Ebola

Fate of Western Africa

The geographic themes of movement and interaction prove that geography is destiny. because people are stuck not able to move, and they have not interacted/developed their communities enough to fight a disease like Ebola.

The movement theme of geography shows that, no person, idea, or thing has to stay put. According to "Overwhelming" response needed to curb Ebola in West Africa, Ebola is moving very quickly through countries that don’t have very good practices. It is hard for people to migrate to another country when their whole life is devoted to a small part in a small tribe. They are pinned in their position waiting for the disease to come to them. It may not be a very quick disease, but it moves enough to get around in third-world West-African countries.
 
Interaction plays a very big part in whether or not countries like Liberia are able to respond to Ebola and other diseases like it. According to Why U.S. must lead Ebola fight  “Yet, the most impacted countries do not have health care delivery systems capable of attaining those goals. There are simply not enough clinics, hospitals or health care workers -- much less insurance coverage. Thus, these nations are unable to mount necessary responses to the outbreak, especially after years of instability and war in some countries” This shows that people in these countries haven’t interacted with their environment nearly as much as a place like America where we have all of those things. Being born into those places was a destiny for them, they don’t have enough capacity in their communities to grow enough in such a short time to become strong like many developed countries. Therefore, I believe that geography is destiny.

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