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Reading Junkie retweeted
“Ugandan, Swiss, Nigerian”.
The index #Ebola patient in #Nigeria has attracted unnecessary and stigmatising labels; it only fuels public anxiety, and stigma.
See the labels..
“A Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja”
“A Swiss national married to a diplomat”
“A Swiss citizen and the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat”
“A Ugandan national married to a Swiss diplomat”
“A Nigerian national holidaying in Uganda”
“A Wife of a Swiss diplomat”
“A Nigerian woman on a business trip to DRC but transited through Uganda”
“A 42-year-old Ugandan woman”
Can we all just stop this? Public officials with nothing verified to communicate, can you keep off?
The precision of public information matters a lot.
The personal identity of Nigeria’s index Ebola case provides zero medical value.
In fact, potential patients will avoid testing to escape public trial.
Ultimately, we will all pay the price.
Reading Junkie retweeted
This seems like a good time to tell you about how outbreak response works.
1. Declaration. There is a category of diseases that countries are mandated to tell the rest of the world about when a certain threshold of number of cases is reached. For Ebola, that is 1 case.
Reading Junkie retweeted
The same way they were undetected at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and Mutala Mohammed International Airport. If they were served at thos sairpirts, you would claim some supremacy. Ebola is a complex virus that's not ready for these doltish questions
Reading Junkie retweeted
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from living in a country where you cannot confidently plan your future because the economy, currency, electricity and cost of living can ruin your plans overnight.
Reading Junkie retweeted
Come to think of it, the sale of @StanChartUGA to @AbsaUganda did not give us as customers the option to opt out. Basically, one bank sold our data to the other ....
OK, it is now time to start asking the questions
Reading Junkie retweeted
Why aren’t robots working in mines, drilling for oil, handling toxic chemicals, or cleaning plastic out of our oceans? Why are they writing emails and creating art instead? Shouldn’t technology be taking over the dangerous jobs, not the creative ones?
What the hell are we doing?
Reading Junkie retweeted
Congratulations to the novelist Simba Kundizeza for winning the 2026 @CainePrize. What a great achievement! Pls check out his work + the work of other fantastic African writers on the shortlist. And everyone in media should interrogate why Black & African writers keep getting hit with AI charges by Western publications clearly unfamiliar w/the history of African writing
