Thoughts Out Of Season

Please read the linked article which describes what's going on in Liberia during this Ebola epidemic . Hell on earth for these people http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12249

The Ebola Virus and its 90% mortality rate is engulfing Liberia like a tsunami. Circumstances have dealt the country a severe blow as it desperately tries to fight this ravaging disease. What little medical care that was present in the first place has all but disappeared with the deaths of many of the country's health care workers (in the best of times the doctor/patient ratio was 2 doctors/100,000 people). The stigma attached the relatives of those sickened by the disease has caused families to hold notification to authorities and secretly bury their dead and the ill advised quarantine of the entire city of West Point and its 50,000 residents has caused the sick and the well to mingle unabated spreading the disease like wildfire. I have said in prior posts that it was my belief that the current numbers being reported in the media were far below what was really happening, but now I'm sure of it. 

Liberia has quarentined 50,000 residents of its capital West Point region. These people are left to fend for themselves. No food, no water. This is one big reason I suspect many other villages, cities and towns are keeping mum about their diseased and dead. I said it before and I will say it sagain, watch for an "explosion" in numbers of people affected and dead in the comming weeks.

Liberia has gone back in time, back to the days of medieval times when due to the ravaging plague entire villages were quarantined, the people left to die, Anyone who tried to leave being immediately killed by guards whose job it was to ensure that not a person left the village alive to spread the dreaded plague throughout the surrounding countryside. As I said Liberia has gone back in time to such a state. Entire villages have been surrounded with the threat of instant death to anyone who dares try to leave. Inside these villages people are not only being sickened and dying from this dreaded disease but are being starved, dying of thirst' abandoned to die alone. One report detailed how a 12 year old girl was sealed in a house with her mother who had succumbed to the disease days before.Her cries for help were heard for days but no one dared try to help. Instead the remaining villergers picked up and fled. It was with luck that this occurred before the quarantine or the villagers w...

There hasn't been much in the way of increasing numbers lately regarding the spread of Ebola. But don't let that fool you into this thing has been controlled. Many people have caught the disease and died but their families have hidden the fact and buried the bodies secretly to avoid the the wrath of authorities, their neighbors and townspeople. Liberia is being decimated by this disease especially since most of its medical personnel have themselves been stricken leaving no one to care for new cases. So watch for an "explosion" of cases in the coming days.