Ebola

[Essex1]

Interesting thread. Global warming. Man made or natural?

 

[Marvo]

I never said what the UK charities were doing was right.

There is however, a larger real world "rich/poor" divide in Africa than is in mainland EU.

Subsistence people, don't lack food, perhaps, but, they do lack support and medication etc.

Do their countries "leaders" also, never I suspect.

The approach to Ebola was a threat to the "rest" of the World, thus, it will have been brought to the forefront, because it is sensationalist, and will generate headlines.

However, it is an easily communicable disease, and easily contained, so it was right to highlight it and contain it, if it had been allowed to disseminate and decimate the whole world population then that would not have been right either.

All the African countries in my neck of the woods all have a social system that feeds pensioners and unemployed and provides basic medical care for the sick. It's not as advanced as the EU but it's there and people don't starve because of it. Obviously the ratio of contributors to people relying on it is not the same as it is in Europe so it can't provide big screen TV's for the bone idle lazy but it does work, at least to a point.

I only have good things to say about our government hospitals. My wife had a disc replacement and vertebra fusion in a government owned teaching hospital and her standard of care was second to none. The cost was around GBP1800.00 5 years ago. My son was concussed during a rugby game at school and he was in 2 different hospitals, one for primary treatment and one for a CAT scan and an MRI, treatment, transport and service was exceptional even by UK standards and cost was <GBP70.00. This type of treatment is available to everyone. 

The rich/poor divide is relative to a point as I tried to illustrate with rural communities. City dwellers are where the poverty is, they don't have the support structure of a local community, can't grow their own food and can't just build themselves a house to live in. They need money to eat and live whereas the rural people don't. That said, most of the urban poor are living that way out of choice, they often have families and homes in rural areas and live in the cities in an attempt to earn more money. This is obviously a simplistic take, there's lots of immigrants who don't have a choice to go home and also don't qualify for social support.   

 

[binky]

Interesting thread. Global warming. Man made or natural?

there are plenty of discussions on that here already. Don't digress from the thread.

 

[Essex1]

there are plenty of discussions on that here already. Don't digress from the thread.

I will search now.