Ask HN: What would you do in case of a large Ebola outbreak?

Re:Ask HN: What would you do in case of a large Ebola outbreak? by jayshahtx on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @05:57PM (#8111244)

I found this comment to have an undertone of ignorance.

1) Implying a cluster of 54 countries are all homogeneous, have poor health standard, etc

2) "Struggles to provide any clean water to humans at all" - this is much more heresy than fact. Please rely on statistics

African countries by no means are world superpowers, but this comment is pretty ignorant. Please think twice about such comments, they can be interpreted as offensive

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do in case of a large Ebola outbreak? by dllthomas on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @06:45PM (#8111396)

Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are all poor countries with limited access to health care.

Additionally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_in_Sierra_Leone opens with "Water supply in Sierra Leone is characterized by limited access to safe drinking water."

The parent made no statement that all of Africa is so limited, only that the outbreak was in Africa. The countries most affected by the outbreak were correctly described.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do in case of a large Ebola outbreak? by snowwrestler on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:21PM (#8112137)

I did not mean to imply that all of Africa lacks clean water and is hostile to doctors--just the areas of the current outbreak. Sorry for the imprecise language.

I think it is instructive that ebola has not spread to the more developed areas of Africa in 30 years. Compare to AIDS, which also originated in Africa and rapidly spread into cities worldwide.

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