So, who is responsible for the collection and disposal of the UN sewage?
MINUSTAH is responsable for its own waste removal and camp construction and maintenance.... as well as its food... which comes from here in the DR
So, who is responsible for the collection and disposal of the UN sewage?
Prior to this year both the Dominican Republic and Haiti had not confirmed a single case of cholera for over 100 years.
Read more: Haiti?s Cholera Epidemic Crosses The Dominican Border - TIME NewsFeed
What has me leaning towards believing the story about it being a new strain of cholera is that Haiti has had several catastrophes the past 15 years involving flooding....several, and never heard of an outbreak of this proportion.
What makes me a bit skeptical is that....I think Black folks in general and Haitians specifically are too prone to believing and immediately spreading rumors.
There's good reason that we have for believing the worst given how our leaders and outsiders have sold us out and exploited us time after time, but even in normal times in Haiti we are just too accepting of rumors.
A few weeks ago the "story" was that officials from DR had intentionally spread cholera in Haiti....and, on cue, some people from older generation were ACTUALLY repeating the story...
I read a book years ago about Blacks in America (& western hemisphere) and rumors...and
I'll reserve judgment until more facts come out.
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Care to elaborate? Or, would you instead agree that this is something that is common to anyone (black or white) who is susceptible to believing "Urban Legends" (and I bet that includes YOU too).
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Oh ok....I'm BLACK....
Moreover, as the book explains....because of ACTUAL mistreatment, brutality,and exploitation of our people by white people and institutions...certain rumors will always gain steam in our communities.....regardless of facts.
Things DID happen overtly and covertly to our people(tuskegee experiment. FBI cointelpro) that it's not too much of a stretch to believe some of the examples she gave.........Church's chicken being owned by the klan, and putting things in the chicken to kill or sterilize Black men.
I don't know if you lived in a major American city in the late 80s...but that was definitely a bigtime rumor that got a lot of burn.
It goes just beyond people in America and a tendency towards urban myths.Let's not mince words.
Ok ... so WE have something in common with the author of that book (who is also Black). But, I think it's more related to how people tend to believe Urban Myths, rather than race. Just my opinion ....
A lot of people, white and black, bought into some of the myths about Aids and Haiti. Destroyed tourism there, among other things.
As someone born and raised in the US, in the late 40's, I am aware of the impact and implications. You are not wrong. But I do think it also goes beyond race. ANY group that perceives a threat (Tuskegee experiment ... in Guatemala?) will be hyper-suspicious.
1958 and 1961 was not Cholera, but probably Giardiasis or even better Salmonellosis.
The diseases which are similar to cholera are Campylobacteriosis, Cryptosporidiosis, Escherichia Coli, Giardiasis, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), Norovirus, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis and Yersiniosis.
Okay guys, let's steer this thread back to Haiti/Cholera/UN and away from race.
AE
Since all the tests seem to point to the Nepalese unit as the source of this particular South Asian strain, I hope the UN will take responsiblity for this and step up their efforts to bring in the antibiotics etc.
CBC News - World - Haiti protests against UN flare again
and does it matter how it got there?
...and does it matter how it got there?