“…so why aren’t the “Oh, no! The Earth is overpopulated!”-types dancing with joy?”
What makes you think that they aren’t?
Seriously, Ebola is a lousy “plague” type disease because it doesn’t spread easily enough. If worst came to worst, a 24/7 curfew for a week or two would probably break the cycle. Those survivalists might have the right idea here, I think I’m going to put some weeks of water and canned food in the basement...and, maybe get some ammo.
Using simple math on this can be a dangerous thing to do. Things like this take lots of twists and turns.
Simply the fact that it pops up here instead of Eastern Africa or Europe must have folks in Atlanta scratching their heads.
These projections are akin to the financial returns everyone was using in the 90’s. Funny thing happened on the way to the easy, early retirement.
Normalcy bias is a tough thing to overcome. Just because something is, and has been, it doesn’t mean it will be.
This sentence is a non-sequitur if the previous sentence is anywhere near accurate.