Daily Slave
October 23, 2014
The confused Negro Red Cross head, Elhadj As Sy, claims that closing borders and imposing travel bans to isolate the Ebola virus is irrational.
CBC:
Closing borders will not effectively curb Ebola infections, the head of the Red Cross said on Wednesday, amid debate over whether bans on travel from hardest-hit African countries would help combat the spread of the deadly virus.
This year’s outbreak of the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever thought to have originated in forest bats is the worst on record, having killed more than 4,500 people, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Travellers from the region have infected two people in the U.S. state of Texas and one in Madrid, prompting some leaders, including some U.S. lawmakers, to urge a ban on travel from West Africa.
Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said such restrictions would not make sense.
“It (Ebola) creates a lot of fear and extreme panic that sometimes lead to very irrational type of behaviours and measures, like closing borders, cancelling flights, isolating countries etc.,” Sy told reporters in Beijing, where the IFRC, the world’s largest humanitarian network, was holding a conference.
“Those are not solutions. The only solution is how can we join our efforts to contain those kinds of viruses and epidemics at their epicentre, right where they start.”
This man is obviously an idiot and undoubtedly obtained his position because they needed a token Black guy to lead the organization. After all, it is more important to show the world that the Red Cross isn’t “racist” than to hire someone who is actually qualified to do the job.
If you have any sort of contagious virus and you want to prevent it from spreading, you don’t let people who are infected or may potentially be infected move into other areas. Doing so puts more people at risk and increases the chance that the virus will spread.
There’s a reason why quarantines have historically been used to contain virus and disease outbreaks.
But of course all of this is “racist,” so I must be wrong.