Thursday, November 06, 2014
Too polite
BBC just briefly interviewed an official spokesman for Kenya's tourism office. He's a very diplomatic man. He was making the point that Kenya is a long way from the Ebola hot zone, and has very little contact with those countries. Kenya mainly "looks eastward", with lots of connections to India and China.
He could have made a much stronger point.
Countries where Ebola is still running out of control:
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia.
Countries where Ebola has arrived and has been stopped:
Senegal, Nigeria.
Countries where Ebola has arrived and is not yet stopped:
Mali, Congo, US, UK, Spain, Germany.
Note that Kenya is not on those lists. Ebola has not arrived there.
Stronger point: If you're a British tourist who wants to avoid countries where Ebola may pose a danger, you should LEAVE BRITAIN NOW! and go to Kenya.
Or an even stronger point that the Kenyan tourism minister wouldn't want to say, but ordinary Kenyans might want to say: If you're a British tourist, you could bring Ebola to Kenya. Stay home.
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