That characterization is undeserved, and with your 20-20 hindsight, many of the unknowns of the time have been removed by studying the current outbreak. The disease is still extant, only the information on what is going on has gone away.
Awkward things like inadequate protocols from the CDC and the fact that there were only 22 level 4 beds in the US get swept under the rug that way. After all, it is somewhat embarrassing for the "Obamacare" administration to be caught with its pants down in the face of a potentially serious biological threat, and the possibility of biological agents being intentionally released by terrorists always looms in the background. It takes very little "What if?" to realize there are wholly inadequate means for dealing with a serious biological threat here, the borders are worse than porous with illegal immigration encouraged, and the safeguards virtually nonexistent.
To be tediously repetitive, there were only twenty two BSL-4 beds in the entire US, and the one case outside of such containment led to two more.
Now, about your serious case of normalcy bias.
Just because it hasn't happened yet does not mean it will not (actually we have had a pandemic here, although it only killed 2.5% of the people infected).
I have no incentive to evoke panic, nor would I want to do so. Panic is counterproductive.
I do want people to be informed, because being informed allows people to assess any risk and take appropriate action as needed to minimize that risk.
The government lied about Ebola, and about its level of preparation for such an outbreak should it occur, insisting any hospital with an isolation unit could handle the disease.
Aside from a disease that has killed over 10000 people (yes, Africans are people, too), the way our government lied should be cause for concern.
We dodged the bullet this time. Instead of taking that for the wake-up call it should be, all things considered, looking back on a disaster that did not happen and using that as justification for the stance that it can't happen here is ludicrous.
That isn't hysteria, it is just calling for responsible preparation for a pandemic event that is going to happen again sooner or later.
I suppose we could all spend our time watching reruns of Keeping up with the Kardashians instead, but then you wouldn't have anyone to get hyperbolic and snooty with.
20-20 hindsight, I knew it from the beginning, why didn’t you and the others?
20-20 hindsight is dishonest to say, my posts and my links show that we knew all this stuff when you guys were pushing the hysterics and the fantasies, that is why I could call Ben Carson and Rand Paul idiots when they made their statements.
Here you are still trying to argue like this was a year ago, when do you just admit that the hysterics were clueless and wrong?