FIRESTONE stopped Ebola

[DrLeftover]

You will, of course, notice that THIS is NOT from those disgusting haters at Fox News:

Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks

The classic slogan for Firestone tires was "where the rubber meets the road."

When it comes to Ebola, the rubber met the road at the Firestone rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia.

Harbel is a company town not far from the capital city of Monrovia. It was named in 1926 after the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Harvey and his wife, Idabelle. Today, Firestone workers and their families make up a community of 80,000 people across the plantation.

Firestone detected its first Ebola case on March 30, when an employee's wife arrived from northern Liberia. She'd been caring for a disease-stricken woman and was herself diagnosed with the disease. Since then Firestone has done a remarkable job of keeping the virus at bay. It built its own treatment center and set up a comprehensive response that's managed to quickly stop transmission. Dr. Brendan Flannery, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's team in Liberia, has hailed Firestone's efforts as resourceful, innovative and effective.

Currently the only Ebola cases on the sprawling, 185-square-mile plantation are in patients who come from neighboring towns.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/06/354054915/firestone-did-what-governments-have-not-stopped-ebola-in-its-tracks

 

[DrLeftover]

More:

(NEWSER) – You know all the gnashingof teeth about how terrible the global response to the Ebola outbreak has been? Maybe someone should check with Firestone.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/08/ebola-firestone-liberia/16908853/

 

[Webster]

...and that's another reason why I like Firestone (besides their support of the IndyCar Series): they took charge of a bad situation and actually did something about it. Maybe we could learn a few lessons about it for future use.

 

[DrLeftover]

...and that's another reason why I like Firestone (besides their support of the IndyCar Series): they took charge of a bad situation and actually did something about it. Maybe we could learn a few lessons about it for future use.

Yes, they did. And, somebody, somewhere, had to make some tough decisions and Do The Right Thing AND "Politics and Political Correctness be damned".

Just, try that, in DC and see what happens.

 

[Webster]

...and that's another reason why I like Firestone (besides their support of the IndyCar Series): they took charge of a bad situation and actually did something about it. Maybe we could learn a few lessons about it for future use.

Yes, they did. And, somebody, somewhere, had to make some tough decisions and Do The Right Thing AND "Politics and Political Correctness be damned".

Just, try that, in DC and see what happens.

Big difference between a company doing it and government doing the same thing...doesn't mean they can't take lessons from Firestone and apply them elsewhere but still...

 

[DrLeftover]

But, Relax!

Our Dear Leader has appointed a Lawyer as his Ebola Tzar!

So, now would be a good time to stock up on: SPAM, bottled water, toilet paper... ...

... ... ammo.

 

[+paradox]

a lot of ammo...

 

[Webster]

But, Relax!

Our Dear Leader has appointed a Lawyer as his Ebola Tzar!

So, now would be a good time to stock up on: SPAM, bottled water, toilet paper... ...

... ... ammo.

Oh, that's nice, stoke the fires of fear and panic, Doc...

 

[DrLeftover]

Has Anything they've said since the pandemic started in Africa turned out to be accurate?

I'm sure there's a few statements that were right, but it seems that if they say "A" then they have to change it to "B" or maybe "C" and then it plays out that "G" is correct.

 

[Webster]

Has Anything they've said since the pandemic started in Africa turned out to be accurate?

Well, there is this bit of good news in regards to the current West African pandemic, Doc...
Excerpt...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the West African nation of Senegal to be free of Ebola on Friday, a rare success in dealing with a deadly virus that has rampaged uncontrolled in neighboring countries and prompted alarm around the world.

Senegal’s achievement came as the health organization was reported to have internally acknowledged its own stark failure to arrest the disease months ago. The internal document reportedly went far beyond the self-criticism that organization officials have expressed publicly about their response.

The W.H.O. announcement on Senegal officially concluded a monitoring period of 42 days, twice the maximum incubation period for the virus, in which no new infections were found. The last recorded case in the country was a young man who was entering by road from Guinea; he recovered and returned to Guinea last week, the organization announced.

In what would be another conspicuous success, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, appeared close on Friday to declaring itself free of Ebola as well. The country would reach the 42-day milestone on Monday, after an outbreak that infected 20 people and resulted in eight deaths.

..you were saying, Doc?