AIDS Infection
Dec. 19th, 2006 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danalwynSometimes, in this world, a country has an outbreak of AIDS. What do you do when this happens? Well, you can begin promoting "safe sex" practices, educating people about the risks, and setting up clinics to take care of the patients in order to mitigate the wave of infections. Or you could set up a series of research labs to investigate a cure, work out a treaty for receiving cheap medical treatments from western pharmacies, and increase the coverage of your health program. In either case you should step up and take some responsibility for what's about to happen to your country. It's what you get paid for.
But, if you absolutely cannot handle taking any form of action, you can instead go to one of your hospitals, arrest some foreign medical workers, accuse them of infecting children with AIDS, hold a trial, extract some confessions under torture, ignore essentially every expert in the freakin' book, and then sentence them to death.
Libya claims that if they receive 10 million Euros in compensation, that they will release the prisoners. Bulgaria has so far refused this blatant extortion. I'm not so sure. I think the EU should pay the compensation in goods. Explosive goods. Delivered from high altitude. Because arresting foreign workers, holding a show trial, and condemning them to death in order to excuse your own piss-poor health system crosses the line from political stunt to justifiable casus belli. It may be too late to save these medics, no matter what we do, but this scenario cannot be repeated. Aid workers are literally holding Africa together with their teeth at this point. If dictators discover that arresting them and holding them for ransom will solve their political problems, the entire continent could come apart, and nobody wants that.
But, if you absolutely cannot handle taking any form of action, you can instead go to one of your hospitals, arrest some foreign medical workers, accuse them of infecting children with AIDS, hold a trial, extract some confessions under torture, ignore essentially every expert in the freakin' book, and then sentence them to death.
Libya claims that if they receive 10 million Euros in compensation, that they will release the prisoners. Bulgaria has so far refused this blatant extortion. I'm not so sure. I think the EU should pay the compensation in goods. Explosive goods. Delivered from high altitude. Because arresting foreign workers, holding a show trial, and condemning them to death in order to excuse your own piss-poor health system crosses the line from political stunt to justifiable casus belli. It may be too late to save these medics, no matter what we do, but this scenario cannot be repeated. Aid workers are literally holding Africa together with their teeth at this point. If dictators discover that arresting them and holding them for ransom will solve their political problems, the entire continent could come apart, and nobody wants that.