Written by Richard Kane   

There are alarming calls for a massive increase in gloves, masks and protective clothing to prevent a possible worldwide Ebola disaster. Obama calls it a national security threat sending in the military to rush in supplies.

However, in Ebola threatened areas of East Africa there are many more cases of Malaria and Lassa Fever that also start with flu-like systems. If the neighbors know that someone in a family starts having flu-like symtems, the entire family and next door neighbors would suddenly have trouble interacting with others such as buying or selling vegetables or going to work. A joint East Africa wide attack on spreadable diseases including free rice for a family reporting a family member with flu-like conditions for a visiting nurse to come and investigate, and a simultaneous massive effort to get rid of mosquitos would slow the spread of Ebola over 90% of the time. This kind of US help would point the world toward worldwide health care including soon changing to cheaper single-payer healthcare in the US.

The US once crusaded against Malaria and Yellow Fever, ever since Dr. Jesse William Lazear of the US Army Corp of Engineers during the building of the Panama Canal died after he put himself and other volunteers in a room full of mosquitoes to investigate whether they would catch Yellow Fever. The US began to loose its crusading spirit to eliminate mosquito-spread diseases after the US was free of these diseases.

Being confused with other diseases is not the only thing tripping up the Ebola fight. All the high-tech gloves, masks, and protective gear is dangerous after use. It is only totally effective in a high-tech environment not out in the field no matter how skilled and careful a healthcare worker can be and is massively cumbersome. I call for a new emphasis: Blood from patients newly cured from Ebola has been given to those who touched infected material or people, but not yet sick, with very promising results. Mother Teresa, had she lived and caught Ebola and survived, or the late hero-doctor of Sierra Leone Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, and had saved over one hundred Lassa Fever victims and some Ebola victims would have gone back to work without protective gloves and masks or at least lesser protection. Too bad Dr. Khan was denied life-saving Zmapp like the Americans and a Brit got. Many of the more than 250 Ebola victims who survived should be encouraged to give blood and paid to get quickly involved fighting Ebola and maybe with some kind of separation between them and workers without any protection against the Ebola virus. Someone without any literacy, or care-giving experience could be involved in such things as disinfecting gloves, and cleaning the rooms. Currently to a low-tech peasant it almost looks like being kidnapped and experimented on in a UFO, no wonder so many of them avoid treatment until extremely sick.

If we weren't mesmerized by experts, common sense would tell us that those infected would want to be better treated with survivors nearby, who could do a better job.

I wrote an earlier article at this site talking of the moral problems of giving lifesaving Zmapp medicine first to Americas and a British nurse and since the US and British nurses successfully cured with Zmapp, Nancy Writebol and William Pooley say they are going back. I have been wanting to urge them to do it without protection but didn't yet find their email or address to ask them to do this without protection this time. I hope someone forwarded my Reader Supported News or Fire Dog Lake articles to them,

Comments became closed on old articles on the moral dilemma in giving Westerners preferred treatment even before the death of Sierra Leone's hero-doctor Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, who died with lifesaving Zmapp nearby added to the moral question. Those who want to comment about the moral questions can comment on Reader Supported News where comments don't close.
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/256-justice/25543-us-could-have-a-heroic-not-selfish-role-in-the-ebola-fight

However, I too suddenly realize I have been ignoring the obvious like others have been only in a different way. I now realize I have been blinded by the feeling that Westerner survivors need to be the leaders to change Ebola policy from not being fixated on struggling for total sterility. People survived Ebola earlier and had time to recover from having a near-death experience, can become the leaders in working with newly sick patients. Someone without Western scientific training could take charge in trying to change the policy away from massive amounts of protection. Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma who eulogized Dr. Khan for saving over 100 lives would be an ideal person to push and organize payment to survivors to help those newly sickened without all the protection.

One part of my earlier efforts I want to save and expand upon: The highly articulate western educated brothers and sisters of Dr. Khan the hero-doctor who complained bitterly about their brother not being given lifesaving Zmapp, and could help in getting others to go back with less protection like he would have done. Please readers help me get in touch with them,
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/family-of-dr-sheik-humarr-khan-who-died-from-ebola-in-sierra-leone-hold-vigil-in-maryland-105721.html
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-neighbours-rally-to-support-brother-of-tragic-ebola-crusader-30489329.html