Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

WHO: Ebola Outlook Is ‘Bleak’

The World Health Organization has issued a very frightening report that basically says as worried as we’ve all been about Ebola in West Africa, things are much, much worse.

The report, which was co-authored by one of the scientists who discovered the disease, says containment efforts are simply inadequate and nothing in the planning stages will be able to realistically tackle the virus, which has already infected and killed thousands of victims.

The world community, in no uncertain terms, comes in for the lion’s share of blame, failing to respond to what an editorial in the same medical journal suggested was a containable crisis.

Instead, it’s possible that the outbreak could become endemic, meaning a long-term problem that poses a long-term threat to the rest of the world, to say nothing of the unfortunate people living in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

According to researchers, Ebola kills 70 percent of infected patients.

As I type this, the United States has begun bombing targets in Syria, at the cost of billions of dollars, in an effort to contain the threat posed by radical Islamic militants. Meanwhile, doctors are telling us that West Africa is about to become ground zero for a plague that could pose a much more pressing threat to the rest of the world for years to come.

Original Article
Source: truthdig.com/
Author: Peter Z. Scheer

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