Posted on 08/04/2014 9:26:06 PM PDT by BlopAndStop
What caused you to excerpt your own blog?
Like so many things the left is wrong about, apparently they must believe they are immune. Therefore, not their problem; “STFU!”
“Why is the media being so... blasé about this?”
They just want to take both sides of the argument. After trying their level best to create a public panic, which really has nowhere to go if you think about it, now they are trying to assert control over the other side of the debate.
They do not want to interfere with Obama’s utopia. Imagine this same Ebola scenario happening under a Republican administration.
I got to say, it is a bad time for me to begin reading Dan Brown’s Inferno.
This from the newspaper in the city that gave us the 9-11 suicide hijackers and the Boston Marathon Bombers. Rich.
But what about the current changes in OUR situation? Medical care is not as good as it was, and could be overwhelmed by this illness, illnesses of and spread by the Central American hordes, people coming back to the US from all over the globe for the start of the school year. The strains on the economy probably have led to more poorly maintained ventilation systems and more people living on the edge. The numbers of people not speaking English and not aware of US health protocals has increased.
What needs to be done is stabilizie the US population, makie the world healthier and having less disruptions from war, and some honesty about potentially dangerous situations and what we as individuals can do to avoid being exposed to some dread disease.
What we're getting is none of the above.
I can’t disagree with your assessment.
Thinking about potential pandemics like a new strain of flu, which we have not had in quite a while, by it’s self would put a huge strain on the system, potentially leading to a national disaster.
No question about it.
But I don’t see Ebola causing that strain, I see much more danger in the ultra rapid spreading Flu virus or viruses of it’s type. The death rate is far lower but the damages would be far more numerically costly.
AIDS, Legionairre's Disease, and Lyme Disease are three relatively recent situations the US medical system has absorbed. There must be a limit to how many it can absorb, especially with our expanded third world population and a larger percentage of the population economically challenged.
Well, when considering Ebola, I try to keep in mind that until this last multiple location outbreak in West Africa, the disease, as scary as it is, had killed less than 2000 people since 1976.
Based on the crowded conditions, If the virus was more mobile, the damages would have been many times greater, but the virus is not that mobile and is only transmitted in great numbers at the patients end stage of infection when they obviously can’t travel.
When you look at this and a number of other factors. I have to conclude that at this time, with this specific virus, It is unlikely to become a wide ranging issue, especially in the US. But I think that the EU is more likely to see it then we are because of their vast numbers of migrants from Africa.
All this taken into account, I don’t feel threatened by it..as a American. I would if I were in Africa, but based on what I am seeing, they are not nearly as concerned as we are. (or seem to be)
I’m with the chart. But people won’t listen. There’s a large group of people who desperately want to worry about EVERYTHING. If they can’t find something to be freaked out about they’ll make one. It’s the same crowd that insisted Swine Flu2 was gonna get us, and SARS, and Bird Flu, and West Nile, and insists every flu season is the worst one ever. They’re sad really. Yeah, Ebola is a pretty scary bug, but it’s scary enough to burn itself out and even though this outbreak is the worst one ever it still hasn’t killed as many people as the regular flu does every year.
So, yeah, STFU is actually pretty sound advice... that none of the people who need it will take.
If your fear is infectious disease the right time for public rallies is never. Think about it.
Why is the media being so... blasé about this?
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They are just following the talking points from the WH.
Yeah, I don’t know how on earth those hundreds in Africa that died got this thing, I guess shark never heard of germs spreading. Or someone sneezing into his hand, then shaking hands with others. Nope, it just never happens huh?
Why would you shake someone's hand!?
That's just asking for ebola.
LOL, well, you’re right about that.
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