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Lucas
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ttompatz
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Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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It might be noted that a case of Ebola has jumped borders and been found in Lagos after a man took a flight in from an infected area (Lagos is a city from whence an international flight to most of the developed world is possible).
WHO is very worried about a pandemic.
Doctors Without Borders have declared the Ebola epidemic "out of control".
The World Health Organization's director-general Dr Margaret Chan, has said the Ebola outbreak is moving faster than efforts to control it and if it continues on this path, the consequences could be "catastrophic".
The current outbreak of Ebola is different from all previous outbreaks. In the past, Ebola infections happened in isolated rural areas of Central Africa, remote from the rest of the world. Ebola victims were not jet travelers and this deadly disease was only a distant nightmare, never a real threat to the international community.
This time, Ebola has killed more than 700 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The virus has the petrifying record of killing up to 90% of the people that it infects, even though the current outbreak so far has a mortality rate of 60%. There is no cure for Ebola. The disease has now reached major urban settings in West Africa. In the past few days, an Ebola victim died in Lagos after having taken an international flight. From Lagos, flights can reach all parts of the world. Even though still seen as highly unlikely, a world Ebola pandemic can no longer be ruled out.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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Here's an opposing view:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2993150
"Africa is 300 times bigger than Korea and 1.1 billion people live in its 54 countries. The African guests to the Korean conference - from Kenya, Ethiopia and Cameroon - come from areas far away from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the current outbreak is happening." |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Korea tends to be exempt from many disease outbreaks because their people don't associate with foreigners. Ebola requires actually touching a foreign person. |
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duhweecher
Joined: 06 Nov 2013
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Once I got to "bwcause" I realized the level of this newspaper. |
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tophatcat
Joined: 09 Aug 2006
Location: under the hat
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| I believe the contagious disease, tuberculosis, which is widespread in Korea, has been killing far more people than Ebola. |
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Nester Noodlemon
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Korea tends to be exempt from many disease outbreaks because their people don't associate with foreigners. Ebola requires actually touching a foreign person. |
Koreans eat Korean kimchi which tends to fight off many diseases (98.2%). However, better safe than sorry. No need taking that 1.8% risk. |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Hey maybe it's a good thing! I remember with H1N1/Swine Flu I got a whole week off work when I got back from a vacation because foreigners are unclean. Then I returned to bathrooms with no hot water or soap, people sharing food and dishes and students and co-teachers alike sneezing and coughing on each other. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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Choi said. "I live in Busan, and I feel rather lucky that there aren't many Africans living here. I will be moving to Germany soon, and I've heard that there are many Africans living there, which has me reconsidering my decision to study abroad.''
OK SR....interested in seeing how you spin this one? |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Choi said. "I live in Busan, and I feel rather lucky that there aren't many Africans living here. I will be moving to Germany soon, and I've heard that there are many Africans living there, which has me reconsidering my decision to study abroad.''
OK SR....interested in seeing how you spin this one? |
Hokie, he's busy right now arguing with BlackCat and byrddogs, but I'm sure he'll get around to this one. |
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lithium
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Choi said. "I live in Busan, and I feel rather lucky that there aren't many Africans living here. I will be moving to Germany soon, and I've heard that there are many Africans living there, which has me reconsidering my decision to study abroad.''
OK SR....interested in seeing how you spin this one? |
Must everything be viewed as pertaining to race? Could not this individual just be concerned about a disease spreading among the populace? |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| lithium wrote: |
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Choi said. "I live in Busan, and I feel rather lucky that there aren't many Africans living here. I will be moving to Germany soon, and I've heard that there are many Africans living there, which has me reconsidering my decision to study abroad.''
OK SR....interested in seeing how you spin this one? |
Must everything be viewed as pertaining to race? Could not this individual just be concerned about a disease spreading among the populace? |
You can either chalk this up to racism or extreme ignorance about Africa, it's countries and people. Either way, this is a quote from a supposedly well "educated" college student. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Hokie21 wrote: |
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Choi said. "I live in Busan, and I feel rather lucky that there aren't many Africans living here. I will be moving to Germany soon, and I've heard that there are many Africans living there, which has me reconsidering my decision to study abroad.''
OK SR....interested in seeing how you spin this one? |
Must everything be viewed as pertaining to race? Could not this individual just be concerned about a disease spreading among the populace? |
That's one person. Does he speak for all Koreans? Isn't that "one person or 1,000 infected is not everyone" kind of the point of our dismay at this kind of attitude? But just as Koreans seem to be thinking all Africans have ebola, some here are deciding that all Koreans have the bigotry and paranoia virus, seems here based off of a couple people in interviews.
You can either chalk this up to racism or extreme ignorance about Africa, it's countries and people. Either way, this is a quote from a supposedly well "educated" college student. |
It can also be extreme ignorance about the disease (a lot of people think its airborne), and just general paranoia that hits with any disease in today's media driven hype machine. Influenza kills far more people each year, but you look across the media services in Korea and the globe and its "big bad ebola". Where are the interviews with Koreans who don't care? Where are the interviews with people like my students where in a 6 person class one had the paranoid, 'No Africans' view, another emphasized approaching things scientifically and not giving into fear, one rambled about some sort of conspiracy involving drug companies, another dismissed it as media hype and people as panicky and gullible, and two just talked about movies relating to viruses (sounds like a normal cross-section of humanity)? Has Itaewon suddenly vacated and shuttered? Seems the silent majority have little worry.
There's some people in Atlanta or Republicans blaming Obama or just average people who are all freaked out and paranoid about some guy from the U.S. being flown into treatment, but I don't regard them as representing America or American's views. Sure some people are scared, but many others don't care or think ebola is some conspiracy or think it's a drug company scam or think it's perfectly fine, etc. etc.
Then again maybe someone does bring ebola here and it spreads. Then they'd be right, for the wrong reasons, but they'd be right. |
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Hokie21
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"I want to study in Germany but I heard there are a lot of Africans there...."
Keep going SR. You're doing good bud...predictable but good! |
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Old Painless
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| I heard that the Korean police or some other entity was out looking for illegal Nigerians to round up in the past few days. |
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