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People have nothing to worry about, Dr. Ebola was only fevering/sweating on subway poles touched by hundreds of other people and then went bowling in sweaty rental shoes and rolled communal bowling balls over and over and over. What could go wrong?
Not right now no but the problem is if this isn't nipped in the bud exponential growth gets ugly fast. It's not necessarily a bad idea to start getting in the habits of good hygiene (washing hands, not touching your face, etc.) and minimizing eating out sooner rather than later, even if plastic gloves are overkill at this stage.
Minimize eating out? Amazing how the media just turns people into sheep. Did eating out in West Africa lend a hand to the Ebola outbreak there? What, do you people just wait for the Internet and media to guide you through life or what?
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I truly hope the naysayers are correct. Only an insane person wouldn't want to see Seventhfloor laughing at all of us a few months from now. The big problem is that the position of people like him seems to be increasingly unlikely to pan out. The only question remaining is "How bad will it get before it ends?"
Others are simply parrotting the progessive/Obama/liberal line of "nothing to see here, government will fix all." After all, those people exist solely to parrot the progressive/Obama/liberal line on all topics.
Oh, so you think if you send Africa some gloves it will help them??? Jesus Christ
7th, given more time, I will be able to figure out how ebola infects and kills ppl, but I am not sure I will ever be able to figure out why you are so insanely against ppl being cautions concerned by a deadly virus that we know so little about at the moment...
There are many fatal viruses still slaughtering people by the thousands in the third world. Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Malaria, et cetera. Other than the millions in the third world that die every year first worlders are infected by these diseases and they do occasionally bring them back to the first world. Why is Yellow Fever not a story? In fact I am once removed from someone that died from Yellow Fever last year. Where was that news story? Have you been to the third world? Ubiquitous viral threats like Yellow fever are major concern, Ebola not so much.
Ebola is a difficult disease to transmit and easily isolated. Yes, ebola it is awful for the unfortunate victim and likely fatal if acquired but Ebola is like chainsaw accidents. Very rare, likely fatal but Ebola like chainsaw accidents are easy to avoid. I assure you that more people die in North American chainsaw accidents than in ebola deaths. In fact more people have died this year in inflatable amusement recreation devices than will die from ebola. Nobody ever talks about chainsaw accidents or inflatable recreation device deaths.
Inflatable bouncy house horrors - statistically more dangerous than ebola. Ebola is a story that someone that controls the cultural choke points decided to make a top story. It is amazing how a non-issue like ebola can come to dominate the minds of so many with so many real pressing concerns in the world.
This story is fear mongering
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How relevent is your argument?
Just because there are other significant causes of death, we should give up defending ourselves from new health-threatening events? Please explain.
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well God bless the little hearts of those Americans and European's for going over to west Africa to help contain Ebola, it is commendable,...but I guess it is to be expected if they go there, to help, they will likely pick up the virus themselves, and transport it back to their home countries, so they should get tested prior to leaving Africa and prior to boarding any planes... imo.
There are many fatal viruses still slaughtering people by the thousands in the third world. Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Malaria, et cetera. Other than the millions in the third world that die every year first worlders are infected by these diseases and they do occasionally bring them back to the first world. Why is Yellow Fever not a story? In fact I am once removed from someone that died from Yellow Fever last year. Where was that news story? Have you been to the third world? Ubiquitous viral threats like Yellow fever are major concern, Ebola not so much.
Ebola is a difficult disease to transmit and easily isolated. Yes, ebola it is awful for the unfortunate victim and likely fatal if acquired but Ebola is like chainsaw accidents. Very rare, likely fatal but Ebola like chainsaw accidents are easy to avoid. I assure you that more people die in North American chainsaw accidents than in ebola deaths. In fact more people have died this year in inflatable amusement recreation devices than will die from ebola. Nobody ever talks about chainsaw accidents or inflatable recreation device deaths.
Inflatable bouncy house horrors - statistically more dangerous than ebola. Ebola is a story that someone that controls the cultural choke points decided to make a top story. It is amazing how a non-issue like ebola can come to dominate the minds of so many with so many real pressing concerns in the world.
This story is fear mongering
^Finally some logic. The lack of understanding and rational thinking shown here is more frightening than the virus itself.
If a disaster ever goes down here, I would want to be no where near any of you fear mongering idiots. More of you would die from the riots and chaos you'd incite. So keep watching the news and let it scare you senseless, they're loving the ratings.
I truly hope the naysayers are correct. Only an insane person wouldn't want to see Seventhfloor laughing at all of us a few months from now. The big problem is that the position of people like him seems to be increasingly unlikely to pan out. The only question remaining is "How bad will it get before it ends?"
Others are simply parrotting the progessive/Obama/liberal line of "nothing to see here, government will fix all." After all, those people exist solely to parrot the progressive/Obama/liberal line on all topics.
Yes, you're all going to look very silly in a few months, but I don't think you'll learn anything from it.
The most important thing you could learn would be that the epidemiology of Ebola, like so many things in the world, has little or nothing to do with Obama or "progressives" or politics of any kind. Again, though, I know this won't sink in.
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