreign aid medical infrastructure is inadequate, not enough resources and too overworked to maintain proper isolation protocol, hence all the foreign aid workers getting infected.
- crassus2 12y agoThis sounds like something that could be taught in a 30 minute lesson. What's the problem?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoTrust. Think about how many folk in Europe or the US are against vaccination, or think that big pharma is trying to wipe out everyone. Now consider how many people are of those opinions in areas that have historically been governed by unbelievably brutal European empires that treated people living there like livestock.
- CDRdude 12y agoSome people there don't even believe that Ebola is real.
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- discodave 12y agoRemember that some of these people never went to school, do not trust westerners, believe in witchdoctors etc.
- soperj 12y agoSounds like a great idea until you realize that they think you're bringing the disease, not helping.
- Someone1234 12y agoIt is something someone could teach YOU in a 30 minute lesson. That's because you're taking for granted a lot of "obvious" things which aren't actually that obvious.
- tomjen3 12y agoIt is actually scary how unenformed they are, but on a certain level it makes sense. You have some people who get sick, but people get sick from time to time and they don't feel much worse than they normally do. Then space aliens come and take them away and they never get any healthier. I strongly suspect that a lot more people survive ebola than we hear about because they stay hidden at home with only the hardedst hit cases risk going to the hospital.
- Crito 12y agoMy understanding is that the disease was already wiping out entire families before authorities recognized what was going on and sent in the space aliens. Patient Zero for this outbreak is thought to have died in December of 2013. Local authorities didn't recognize an outbreak of something until mid-March, and it was't until late March that WHO started sending people in. By that time there were already 70 dead. So it is more like "Year after year, you have some people get sick, some die, some live. One day somebody gets sick and dies fast and painfully. A few weeks later the rest of their tribe/family is dead or dying. A few weeks after that, the space aliens start coming in, but people continue to die."