Thoughts Out Of Season

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.