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I would just pull out and quarantine the area. It may sound heartless, but it's not worth the lives of others.
Very dumb to believe you can just let the virus spread and it won’t reach new regions. And once it spreads to non-African nations, it may find new animal hosts and become endemic in those new continents.
Once it starts killing white people it will turn out the cure is not that expensive after all.
I wish that were true, but whites love to rob each other over healthcare, at least in the United States. And more and more the upper classes seek to dismantle universal healthcare in the UK and Europe.
Don't be so pessimistic. They developed vaccines for Covid real fucking fast. Of course Americans weren't that interested in vaccines but in many European countries almost everyone got one for free.
that's the definition of pandemic.
That’s true, but most people associate that word with a mass disease outbreak (basically a synonym for plague), vs a disease that infects a small number of people in multiple places.
So we change medical terms based on most people making mistakes due to poor education?
The word encompasses both definitions. Language is about knowing word connotation. In English the word currently favors the “plague” connotation. Keep learning, though. Your English is really good.
How brave of you to suggest the world should once again turns their back on the African people. Ideas like that take true courage and wisdom. You are true a visionary speaking truth "just let 'em die". They are only Congolese, not like "others" that might have actual intrinsic value.
We're not the ones storming hospitals to retrieve contaminated corpses. We're not the ones burning down treatment centers.
How do you help those that don't want to be helped? Setting up a quarantine isn't turning your back. It's doing what you can with the tools you have to save those you can.
Turning your back would be to do nothing at all, and just let them keep spreading ebola.
I mean theyre burning down the clinics. Seems like they dont want the help.
If you do that, you force people to sneak out to save their lives, and it will leak out without anyone knowing until it pops up somewhere else.