Ebola outbreak: Guinea health team killed

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29256443

Eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes and clubs in Guinea, officials say.

Some of the bodies - of health workers, local officials and journalists - were found in a septic tank in a village school near the city of Nzerekore.

Correspondents say many villagers are suspicious of official attempts to combat the disease.
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This is very sad, they are killing the few people that can actually help them. I was surprised to hear how few doctors these countries actually have, liberia has 51 doctors and Somalia only 11!
 
It's not just in Africa where these sort of views exist.

My sister lives where quite a few Africans live with hardly any in work and she's told me that she's always hearing them spouting off about Ebola being our fault as they wait for the kids to come out of school.
One of the English mothers said to one how awful it was, and 3 of them started shouting that we'd invented it and everybody knows why.
She told me she's sick to the back teeth of listening to ignorant Africans who believe in sorcery and witchcraft, one told her slavery in this country should be made legal because it's fine.

"It's the white mans way of controlling us" they say whilst claiming council houses and every benefit they can get their hands on.

You really can't change these views as they are too far entrenched.

Because of this constant arguing the white mothers all tend to keep together with the Africans at the other side of the road, multiculturalism is not working.
 
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OldCoals said:
If they don't want help leave them to it.
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I would agree with this...

...If there was a practical way to effectively quarantine the outbreak areas and leave them to sort it out themselves.

However unfortunately there isn't so we're forced to try and help the ignorant **** to prevent them spreading it :(
 
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Very sad, but I have some empathy with the Africans. It must be terrifying to live with the threat of Ebola, and is some of these places the level of education isn't too good so they probably don't know about viruses etc. Also, those uniforms the medical teams wear I think look really, really scary. Basically more education is needed.
 
Haggisman said:
I would agree with this...

...If there was a practical way to effectively quarantine the outbreak areas and live them to sort it out themselves.

However unfortunately there isn't so we're forced to try and help the ignorant **** to prevent them spreading it :(
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Yes, his view is moronic. Firstly, those people are human beings whether you, oldcoals, like it or not. Secondly, if we don't contain the spread of the disease, then it will begin to impact populations outside of Africa, and England could be one of them, so it is very much in our interest to help them.

However, the humanitarian factor is sufficient reason.
 
Up until now every other ebola outbreak has burnt itself out pretty quickly, the time that the world decides it needs to get involved and it's motoring along nicely.
You cannot help people who don't want to be helped, this is the same for pretty much anything.
 
John40 said:
It's not just in Africa where these sort of views exist.

My sister lives where quite a few Africans live with hardly any in work and she's told me that she's always hearing them spouting off about Ebola being our fault as they wait for the kids to come out of school.
One of the English mothers said to one how awful it was, and 3 of them started shouting that we'd invented it and everybody knows why.
She told me she's sick to the back teeth of listening to ignorant Africans who believe in sorcery and witchcraft, one told her slavery in this country should be made legal because it's fine.

"It's the white mans way of controlling us" they say whilst claiming council houses and every benefit they can get their hands on.

You really can't change these views as they are too far entrenched.

Because of this constant arguing the white mothers all tend to keep together with the Africans at the other side of the road, multiculturalism is not working.
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Hmm.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Yes, his view is moronic. Firstly, those people are human beings whether you, oldcoals, like it or not. Secondly, if we don't contain the spread of the disease, then it will begin to impact populations outside of Africa, and England could be one of them, so it is very much in our interest to help them.

However, the humanitarian factor is sufficient reason.
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These people have displayed (quite violently) that they don't want to be helped.

Is it "humanitarian" to continue to send people to try and help them only for them to be massacred?

Why are the lives of these villagers more important than those of the people trying to help them?
 
Haggisman said:
These people have displayed (quite violently) that they don't want to be helped.

Is it "humanitarian" to continue to send people to try and help them only for them to be massacred?

Why are the lives of these villagers more important than those of the people trying to help them?
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Perhaps they should be educated, then. Do you give up on people just like that? The lives of the villagers aren't more important, but there are a lot of them who deserve to live as much as ANYONE else does.
 
You can't educate someone who doesn't want to be educated and who if you try hacks you up with a machete and throws your remains in to an excrement filled pit.
 
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