A Choleratic Cluster F*ck

I just finished reading this article on the CNN web-site.  The article itself says nothing new about cholera, once an epidemic breaks out, It will continue until the people can get a clean water source.

It's really sad that a natural disaster had to hit the poorest nation in the Americas.  The total lack of adequate waste management is turning a disaster even worse, and now, the victims are turning on the very people and organizations that are trying to alleviate the problem, taking the problem from worse to abysmally worse.  I have hope, that working together, the people of the world can patch the problem up, but how high will the death-toll reach before that happens. And what can other nations do to change the conditions in Haiti so they won't happen again, it's not as if Haiti's neighbors haven't been donating money, but where has this money gone?  I'm sorry, I try to remain detached and look for possible answers on this blog, but the cholera epidemic in Haiti has me flummoxed the more I find out about it, and I really don't know how we can fix it.  Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, and doesn't show any signs of positive change.  Are we going to watch as mismanagement, corruption, ignorance and a almost total lack of infrastructure result in a perfect storm of auto-genocide for the first independent nation of Latin-America?  If not, what can we do?  These are not rhetorical questions, I don't know how to save Haiti, and I don't see any other long term plans other than keep sending aid that doesn't seem to do anything.

And then there's this 'story' on the same web-site, stirring up fear, stupidity and ignorance of the way cholera spreads to infer that the US is in some way in peril of being struck by a cholera epidemic.

The comments on both stories are appalling, spanning from crass stupidity and ignorance, through veiled racism to outright racist shittery.  I need a good nice story to cuttle up with, a nice fun fluffy story to balance all the gloom and stupid.  Where's the anti-gay preacher or politician with his hand down a rent-boy's pants when you really need them?  Okay, that last question was rhetorical.

I'm sorry if this post is long and rambling, but I have to get this out of my system somehow.