No Ebola! Bad Ebola!
I REALLY F***ING HOPE SO [Image taken from mapsofindia.com] |
"The 26-year-old man is being isolated in a facility at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport, The Times of India reports."
“According to the Times, the man had already been treated for Ebola in West Africa, currently does not have symptoms and tested negative for the virus before he flew. However, his semen tested positive for the virus.”
That last line really hits the spot.
Of all the places you might want Ebola to
be, India will probably be way down on that secret list you have been
scribbling around on your notepad because let me tell you what, if India has an
Ebola outbreak, all hell is going to break lose. It’s not just a country we are
talking about here, but the population; a huge untethered mass of residents who
live in close proximity to each other. The exponential growth of Ebola patients
in the region will be unfathomable. If US, probably the most prepared nation to
mitigate an outbreak of the virus, is literally shitting its pants right now
then imagine how India is going to deal with such a humongous, gigantic,
dinosauric, monstoric task.
If you truly want to know who else is shitting his
pants right now it's me. I am in such a state that I am looking to for some Ajashi diapers around GS25 to see if
they fit. I will probably have to order a year’s worth of it from Gmarket but there
you go. I will also be praying to my newly made Ebola-prevention god because I
am not sure if the other gods have any clue how this is really going to work
out. A friend of mine suggested Shiva. Good point, but then he will probably
get mad and destroy the rest of us too. You gotta be careful of what you wish
for, you know.
What seriously worries me is the impact it
is going to have to people back home. India’s open boarder policy has been a
boon and curse at the same time. That is till now. If, ebola-prevention-god
forbid, breaks out in India, the scale is going to tip the other way. It is highly plausible to think that Nepal
too will be affected. So will Bangladesh, Srilanka, Bhutan and worse…China.
China!
We, as a nation, can hardly take care of
outbreaks of lesser, curable diseases such as cholera…cholera, for god’s sake. It’s
unimaginable to think how we are going to cope with a disease which has yet to
find a proper cure (there is but if treated at the earliest). It’s not at all
interesting to read and listen about how Doctors Without Borders and Co. are working
out there at ground zero, trying to prevent patients from dying and prevent the
disease from spreading. The sad reality is, if the ground zero expands its territory
beyond our borders, there won’t any help because well, it will all be a little
too late by then.
Please India, don’t screw up this time will
you?
[If you are a practicing doctor and you know a thing or two about ebola, you can leave your comments below. It would be interesting to read what you make out of this possible mess]
[If you are a practicing doctor and you know a thing or two about ebola, you can leave your comments below. It would be interesting to read what you make out of this possible mess]
Not, by any means, a comment you'd expect..
ReplyDeletetara reading white fonts on black background is quite a task.
(however i dont if this is the case for only the MINUS 5 Diptre spectacle-powered eyes)
and yes- I am an avid follower of your blog and I love the contents..
hmm interesting, thanks for the feedback. will make sure to work on it
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