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There's no question about Ebola as the new killer spreading around the world out of Africa.
For the DR the question is not if, but how soon will it get here and settle in.
Are we prepared? How can you prepare for something that there's not a single effective treatment to this date?
Can we deal with an Ebola outbreak and still function as an economy? Highly doubtful.
The only way to halt Ebola from spreading to the western hemisphere, is to ban all direct flights from African/European/Asian or Australian destinations. Save for western hemisphere (read Continental America) direct travel, not a single person should be allowed into our region without undergoing a full quarantine check point.
Will this be done? Not a chance in hell, as the travel industry will be all over politicians if they tried it.
Africa keeps sh*tting all over the world... What's going to be next?!!?
We got a good glimpse to what we are prepared for incoming known carriers of Ebola, but how about the ones that don't show the symptoms and will be allowed in?
Being in a first world country with the best of healthcare or a backwaters country will not make much difference at all come Ebola. The first ones to abandon their posts in the first world health care centers will be the staff, once their comrades start falling ill from "broken" protocols.
It's only a matter of some time when Ebola mutates to become airborne, enough to spread by simple coughs of carriers in a room.
So there it goes the DR's tourism sector and pretty much the economy grinds to a halt.
By the time Ebola spreads worldwide long enough, it will wipe out about 50% of the entire world's population. It will become endemic everywhere.
For the DR, Haiti is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig problem given the Ebola factor. Cholera has shown us the future of things if the border remains open and as porous as always.
There's no question about Ebola as the new killer spreading around the world out of Africa.
For the DR the question is not if, but how soon will it get here and settle in.
Are we prepared? How can you prepare for something that there's not a single effective treatment to this date?
Can we deal with an Ebola outbreak and still function as an economy? Highly doubtful.
The only way to halt Ebola from spreading to the western hemisphere, is to ban all direct flights from African/European/Asian or Australian destinations. Save for western hemisphere (read Continental America) direct travel, not a single person should be allowed into our region without undergoing a full quarantine check point.
Will this be done? Not a chance in hell, as the travel industry will be all over politicians if they tried it.
Africa keeps sh*tting all over the world... What's going to be next?!!?
We got a good glimpse to what we are prepared for incoming known carriers of Ebola, but how about the ones that don't show the symptoms and will be allowed in?
Being in a first world country with the best of healthcare or a backwaters country will not make much difference at all come Ebola. The first ones to abandon their posts in the first world health care centers will be the staff, once their comrades start falling ill from "broken" protocols.
It's only a matter of some time when Ebola mutates to become airborne, enough to spread by simple coughs of carriers in a room.
So there it goes the DR's tourism sector and pretty much the economy grinds to a halt.
By the time Ebola spreads worldwide long enough, it will wipe out about 50% of the entire world's population. It will become endemic everywhere.
For the DR, Haiti is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig problem given the Ebola factor. Cholera has shown us the future of things if the border remains open and as porous as always.