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‘Band Aid 30’ Christmas Song ‘Cringeworthy’ – Ebola Survivor – 9 December 2014

RT logoA British nurse who survived Ebola said the lyrics of the Band Aid 30 single to raise money for anti-Ebola charities are embarrassing and ignorant.

William Pooley, 29, contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in August, but survived after having been evacuated in a military airplane and treated with the experimental drug ZMapp in London.

He said the song is “definitely being talked about here among my colleagues.”

“But stuff about ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ It’s just like, actually people live normal lives here and do normal things,” he told the Radio Times magazine.

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