He's got a point. Where's the hysteria over traffic deaths?
Posted on 08/05/2014 6:59:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’re now witnessing the worst Ebola epidemic ever — and on your list of worries it belongs . . . nowhere.
Here’s a rule of thumb about diseases: The rarer and less likely they are to kill you, the more hype they get. The New York Times ran more than 2,000 articles on SARS, which ultimately killed zero Americans.
This is only the deadliest outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease because past ones were so tiny. At this writing, there have been 1,603 reported cases in Africa and 887 deaths.
That’s too many. But every day about 600 sub-Saharan Africans die of tuberculosis, and contagious diarrhea claims the lives of 2,195 children, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria, syphilis, AIDS and probably dozens of other diseases each year kill Africans at higher rates than Ebola is killing right now.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No rumor is true until the government issues a denial...
I’m familiar also with Michael Fumento’s work, and agree with your assessment. He doesn’t write just to be writing.
none sense
Just like to point out -
Toledo water issues? Check
MERS? Check
MSRA? Check
MDR-TB? Check
We’d like to think we are “above” 3rd world countries, but these are all concerns currently in the U.S. and our travel is more sophisticated thereby possibly spreading an issue more quickly.
Best to prepare while not panicking.
And he suffered a lot for being right. He was forced out of his job at the Rocky Mountain News.
He's got a point. Where's the hysteria over traffic deaths?
Mike, I don’t discount that Ebola may not be that big a concern. I still think that when we’re talking about a disease that makes you bleed to death, maintaining a healthy fear of it is a good idea.
Hey, heck yeah. Let’s send the whole lot of Washington Post reporters, editors, and and columnist to west Africa. I won’t worry at all about ‘em.
Good point. I think it was IowaHawk that posted something on Twitter about how he has friends that text and talk on the phone all the time while driving... but are afraid they will die from ebola!
My 2 cents:
Given our free-for-all border situation, I believe Ebola is a concern. But I won’t lose sleep over it. I view the media hysteronics as Bronco Bama’s directed sideshow from the flood of Mexican/Central American illegals — when my kids go back to school in three weeks, I’ll be counting the number of Juan’s and Maria’s. G-Dammit, if I need to prove my kids have had immunizations, they’d better not to sitting next to a taxpayer-funded tuberculosis incubator.
This outbreak is larger than previous outbreaks. Do you they know why? Could it have mutated?
How long can the virus survive outside the body? I thought I read 3 days. Is this an increase?
And there are only 12 million illegals in the U.S.
We know this because we've been told this for 28 years now.
Could be a fluke, could be the disease has changed. I do not know.
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Found this just the other day - the article was early in the outbreak, thus the low fatality numbers. Usually the outbreaks are in more isolated Central Africa, but this is in Western Africa (where travel centers are which makes it harder to quarantine, spread easier):
West African Ebola outbreak caused by new strain of disease: study
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/17/us-guinea-ebola-idUSBREA3G11W20140417
I also saw where the person who discovered Ebola says this IS Ebola-Zaire .... article dated Aug 1[GOOD Ebola info in this article], He is worried about it spreading to INDIA .... that had not occurred to me, but it’s definitely on his radar. He says: “Ebola outbreaks are always happening in a context of poverty, dysfunctional health services with poor infection control and hygiene practices. If someone with Ebola is admitted to such an environment anywhere in the world, that will give rise to outbreaks.”
It’s the deadliest strain, says the man who discovered Ebola
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Its-the-deadliest-strain-says-the-man-who-discovered-Ebola/articleshow/39434060.cm
The difference this time is our luck finally ran out. It jumped from small isolated villages where it quickly outstripped the number of victims, to huge mobile urban populations where it has plenty of fresh victims. That’s the difference this time.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-outbreak-could-be-much-worse-than-thought/
We HAD TB contained here with strict public health rules so the threat was negligible ( one of the keys being screening immigrants by the way).
We don’t worry about infectious diarrhea because we treat our water and have good sanitation. Ditto malaria with above and mosquito eradication, and AIDS requires near suicidal behavior.
New infectious diseases with high mortality rates are another kettle of fish.
Panic? No. Concern, you bet.
Gee you mean like Honduras, southern Mexico and El Salvadore?
I mean if it gets established there, how could that affect us?
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Of possible interest.
Question to everyone: Great fanfar when the Ohio woman’s test came back Negative.
The first “announced” case in NY - there has been no update which I’ve seen either way.
Anyone else see a result returned? It’s the lack of information that sometimes points to something.
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