cali posts story that shows government impotent, praises...corporate plantation!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

cali (95,945 posts)

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

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When the Ebola case was diagnosed, "we went in to crisis mode," recalls Ed Garcia, the managing director of Firestone Liberia. He redirected his entire management structure toward Ebola.

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"None of us had any Ebola experience," he says. They scoured the Internet for information about how to treat Ebola. They cleared out a building on the hospital grounds and set up an isolation ward. They grabbed a bunch of hazmat suits for dealing with chemical spills at the rubber factory and gave them to the hospital staff. The suits worked just as well for Ebola cases.

Firestone immediately quarantined the family of the woman. Like so many Ebola patients, she died soon after being admitted to the ward. But no one else at Firestone got infected: not her family and not the workers who transported, treated and cared for her.

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

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025631177

[diesel driver]

And yet, dear Barry and our glorious guberment STILL won't close the Southern border.

Un f'n believable!   

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

And yet, dear Barry and our glorious guberment STILL won't close the Southern border.

Un f'n believable!   

One man's illegal border crossing is another man's GOTV initiative.

[thundley4]

Wait, what? An evil corporation doing what Barry BigEars and other governments can't do?

[diesel driver]

Wait, what? An evil corporation doing what Barry BigEars and other governments can't do?

Yeah, not only DOING IT, but DOING IT BETTER, and no doubt, CHEAPER!   

[franksolich]

Wait, what? An evil corporation doing what Barry BigEars and other governments can't do?

Well, don't forget, it was private individuals, private money, private initiative, that eradicated the scourge of the South circa a hundred years ago, not government programs and taxpayer money.

They did it more cheaply than government could've done it, and quicker too.

[DefiantSix]

One man's illegal border crossing is another man's GOTV initiative.

And considering the extent the Dhimmi'Rats rely on the long dead zombie voters, an Ebola epidemic in the US only reduces the voting population of his opponents.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Wait, what? An evil corporation doing what Barry BigEars and other governments can't do?

Not just an evil corporation but one that has a plantation where black people work.