Austerity has worked so well in hurting as many people in as many ways as possible. And the gift
keeps on giving.
On 8 August, the WHO director, Margaret Chan, finally declared Ebola an international public health emergency. There had been 1,711 cases and 932 deaths. “Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity on their own,” she said. She urged the international community to provide support.
Everybody now agrees this should have happened much earlier. “They clearly underestimated the situation, partly because the African office dropped the ball, partly because member states, including the UK, cut [the] WHO’s budget for emergencies and haemorrhagic fevers (as proposed by WHO management),” said Piot.
Oh we
need more of where that came from.
[cross-posted at
Firedoglake]
Rising Hegemon
5 comments:
the rich can't afford their greed anymore. we can't afford letting them win.
go where the money is.
as per we need a good round of finger pointing before the problem can be corrected
Only one thing can stop Ebola -- a tax cut for the rich
Bingo!
With more tax cuts, we can fight even more diseases!
as if there was any finger pointed during the blivet.
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