Shepherd Of The Gurneys: Disasterpiece Theater

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Disasterpiece Theater

I told you earlier that NGOs, WHO, and the CDC had basically written off Sierra Leone three weeks ago, admitting they could never get ahead of the outbreak, and making the decision to distribute home health care kits ("Family Ebola-Spreading Kits") because they'd never be able to create enough treatment centers to accommodate and isolate the victims.

Now, a representative of MSF/DWB is saying there are more dead just in Sierra Leone, than the current reported total of Ebola deaths worldwide.
(For reference, Sierra Leone currently reports 1500 deaths, and the world case total is 13,703.)

Barcelona (AFP) - Ebola has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone and may have caused many more deaths than the nearly 5,000 official global toll, a senior coordinator of the medical aid group MSF said Friday.

Rony Zachariah of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said after visiting Sierra Leone that the Ebola figures were "under-reported", in an interview with AFP on the sidelines of a medical conference in Barcelona.

"The situation is catastrophic. There are several villages and communities that have been basically wiped out. In one of the villages I went to, there were 40 inhabitants and 39 died," he said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) published revised figures on Friday showing 4,951 people have died of Ebola and there was a total of 13,567 reported cases.

"The WHO says there is a correction factor of 2.5, so maybe it is 2.5 times higher and maybe that is not far from the truth. It could be 10,000, 15,000 or 20,000," said Zachariah.

He stressed that "whole communities have disappeared but many of them are not in the statistics. The situation on the ground is actually much worse."

"Whole communities have disappeared..."

We're not going to stop Ebola over there. The possibility is long past. That option is toast. And very shortly, the afflicted countries will be too.

2 comments:

UnknownNovember 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM
Dead folks fall apart, they are distasteful to handle and are very, very dangerous with Ebola.
This to me means they either are dumped and hidden, bulldozed under, cremated or left where they fall.
The counting is probably a matter of counting the skulls and hip bones (heads and asses).
If it was my job to do a head count I would not spend time making sure it was accurate I'd spend my time making sure I didn't join the dead.
After so many corpses are left lying about a D-9 works better than any calculator.
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Beyond AnonNovember 1, 2014 at 11:46 AM
spend my time making sure I didn't join the dead.

Which means getting the fuck out of Dodge! (Or Dallas, or Monrovia, Conarky, ...)
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