Support needed with African voices to fight Ebola

 #Ebola #PublicHealth

More countries asked to energize their public health systems to fight ebola.

LOTS of mistrust of outside help based on past experiences. LOTS of need for supplies.

Viruses don't respect borders. Do the right thing now.

Trump Moves TERRIFY EXPERTS as DISEASE SPREADS

How dangerous is the new Ebola outbreak? | DW News

Ebola spreads as new cases confirmed in Uganda | DW News

Why this Ebola is different | The Current

D.R.C. suspends large gatherings as WHO raises Ebola public health risk to 'very high'

Secure location delivery?

The RantWoman department of #FirstWorldProblems has FEEDBACK for Amazon.

Ahem.
RantWoman's instructions
ask for packages to be delivered to
her apartment door. That is not hard.

 1. What means "secure location?" Packages of perishable items left on the floor of a mailroom where people's packages are VERY likely to get stolen does not fit RantWoman's definition of "secure location." 

Luckily, one of RantWoman's neighbors put the grocery bags on top the mailboxes, a reasonable gesture only because RantWoman is tall and can stand, not an assumption to make about RantWoman's neighbors.

RantWoman appreciates a text indicating that the delivery had arrived. However, in a work at home world, needing to interrupt what one is doing to go look for one's groceries also makes RantWoman SCOWL.

Is RantWoman done?

NO!

Couldn't these two items
have come in one package instead of two?

As RantWoman has noted, first world problems....

Still

Thank you Iceland? A cold reception for US emissaries to Greenland?

Iceland has now sent their army
to Greenland

 Iceland

Today RantWoman has been collecting quirky reasons to be wildly enthusiastic about a trip to Iceland 

RantWoman has also been SLOWLY tiptoeing into Instagram. Adventures to be chronicled separately.

Quirky reasons....

1. NO MOSQUITOS. RantWoman believes the YouTube post where she saw this. Actually finding the post now, not so much.

2. NO McDonalds! Iceland is the only country in Europe without a McDonalds. YouTube promises plenty of other dining options so no loss.

3. A very safe place for women to travel alone. RantWoman kind of imagines wanting to assemble a posse of compatible souls but really likes the concept.

4. No freeways. From what RantWoman can tell, even the Ring Road around the Island is definitely a drive cautiously zone and a lot of the country is two-lane roads one needs a 4x4 to negotiate safely.

New Moms: GET YOUR BABY the Vitamin K shot at birth.

 

A Super El Nino? On top of everything else?

 RantWoman posts this intending to provoke thought.

RantWoman also directs readers to Cliff Mass Weather Blog. Prof Mass appears to RantWoman to be immune to panicking, immune in a way that to RantWoman sometimes lacks engagement about how data looks for people's lives. RantWoman still finds him an engaging--and sometimes argumentative--read.

Consider

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Heaviest Precipitation of the Year Ahead?

You say Goodbye. I say Hello. Singing Colbert out of Late Night.

#LateShow #StephenColbert

"We're Live, And We Sound Good Man" - Paul McCartney On The Beatles Playing The Ed Sullivan Show

The penultimate show

Stephen Colbert Takes The Colbert Questionert - EXTENDED SEGMENT

"Streets of Minneapolis" - Bruce Springsteen (LIVE on The Late Show)

And before that.

"It's The Best" - Jon Stewart On Losing A Late Night Show, And The Joyful Noise That Is Coming

Empathy Is The Ultimate Superpower In Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day"

"Burning Down The House" - David Byrne feat. Stephen Colbert (LIVE on The Late Show)

Stephen Colbert tells the story of when he knew his wife Evie was the one + Evie's cameo on the show

Don't eat fruit after a bat has eaten it: Ebola advice from a doctor's five-year-old

#Ebola

RantWoman finds it calming to acquire the information here and to focus on ways to make a difference.

Dr Cameron

Listen to a few key points and then if you live in the west and don't have time to watch the hole video, go away and don't worry.

Ebolavirus outbreak

(RantWoman encourages readers to stay on.)

Wash hands. Don't Wash bodies

Temperature checks

Surge equipment and supplies even when conditions are very difficult.

Bats bite the sweetest fruit and then kids pick up the contaminated fruit. DON'T eat fruit that has been bitten by a bat.

Talking Ebola at bedtime. 

Ebola is a Disease of compassion

Synopsis:

Ebola in Africa is probably going to get worse

US could help by having been prepared and being able to surge in relevant supplies but current administration has squandered leadership, undermined relationships.

Risk low but not Zero in the US: travel bans are partly performative. We only roll the dice so many times before they come up snake eyes.

Is Ebola in North America? | About That

Known first death in April was a nurse.

Ebola treatment centre in DR Congo burnt down as anger grows • FRANCE 24 English

DR Congo battles Ebola outbreak: Emergency medical supplies arrive as death toll rises

Ex-CDC director on Ebola: 'Going to be significant outbreak' | Elizabeth Vargas Reports

Fear that leak into Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda

Wash hands. DON'T wash bodies

Virus in blood, vomit, bodily fluids and lurks in semen even if a man is asymptomatic