masukuma wrote:AlphDoti wrote:I respect you for that @macabbage. I remember your sober stand on the Gaza issue, when others here were saying the kids must be wiped out because "
the real inhabitants dinosaurs before the religious books were written" were back
indeed these are real people... just like you and me. the only reason you are here and they are there is the accident of birth. They have kids just like you do. they have relatives like you do. Brothers and sisters. They grieve like you do but multiple time when their whole family is cleared.
some of these images are heart breaking
What would you do as a father if your son/daughter started exhibiting symptoms? how would you feel if you took them to a hospital and you were turned back? What happens if people who really wanted to help could not come in to help build hospitals and stuff like that that would make your son/daughter have higher chances of survival? Empathetically place yourself in their shoes. I personally know someone who got Ebola.... He survived but his 4 of his relatives (mother and brothers) died. they are real people.
The West African people have been living with this problem for close to three months now. It is a pandemic. It is global disaster in waiting! Everyone is potential victim!!!
There is a need to encourage further education, to inform people more about the mounting disaster! We should debate things in an open mind, because nothing is impossible!
If we notice some smoke somewhere, then let us check and analyze soberly if there is fire or not. But trying to cover up stuff, or help a possible oppressor is making ourselves worse than the oppressor!
We owe the West African people more than that. We owe them a true fight on this disease.