Come ebola or bombs, we're ready to put on a show

A waiter walks through an empty lounge at Voi Wildlife Lodge in Tsavo East. Violence in parts of the Coast has made the tourism low season even less profitable. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/ STANDARD]

Peals of laughter reverberated throughout the country yesterday after Kenyans heard the parental authority’s latest joke; that it is prepared to deal with Ebola, the contagion that has reportedly killed more than 700 people in West Africa.

The infectious laughter started when Kenyans with access to the Internet visited the parental authority’s new websites, dedicated to the war on Ebola and numerous other ills.