tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883131172123152234.post7530502960545896212..comments2023-08-20T16:29:20.381+01:00Comments on Poet at Jaybern: Ebola - Too Little, Too LateJohn Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00020697451985437188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883131172123152234.post-377674946169385602014-09-26T21:15:45.835+01:002014-09-26T21:15:45.835+01:00Richard, Thank you for your comment, I am glad you...Richard, Thank you for your comment, I am glad you found the poem frightening, as you so rightly stated I intended it to be. The rest of the world draws so much from Africa, and yet we pay so little interest in what happens there. At least until it threatens us, or people like the WHO and MSF manage to prick our consciences sufficiently for us to take action. The sad thing is more often than not our media do not find African problems sufficiently 'sexy' to report.<br />As for the error, thanks for pointing it out, I have corrected it.John Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00020697451985437188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883131172123152234.post-18294313973394334222014-09-26T20:47:21.700+01:002014-09-26T20:47:21.700+01:00A very powerful poem, JB, and frightening too, as ...A very powerful poem, JB, and frightening too, as I'm sure you intended it to be. I poem should disturb and change the way we think about things: this one did. I'll read my newspapers more diligently in future and home in on this growing crisis.<br />One typo I should mention: 'boarders' should be 'borders'. Richard Flemingnoreply@blogger.com