So Rwanda has put into play additional screening measures for travelers coming from the US and Spain to keep out Ebola and some people are actually in disbelief and questioning it. Ummmm what, so American schools can keep out Rwandan students (a country that has not registered not even one Ebola case and is almost 3000 miles away from the current outbreak) but Rwanda cant take measures against the US and Spain - countries that actually have registered cases? Boh arbaig eina lef me safful - filling out a few extra forms isnt going to kill these travelers. And the measures Rwanda is asking for isnt that much different from the screening process the US is asking of travelers from the countries that have registered cases. I personally am not against any of the airport screenings and the necessary precautions now being put in place for travelers from the hot zones - we all had to adjust after 911 - so Im cool with that. What I am against is the growing stigma and the discriminatory practices popping up all over the globe, i.e. parents pulling their children out of school because the principal went to Zambia (hello geography lessons please), restaurants in Asia putting up signs saying they wont serve Africans, people loosing their jobs because they are Sierra Leonean, Liberian, Guinean, etc. etc. etc.etc. Stigma has real consequences on peoples lives, we know this, we have seen this already - think of the stigma that was once attached to HIV/AIDS. Fight Ebola, focus of fighting the virus not the humans now suffering through something they didnt ask for. Stopping Ebola is for the betterment of everybody, simples....
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:55:02 +0000