Daily Episode 179 - Catabolic Collapse of Healthcare: Ebola
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Why should new listeners start with the first episodes before diving into today’s Ebola discussion?
Hey, Corey here. We've had an influx of new listeners, and so I just want to make sure that if you are new to the podcast, you don't just jump in and start listening to these daily episodes, which we've been doing. Please go back and listen to the first at least eight episodes so you have an idea of what Collapse is, what it is that Corey is talking about. Also, if you've been with us for a while and you're enjoying the content, please join us on Patreon. We would love to see you there. There's a link, as always, in the description. Every so often, articles will pop up in the news. They will stick around for a good while, cause a splash. Lots of conjecture and hyperbole and all that sort of stuff can come out of it.
And in the end, it doesn't turn into much. The thing is, though, you never know what is going to turn into something and what is not. For example, in the year 2019, as news started to emerge out of China about this strange new disease, I might have said the same thing. Of course, that turned into COVID-19 and is still affecting society today in multiple ways. And thus it goes with many different types of disease outbreaks. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently going through its 17th iteration of Ebola outbreaks in the last 50 years. This one, though, is a little bit different than the others. And we're going to talk about why that is today. And spoiler alert. It's catabolic collapse. The issue that we're facing with this current Ebola outbreak is one that started because the government of the United States decided to look inward to make cuts to programs, whether that be for the sake of budget, whether that be for corruption, whether that be for an attempt at growing isolationism, or whether it be just to make people angry, to cause suffering. It follows the principle, this idea, that as life gets more complex,
As infrastructure requires more resources, we start to remove it. The U.S. left the WHO, and this article from DemocracyNow.org questions, did the U.S. AID cuts worsen the crisis? Well, before we get into that part of it, let's actually just talk about the issue at hand. Where are we at right now as far as this Ebola crisis goes? And in order to give an update and an overview, we're going to go to a Yahoo News article. This is one that gives updates. It says, WHO upgrades risk to very high and warns virus is spreading rapidly. The World Health Organization director general has warned that the Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo and poses a very high risk to the country. There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths.
Now, just yesterday I was looking at this and there was about 500 suspected cases. So it went up by 50% in a day. They are concerned that the number of actual cases is much higher than this. And we'll get into a couple of reasons why here in just a moment. It says in neighboring Uganda, there have also been two cases confirmed in people who traveled from Congo. The announcement came as the U.S. pledged $23 million to help with the crisis response in the DRC and Uganda.
What are the latest case numbers and death tolls in the DRC and Uganda Ebola outbreak?
Now, these two people that went to Uganda from Congo and were discovered there to likely have it, they are separate. They are not. They weren't traveling together. They were not in contact with each other. And it highlights the risk to this growing outside of Congo. And the fact that they found two means that there are likely more. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and I'm sure that I said that wrong, this is the director general for the WHO, said earlier this week that he was deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the outbreak and declared it a public health emergency. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has temporarily banned travel to the United States for people without American passports.
who have been in DRC, South Sudan, or Uganda in the past three weeks. The CDC also confirmed that an American doctor working in the DRC, identified as Peter Stafford, had tested positive for Ebola and was taken to Germany for treatment. Six other U.S. citizens have been exposed. A Christian missionary group that Stafford works with reported on Thursday that he was critically ill but not acutely deteriorating. Stafford's wife, who is also a doctor, and their four children are asymptomatic and quarantining in Germany as a precaution.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why should new listeners start with the first episodes before diving into today’s Ebola discussion?
0:00–3:06
2
What are the latest case numbers and death tolls in the DRC and Uganda Ebola outbreak?
3:06–5:58
3
How are U.S. policy cuts to USAID and the WHO influencing the speed of Ebola’s spread?
5:58–8:46
4
What does former CDC Director Robert Redfield warn about the potential for an Ebola pandemic?
8:46–11:34
5
Why could population density in cities like Kampala and regional conflicts worsen the Ebola crisis?
11:34–14:21