This thread has WAY too much of privileged people trying to think for Africa. This is Africa's issue and must be addressed within African values and under African leadership.

OUR role can only be to advise OUR leaders on how to handle the tiny impact it is now having HERE, and bring our values into THAT debate, and on the debates to come as we see how much of an issue we are going to have HERE.

We as human beans on this planet in this era are not-- sorry-- exempt from epidemics, pandemics, and plagues. Perhaps we privileged people have finally hit a wall we will not be able to knock down. As a species we have allowed the present situation to develop. And we are going to have to pay our share of the price of our blindness. Telling Africa what they ought to be doing is not only egregiously arrogant, it also distracts us from what needs to be done HERE.

Unless I missed something about anyone here having even a remote connection to the health authorities in African sovereign nations.....

Ya know who of us privileged people over here gets to exercise their values in Africa? People who are willing to GO there and be directed BY AFRICANS.

~S~