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Oct 10, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
The World Health Organization says that Ebola’s presence in Europe is unavoidable, but the continent has the resources to contain an outbreak. The obvious question to ask is if a country like Guyana – one of the poorest economies in the world – with abominable shortcomings in state services – can survive an Ebola outbreak?
Anyone who lived here will know the answer is no, it cannot. No one wishes illness and death onto others, but self-destructive people should be shown no sympathy. This is a self-destructive nation. It manifests all the characteristics of a country journeying aimlessly to the precipice.
The best analogy I can think of is Germany under the Nazi Party. The German people welcomed Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1930. They handed them substantial votes that allowed him to enter Parliament in 1933. The German people in the twenties were tired and pessimistic. The defeat in the First World War, and the paranoia and economic hardship, made Hitler an attractive presence.
Then Hitler began to show his true colours. Hitler was obsessed with power and domination. As Germany became a disturbed society, consuming its citizenry, the German people remained unmoved, until it was too late. Hitler’s power obsession and the silence of the German people brought about the virtual destruction of Germany in 1945.
One of the saddest sights to see, about human misery, is the hopelessness of the German people as they wander around their burn out cities in 1945. The young and the old, and the babies in mother’s embrace looking for food and shelter, looking for tomorrow.
The picture resembles an imaginary Guyana after Ebola strikes. The parallel of Nazi Germany with Guyana is so uncanny. Even though Hoyte brought hope and satisfaction, the Guyanese people welcomed a Jagan Government in 1992. The population felt that the PNC had a mammoth spell and it was time to give another party a chance. Jagan wasn’t that terrible, but the signs were there that PPP and ethnic domination was coming.
It came with Bharrat Jagdeo. He showed no interest in state services and public infrastructure. The first casualty was the Botanic Gardens. The animals died, the trees died, the gardens died. The University of Guyana was next. This is one death that the Guyanese people should be ashamed of. Only an infected, morbid mind would accept that the University of Guyana is a functioning entity. There are high schools in poor African and Latin American countries that make UG look like an abandoned building in the 19th century. Compare UG to an elementary school in Europe or North America.
The third casualty was Georgetown itself. The people of Guyana, with very few exceptions, accept to dwell in the filthiest, dirtiest, foul-smelling city in the entire world. Every day there is some celebration or the other among this filth. There is an asinine hat show by some mindless group whose name I cannot remember, right in the middle of the garbage in the Promenade Gardens, where the smell of the single washroom permeates the air.
There are groups like the Lions and Jaycees that are immersed in their ego-tripping public escapades and are shamelessly oblivious to the ubiquitous mountains of miasma. This rotting capital of Guyana hides the true picture.
I went to Block 8 of Mon Repos to visit someone. The entire district is laden with garbage on every street. All the trenches and parapets on every street look like the forests in the interior. My host told me he just returned from an American holiday and what he sees in Block 8 has him very depressed.
Amidst these debaucheries, ignorance of life prevails. The middle class and the rich stratum deeply believe in their minds that if Ebola should come to Guyana, they would fly out. How stupid can a human be? Ebola causes death within days. And who says your intended country will let you in to receive treatment? Ebola is very infectious.
If there is a God, he treats Guyanese in a special place in his heart. It has to be the work of God that prevents literally hundreds of thousands of Guyanese within the space of days from being knocked down with Chikungunya. All over Guyana are unweeded trenches, alleys, gutters. Mosquitoes have to be in these places by the trillions, not billions. The hand of God is protecting Guyana.
If Ebola comes, can an abandoned country like Guyana escape this decimation? God will save those who have spoken out against misrule that has caused garbage to overrun Guyana. God knows such people have paid their obligation to their country. Ebola will only strike down the self-destructive ones.
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