Back on October 18, our own Nicholas Stix wrote on the subject of "On Being Culturally and Biologically Enriched by West Africa's Ebola Zone" and observed,

But Duncan’s family has bigger concerns, like positioning itself for a lawsuit. With no sense of shame, Josephus Weeks (or his plaintiff attorney) writes,

Now, Dallas suffers. Our country is concerned. [NS: He means the US, not Liberia] Greatly. About the lack of answers and transparency coming from a hospital whose ignorance, incompetence and indecency has yet to be explained. I write this on behalf of my family because we want to set the record straight about what happened and ensure that Thomas Eric did not die in vain…

The fact is, nine days passed between my uncle’s first ER visit and the day the hospital asked our consent to give him an experimental drug — but despite the hospital’s request they were never able to access these drugs for my uncle. [NS: Hospital officials have said they started giving Duncan the drug Brincidofovir on October 4.]He died alone. His only medication was a saline drip. [Exclusive: Ebola didn’t have to kill Thomas Eric Duncan, nephew says, October 14, 2014, updated 16 October 2014.]

However, the fact is Duncan eventually did receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of treatment despite having no insurance and being a foreigner. There is no cure for Ebola; different therapies have been tried, but the ones Weeks is complaining about were either temporarily exhausted (ZMapp) or improper (Duncan had the wrong blood type to get a plasma transfusion from Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantley). And it is unclear whether they work anyway. [Dallas Hospital Responds to Criticisms of Ebola Patient's Treatment by Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post, October 10, 2014.]

Weeks even manages to simultaneously claim that Duncan was “courageous” for helping an Ebola patient in Liberia but also that the incident “never happened.” This is critical because that woman is the supposed source of his infection.

However, other reports citing Duncan’s relatives claim that the incident did happen, and that Duncan mistook a woman dying of Ebola as having a miscarriage. [Before his death, Duncan said he mistook Ebola case in Liberia for miscarriage; never lied by Avi Selk, Dallas Morning News, October 8, 2014.]

The only constant in all these wild stories: Liberians in general and Duncan in particular are victims of the West—and someone has to pay.