{"id":125126,"date":"2014-10-11T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=125126"},"modified":"2014-10-11T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:59:55","slug":"stay-well-sparkle-nigerian-ban-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/stay-well-sparkle-nigerian-ban-really\/","title":{"rendered":"STAY WELL &#038; SPARKLE\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0What Does a Nigerian Ban Really Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109911\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109911\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Dr.-Sam-Christian-286x300.png\" alt=\"Dr. Sam Christian\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Dr.-Sam-Christian-286x300.png 286w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Dr.-Sam-Christian-143x150.png 143w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Dr.-Sam-Christian.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sam Christian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey have Ebola, nuh? We have to do something oui! We have to!\u201d In hushed tones, the neighbours confronted the landlady for the Nigerian medical students. Of course, they were well aware that the same students had been living in that house uninterrupted for two years. But they were hearing so many things; they didn\u2019t know what to believe. Now the government ban further validates those fears.<\/p>\n<p>I sent a Nigerian student to the hospital for transfusion. She was already diagnosed with severe anemia from heavy periods. A medical officer threatened to quarantine her despite proof she was on island for 15 months. Even some educated patients refuse to let Nigerian students examine them. Many have advised me that writing this article is not wise. But these kinds of indignities are totally uncalled for. I expect heavy criticism. With upwards of 90% support, the \u2018Ban Nigerians\u2019 sentiment in Dominica is raging \u2013 and wrong. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<p>I must confess: I am just as afraid of Ebola as the next person. It would be crazy not to be. We all agree it would be unimaginable to get it here. This reaction is global. Football phenom Lass Bangoura was honoured to represent his Ebola-stricken country of Guinea in a key Africa Cup of Nations match. He was their best bet for success. However, his teammates on the Spanish club Rayo Vallecano where he earns big bucks made it quite clear that if he did, they would refuse to play alongside him. Bangoura therefore dropped out from his national team. Now he is afraid that his angry countrymen might take it out on his family at home.<\/p>\n<p>Texans are big and bad, but quivering in fear as they monitor multiple contacts of deceased Liberian-American Eric Duncan. Think talk of cancelling World Creole Festival is extreme? Trinidad is considering canceling carnival should Ebola reach the Caribbean by that time. When last were you truly scared? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g\"><strong>Did you see this apocalyptic movie?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing we can be certain of is that it will absolutely get worse before it gets better. Today, the death toll surged past 4000. Conservative estimates are for over 1.4 million people to contract Ebola. With a mortality of 50-90%, you do the math.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get a grip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, this is not a nightmare. We have to deal with it maturely, responsibly with an unwavering scientific approach. If you get one thing out of this article, it is this: They have been trying to sell you the notion that all kinds of bad diseases come out of Africa. This makes people of colour beat up their self-worth and turn on their own. At all levels of society, a shameful undercurrent of <em>afriphobia<\/em> still runs deep and fuels our choices and decisions.<\/p>\n<p>A quick glimpse at history reminds us that humanity is no stranger to staggering plagues and pestilences. We\u2019ve been there many times before. And people in their panic, always pick on a scapegoat. The so-called <em>Black<\/em> Death wiped out half of Europe between 1340 and 1400. Plagues kept popping up thereafter snuffing out an average of a million in Seville, 1647; London, 1665; Baltics, 1708; India, 1896; Hawaii, 1899; Australia, 1925; Hong Kong, 1968. Research it yourself. The Spanish Flu killed 50 million in 1918, give or take a few. Africa hardly appears among the truly bad plagues of mankind \u2013 unless, of course you want to include Egypt in the time of Moses.<\/p>\n<p>And on that note, it is not unexpected for the religious to say this is the wrath of God, the sign of the times and the end of the world. But please do not use Ebola as an excuse for filthy lucre by peddling colloidal silver, prayer cloths and all kinds of bizarre cures of no proven value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigeria is Ebola-free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Work with me on this one: As we speak, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE EBOLA PATIENT IN NIGERIA, (check). Nigeria has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, (check). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalsos.com\/ebola\/index.cfm?content_id=418&amp;language_id=ENG%20\"><strong>The US Center for Disease Control, CDC, has downgraded the Nigerian Ebola risk,<\/strong><\/a> (check). Nigeria is singled out as a role model and currently advises other nations how to cope with such an outbreak, (check). It will be at least a couple months before the United States can be declared Ebola-free. The same applies to Spain. Then why on earth would you ban Nigerians and not Americans or Spanish? People move to and fro in huge numbers. It is becoming standard operating procedure at ports of entry around the world to screen everyone for fever. Why should we do one set and not others? For Christ sake man! As Star Trek\u2019s Dr. Spock would say, \u201cThat\u2019s not even logical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banning Nigerian performers under immense pressure from the opposition does not make us safer. It only feeds into the narrative that the threat is Nigerian when the World Health Organization and the CDC are clearly saying the opposite. What people really want is to \u2018show me what you got.\u2019 A visual would go a long way. \u00a0How about just showing us a health worker in one of those head-to-toe protective suits \u2013 not scores of them, just one. Throw in a laser non-contact laser thermometer, a body bag and a decontaminant spray while you are at it. Only then can we truly begin to feel we are ready.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, life is a vapour that appears for a little while and vanishes away. Along with waves of shocked family and friends, I just spent time in Accident &amp; Emergency comforting my dear classmate who suddenly lost two sons in two months. With Ebola, compress such tragedy into two weeks \u2013 for several families at once.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know Flavour. I don\u2019t know Soukous; but I know the African students. It\u2019s about them. They travel three days to get here. They are clean, healthy and work hard to pursue their dreams. They contribute to the Dominican economy. Hospitality means taking seriously our God-given duty to safeguard the strangers within our gates.<\/p>\n<p>President Franklyn Delano Roosevelt declared that, \u201cWe have nothing to fear but fear itself.\u201d Fear is a cancer spreading like wildfire. There is still time organize a mass education campaign and institute specific official guidelines to reduce prejudice and hysteria. We cherish values such as truth, pride, courage. At the end of the day, those of us who survive must hold steady and carry on! Otherwise, someone may do something stupid for which we\u2019ll simply say, \u201cSo sorry\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on Dr. Christian please click on the <\/strong><strong>website<\/strong> http:\/\/urgentcareda.weebly.com\/<strong> or call 440-9133 \/ 613-8345<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey have Ebola, nuh? We have to do something oui! We have to!\u201d In hushed tones, the neighbours confronted the landlady for the Nigerian medical students. 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