“We need some perspective,” says Varma. “In the early days of HIV-AIDS, rumors swirled that it was originating from Haiti, and so Haitians in general were stigmatized. Today, people from the continent of Africa are being stigmatized because of Ebola. This disease reached epidemic proportions in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in West Africa in the past six months, resulting in some 4,000 dead. But Homeland Security tells us that about 150 people per day come into the U.S.A. from those countries, 43% through JFK. And we have not yet had a single case of Ebola in New York.”
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:00:12 +0000
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