I don't think we need to question the humanity of anyone who voluntarily goes into that pit of disease. And yes to compassion, which I think is implied. And I think there need to be hands off ways of showing compassion, through radio, through perhaps standing at a distance with hymns, prayers, whatever..but I can not say what a safe distance is and it would have to be outdoors I would think.

But first and foremost contain the disease. Make sure that soldiers, nurses, taxi drivers, garbage collectors are safe. Make patients as comfortable as can be within that requirement. If you lose your people who take care of the sick, you have lost it period. There are things that can be done with cell phones, technology that we throw away in US such as cd players, vcrs, projection screens so people could see their loved ones talking to them. Do not touch unless you have to. Use tongs or whatever to stay farther away. Use older people I guess rather than younger to take care of the babies, which are a huge problem I have not been able to consider. Explain and have local authorities explain again and again. THis is definitely working but there is not the luxury of time to have it work its way down.

And I am waiting for at least one bishop out of the hundreds assembled to (perhaps some already ahve but I have not heard it) discuss this and offer some concrete help. Look at pictures of them in their matching outfits..they don't need to match when people are dying like this. Think of the money we could have had without all those lawsuits, which were preventable if honest men and women had been running things...also, think of how this relates to the ban on contraception...do we need a recipe for plague? Crowd people 20 to a room with no sanitary facilities.