Melodi
Disaster Cat
Doomer Doug said "snip...It is a fatal error for the West to have not responded with dozens of planeloads of medical supplies into Africa. The West and Europe are going to pay a brutal price for that failure. ...snip"
My husband told me last year (during class he was so appalled he typed me) that the official line offered in his medical school (the best in Ireland and one of the top ones in the West) was that "Third world countries don't really need supplies and help from the West, what they need is support and information..." or something like that, I'll ask him for the exact quote - it may even be in the bomb shelter somewhere because I think I posted it at the time.
On his first day of his second year (Monday) he called me and said, "remember that remark the teacher made in class about third world countries not needing medical supplies or Western practitioners to help during epidemics, well I now feel so VINDICATED because I was RIGHT and the teacher/Official Medical line, WAS WRONG!" So I gather they now admit they went way to PC and cocked up (after all we can't risk "shaming" people by suspecting they don't have enough money for supplies and/or corruption has destroyed what their is of their medical systems can we?); but I suspect it is too late for parts of West Africa even if they fly stuff in by the Cargo plane load - and who will they get to fly and unload the planes and what hospitals will be left to use it?
My husband told me last year (during class he was so appalled he typed me) that the official line offered in his medical school (the best in Ireland and one of the top ones in the West) was that "Third world countries don't really need supplies and help from the West, what they need is support and information..." or something like that, I'll ask him for the exact quote - it may even be in the bomb shelter somewhere because I think I posted it at the time.
On his first day of his second year (Monday) he called me and said, "remember that remark the teacher made in class about third world countries not needing medical supplies or Western practitioners to help during epidemics, well I now feel so VINDICATED because I was RIGHT and the teacher/Official Medical line, WAS WRONG!" So I gather they now admit they went way to PC and cocked up (after all we can't risk "shaming" people by suspecting they don't have enough money for supplies and/or corruption has destroyed what their is of their medical systems can we?); but I suspect it is too late for parts of West Africa even if they fly stuff in by the Cargo plane load - and who will they get to fly and unload the planes and what hospitals will be left to use it?