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Threat to Americans: The flu kills thousands of Americans every year, many times more people than Ebola. The elderly and infirm are especially at risk. Worse-case scenario: An especially bad outbreak in 2004 killed 48,000 Americans.
The problem with trying to use that figure to rationalize with people is that the number of people who actually die from the flu are about .00013% of the population of the U.S. The rest of the population just sees the flu as something that knocks you down for a day or two and you go back to work. It will never be taken seriously by a majority of Americans unless maybe a relative or close friend of theirs dies. Even then, since that person likely had other health complications anyway, it won't have much of an impact on them in terms of the seriousness of it.
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