[plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

Simon Scott sscott at iinet.net.au
Mon Feb 3 08:21:48 WST 2003


> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Roughly 5000 children are killed by diarrhoea every day, a similar number
of 
> > people by AIDS, heaps more by Sickle Cell Aneamia or Malaria, heaps more
by 
> > starvation.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Now, that is what I call a real tragedy.
> 

Yeh, especially since these poor kids werent given the option of getting
diarrhoea, werent trained for 10 years to have it, and didnt have the risks
associated with diarrhoea explained to them in fine detail.....




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