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Ebola outbreak declared global health emergency
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern". The move may encourage wealthy donor countries to provide more cash.
But the WHO stopped short of saying borders should be closed, saying the risk of the disease spreading outside the region was not high.
The outbreak in DR Congo has killed more than 1,600 people. This week, the first case was detected in Goma, home to more than a million. The PHEIC emergency provision is the highest level of alarm the WHO can sound and has only been used four times previously. This includes the Ebola epidemic that devastated parts of West Africa from 2014 to 2016, and killed more than 11,000 people.
"It is time for the world to take notice," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday at which the emergency was declared. He said he accepted recommendations there should be no restrictions on travel or trade, and no entry screening of passengers at ports or airports outside the immediate region.
"While it does not change the reality on the ground for victims or partners engaged in the response, we hope it will bring the international attention that this crisis deserves," it said in a statement.
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak an International Emergency
From WHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergency
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the nearly year-long Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
The outbreak was declared on August 1, 2018 and has tallied 2,512 cases and 1,676 deaths. So far, it's centered in the DRC's North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which are on the eastern side of the country bordering South Sudan, Uganda, and Rwanda.
The declaration Wednesday follows the spread of Ebola to Goma, a DRC city of nearly 2 million people at the border with Rwanda that acts as hub of regional transportation. On Sunday, health workers there confirmed the city's first case in a 47-year-old pastor who had just arrived from Butembo, a DRC city that has struggled with the outbreak since last December.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies welcomed the move.
Previously: Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:25PM (44 children)
One or more moderators may say that XivLacuna posted flamebait. I disagree, and strongly. Parent stated facts, then offered an opinion regarding those facts. The opinion is rational. Ebola is a serious threat, and those countries fighting it should be quarantined. AFTER an airliner full of passengers has spread the disease around the world, is awfully late to impose a quarantine.
Liars. The reason the borders aren't closed, is someone's profit. You can't smuggle contraband when the borders are closed, and the closure is enforced.
(Score: 4, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:29PM (23 children)
Borders being closed are literally the time when people smuggle the most. What is wrong with your brain?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:37PM (22 children)
I said "enforced", as in, troops at the border. It may or may not be necessary to shoot to kill to stop border jumpers, but the troops will stop you, one way or the other. A rational human will decide that it's just too risky to try, and irrational humans can face the consequences of their irrationality.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:50PM (17 children)
Okay, so your idea is to put soldiers across the entire extent of the Congolese border with the abstract aim of preventing deaths from quarantine risk, during an active civil war, when professional epidemiologists believe even basic closures are unnecessary?
It seems like every aspect of your approach is designed to achieve negative results. I mean I get that you're a fucking monster, but goddamn you're also stupid.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:57PM (15 children)
Tell me how stupid I am when a Boeing drops passengers infected with Ebola in a dozen major cities around the world. Tell me then who the monsters are.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by ikanreed on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:05PM (12 children)
"Imagine this actually quite tame hypothetical scenario I invented, now is that worse than the very real concentration camps I openly support?"
Fuck you. I hope to god there's a day when you pay for your crimes.
I could explain to you how wrong your view of Ebola transmission and control is, based on the science, but what the fuck is the point of facts to someone with no conscience?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:18PM (11 children)
Only the most ignorant, least informed people on earth can seriously consider the camps on our border as concentration camps. At Dachau, Jews checked in, but never checked out. On our border, brown people check in, and are eventually shipped south, or sent out into the US, with a court date. If you progressives would grow the fuck up, you would be so much easier to talk to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:27PM
Actually only the most ignorant and hateful people agree with you. Reality, once again your nemesis.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:57PM (6 children)
Or die in custody due to inadequate levels of housing and medical care being given to the prisoners (who should be regarded as detainees but are treated as prisoners...) because of a number of factors including that the detention facilities are being run by for-profit companies and that the notion that enforcement should be stepped up without allowing for sufficient budget to care for those enforced upon. If you would open your eyes and see that these are human beings, no matter their circumstances, and are being treated as livestock, you would be so much easier to talk to.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:03PM
"Then they shouldn't have come over illegally, they are criminals!"
How the wheels of suppressed racism turn :/
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:54PM
The racism in the conservative bubble isn't a bug, it's a feature.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:53PM (3 children)
So, uhhhhhhmmmmm, we should have been prepared for this invasion, by having millions of air conditioned homes available for them? Treated as livestock? Let me tune up the world's smallest violin, and I'll play them a tune. We owe those people nothing. Just as I owe a trespasser on my land nothing, we owe those people nothing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:49PM (1 child)
If you detain someone then yes, you owe them humanitarian conditions. You are a terrible person. Like irredeemable at this point.
Did you just do a search/replace of "good" and "evil" in your brain? Humanity is one big family, but I guess that doesn't pass your tribal nature. I'll get a good laugh next time you accuse someone of identity / tribal politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:26AM
It's a guilty conscience. He knows what whites have done to the rest of the world, and now he's afraid of it happening to him to the point refugees the US itself is responsible for creating become an "invasion" by "military age males."
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday July 18 2019, @09:17PM
As I said, if you would see them as human beings conversation could be easier. May you never collapse on somebody else's land (or in public) and they look at you and say, "I owe you nothing. Die."
But the better reason is this: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Dostoyevsky.
This sig for rent.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:07PM (2 children)
ItS OnLy WrONg WiTh GenOcIdE *herp derp*
I think at this point we need to quarantine all Republicans in such camps until we get the country back on track.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:55PM (1 child)
FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:30AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Friday July 19 2019, @07:22AM
How stupid you are? Trump level stupid.
Have you any idea how big DRC is? How big the border is? You do realise a large part of the boarder is impassable jungle?
If you put a guard every 100M, how many guards would you need? with a supervisor to every 12 guards, and a manager
to each 12 supervisors, and then cooks, cleaners, transport staff? Logistical managers, military police, etc.
In a country where the army is not in control of the country due to the civil war?
What makes you think that the boarder guards won't be shot by the various parties to the civil war? Or die of Ebola on the job?
That is just the DRC. You were talking about Africa as a whole. Think about trying to do this to the whole of South America - then double it.
Are you nuts? on a scale of 0 -10, you are at 11.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @08:22AM
OK, if you insist! Runaway1956, you are really, really stupid. You are profoundly stupid. As 孔子 said,
http://ly.exuezhe.com/Chapter/SearchResultChapterContent?id=5&chapterId=5.21&query=%E9%82%A6&pageIndex=1&pageSize=10 [exuezhe.com]
America is in disorder, and none can equal your stupidity, Runaway1956. I hope you are proud of yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:11PM
Not "also"! It's Runaway's primary personality trait!
(Score: 5, Informative) by deimtee on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:01PM (3 children)
The DRC land border is 10480 km (6512.5 miles) long. Be a hell of a job to fully close that.
source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-countries-border-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo.html [worldatlas.com]
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:40PM
The subject of the thread is not "Quarantine DRC" but "Quarantine Africa".
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rivenaleem on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:56PM
We need to get our finest mind on the case. Paging @realDonaldTrump
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:18PM
It shouldn't be that hard; just build a wall. I'm sure Mexico will pay for it.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:51PM (17 children)
What, flamebait?
I mean, all he did was advocate for the murder of civilians based solely on their national origin!
Some rigtwingers have been committing acts of terrorism. If I were to call for your murder because of that you'd probably consider it flamebait. (Although, maybe you wouldn't, you did call for MY murder in one of your journals)
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:46PM (16 children)
I called for your murder? Really? You'll have to point that out. If you're talking about that post that 'Zumi goes on about, then you'll recall that I predicated the call for liberal deaths with a civil war. Call a spade a spade - if/when the left launches a civil war because they disapprove of the lawfully elected president, then piles of bodies in the streets are the expected result.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:55PM (15 children)
So you said something else before you called for my murder. That makes it so much better!
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:20PM (14 children)
Are you advocating for a civil war, and the removal of the lawfully elected government? Are you one of those who wants to usurp the power and authorities of the President of the United States? You do realize that the term to describe that is "treason".
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:32PM
Nope, once again you are describing your own actions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:16PM (12 children)
Just calling for the legal removal of a legally elected POTUS. It's called "impeachment". If you illegally oppose the same, who is the traitor now? "Runaway Back!"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:21PM (11 children)
Based on what high crime or misdemeanor?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:33PM (6 children)
Yes, all of them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:44PM (5 children)
"I don't like the man" is not an impeachable offense.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @07:31AM
Emoluments Clause by itself is enough. Perjury, a la Clinton, is good too. Sex Trafficking of minors? Higher Education fraud. Obstruction of justice. Collusion with foreign powers. Tax evasion. Small hands. Nepotism. Defamation of sitting members of Congress. Putting armor on the Washington Mall. Yeah, don't like him. Because of the High Crimes and Misdemeanors!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 19 2019, @11:56AM (3 children)
Oh go to Hell and this time STAY there until this whole plague of humans blows over. His crimes are well-known and have been listed by, among other people, the AC directly below you. Mueller only did not go after him because precedent (not law, apparently...?) forbids prosecuting a sitting president. What a shitshow.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 19 2019, @02:37PM (2 children)
You gotta remember something though. Before being convicted, you'll have to PROVE one or more of those charges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @11:04PM (1 child)
You are such a worm.
May everyone on this site forever remember what hides in that rotting heart of yours. You don't even have the excuse of ignorance, you've had reality explained to you countless times on this site alone.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 19 2019, @11:18PM
Keep explaining your version of "reality". If senility ever catches up to me, I may be prescribed some drugs good enough to convince me that you know what you are talking about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @01:28PM (3 children)
1. For starters, there's obstruction of justice (and secondarily conspiracy to obstruct justice) clearly laid out in the Mueller report (and played out on national television), that's a high crime.
2. Next there's conspiring with a foreign government ("Russia, if you're listening...") although the Mueller report says there's insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy (but not no evidence, let's be clear). That's another high crime.
3. Next there's using campaign funds to make hush money payments to pornstars regarding affairs. Campaign finance violations are fairly serious crimes too.
4. I suppose the inciting violence at his early rallies can be treated as either a high crime or a misdemeanor, whichever you prefer.
These are just the ones that came to me off the top of my head.
Shall we go through the trouble of researching for even more? Or should we hold him to at least a tenth of the strict standard that you would hold a democrat to?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 19 2019, @02:43PM (2 children)
By all means, hold him to the strict standards that I would hold a Democrat to. Teflon Bill, for instance? I never gave the smallest of damns whether he got a blow job in the White House, or not. Nor did I care that he may have lied about getting a blowjob. I didn't even care that he doubled down on his lie about a blowjob, again and again. That was all meaningless bullshit - he knew it, I knew it, the R's knew it, the D's knew it. About the only people who took it seriously, were the morons in the media. Kenneth Starr should have been brought up on charges for squandering multiple fortunes on an investigation over meaningless bullshit.
What pissed me off about the entire affair are the charges that were never discussed, let alone made against him. Treason. Bill should have gone to prison for selling military technology to the Chinese.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @06:16PM (1 child)
Who's "Bill"? Why are you talking about him?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @11:06PM
Oh that is easy, Bill is one of those Buttery Males that Runaway was repeatedly told to look for.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:34PM (1 child)
Context, Al. Based on his previous history, his post could be accurately translated as "this is the opportunity I've been waiting for to finally commit genocide and wipe all the Africans [NB: he's not going to use the word "Africans" here...] off the face of the earth like the vermin I believe them to be."
THAT is why he gets marked Flamebait. People like him just LOVE opportunities like this where they can spread their tiny cheetos-dust-and-semen-caked hands in a gesture of offended innocence and whine about how they're being "censored" for "stating facts" and "being rational."
I can't tell if they truly think everyone else is dumb enough to fall for that shit, or just so contemptuous of decent people that they know we won't and don't give a shit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @11:09PM
Glad you found the fortitude to continue edumacatin' these varmints ;)