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Measles raced ahead and they were able to drag Disney's name through the mud. So a win win. And the doomsday crowd was getting impatient because Ebola didn't turn people into raving drooling beasts. So now it's defend against the measles
I always thought this whole Ebola thing was way overblown, and most of all it demonstrated the average American's gullibility with respect to being oh so eager towards supporting the draconian measures of quarantining they were doing even in cases where the risk of transmission was practically zero.
I totally supported the nurse (I forget her name) who opposed the quarantine and made a huge fuss about her civil rights being violated. I know full well that, in light of their aggressive quarantine procedures they were doing, I'd not disclosed any symptoms had they occurred, I'd kept quiet and handled matters myself based on what the Health Department's recommendations were (self-monitoring etc). Like h-e-double-l I'd gone along willingly with a 21-day legalized kidnapping period over a 1 in a trillion risk of transmission like a "good little comrade" just because people were being ridiculously paranoid. No, thank you.
Did we beat Ebola or did the news media get tired of trying to make it a "pandemic"
In the United States? Of course we beat it. It should have been obvious all along to anyone with even half a clue that in a country with a fully developed modern medical infrastructure that any Ebola outbreak that occurred would be quickly contained.
And that is precisely what happened.
Once that did happen, the hysteria over Ebola here in the West was exposed as so transparently idiotic that the media quickly moved on to other stories. The fear-mongers also moved on to beat other drums, hoping the gullible masses wouldn't notice how hopelessly wrong they were.
It continues to rage in West Arfrica, however, with hundreds of new cases and 100+ deaths weekly - total cases and deaths for the outbreak now top 22,000 & 8,800, respectively.
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Funny thread. Let's hear more!
