The Ebola Outbreak is Raging and No One Gives Enough Fucks
By Yojimbo Khan AKA Irate Menace
People, and the American Media in particular, ain't nearly vigilant nor worried enough about the status of the Ebola Outbreak, fam. The news cycle whores have moved on to juicier, hotter, more controversial stories (#Ferguson, #EricGarner), returning the average American to their default state of ignorance and apathy re: all things West Africa.
With media coverage down, all you can do is pray that momentum to contain the outbreak and turn the tide continues to build, lest we be dealin' with Ebola for the next decade. We ain't ones to play the fear factor, but you best believe that the longer it takes to contain the current outbreak, the greater risk we all be at to contracting the disease, tho an epidemic on American soil remains unlikely.
The experts agree that this shit is far from over. During last night's World Affairs Council panel in San Francisco, Jane Coyne, board member for Doctors Without Borders USA, warned that the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, is on the verge of a major Ebola explosion with new cases appearing at an increasing rate and somethin' like only 350 of the 1,200 promised treatment beds equipped to safely care for Ebola patients. Shit's fucked and is fittin' to get more fucked quick.
Freetown isn't the only place to be stressin' over. Panelist Dr. Alex Coutinho, director of Uganda's Infectious Diseases Institute from 2007-2014, expressed major concerns over loosening vigilance in Nigeria and Liberia, which seem to have turned a corner in combating the disease, but still remain totally susceptible to another Ebola surge all up in errryone's ass. They best protect they necks and step up their screening game like John Stockton and Kevin Malone on da' pick and roll.
The medical crisis is starting to radiate beyond Ebola and even beyond the health systems of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Guinea to compromise populations and systems with other afflictions. Dr. Coutinho talked at length about "the crises within the crises" besettin' Ebola-ravaged countries. With health systems collapsing under the stress of the Ebola outbreak, incidences of other diseases like malaria are on the rise.
Fear and panic might be the gravest virus infecting West African countries. Economies and education systems are shutting down with workers too afraid to show up to their jobs and parents terrified of sending their children to school. There's a pending food shortage with fields chillin' and no farmers to tend 'em. There's an education crisis with 5 million children not going to school. We're talking total societal collapse here—apocalyptic shit.
December 9, 2014 at 01:16PM
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