I say ebola is media sensationalism. We’ve been scared with bird flu word flu turd flu and MRSA, swine flu bine flu pine flu and SARS, hanta virus, banta virus, panta virus and now ebola virus. The very next time there’s a disease that isn’t brought over the border, they will be cooking up all sorts of fears.
It isn’t any different than the OJ Simpson, or how they ramped up before the Branch Davidians were exterminated for their own good, or what the planned to do with the Unibomber trial that never happened because of a plea bargain. Ebola, more after these messages.
It doesn’t change the fact that only a few more than 3000 people have died in an epidemic in Africa, out of hundreds of millions of people who live on the continent. You just know that the liberals in the media are salivating at wet-dream proportions in anticipation of the death of millions of Americans, and then they would get all of the abandoned stuff. Of course it won’t happen, but they will exaggerate the deaths of elderly and otherwise immunocompromised people to make it seem like a huge disaster, and we will all turn on our TVs to the major networks to see what they have to say.
And while we are waiting for real news, we can watch the important messages from the sponsors, and since they have 30 minutes to fill, you can watch the latest Democrat propaganda. So keep playing into their hands and pray that their wish comes true, and that millions of liberals succumb to their epidemic of choice.
I tended to think that way until I read “The Hot Zone” last month. We are dealing with a real existential threat here, not media hype.
Would you go to Liberia, right at this moment- to contain the virus spread? How about the other populations centers, about to go hot?
“We’ve been scared with bird flu word flu turd flu and MRSA, swine flu bine flu pine flu and SARS, hanta virus, banta virus, panta virus and now ebola virus. “
Bird/human and Swine/human flu hybrids do something that normal human flu does not do and that is to kill very large numbers of young adults in the prime of their lives. It uses their strong immune systems against them and they drown in their own antibodies. The 1918 flu was the last major flu of this sort to go around.
Every time an animal/human flu hybrid develops it has the potential to be as deadly as the 1918 flu and it is more important to be vaccinated against it than for a normal flu. SARS is a similar virus that has crossed from animals to humans but it is much more rare than the flu.
MRSA is a staphylococcus aureus bacteria resistant to virtually every antibiotic we have. You’re pretty much on your own if you get that one. The flesh eating bacteria that can cause the loss of every limb on your body is a form of MRSA.
Hanta virus is a hemorrhagic fever virus found in the American Southwest. You can catch it from dry mouse droppings. 20 years ago a young couple I know went camping in the California desert and a week or two after they returned the wife came down with the flu. Only it wasn’t the flu it was Hantavirus and it killed her. She was 30 yrs old and very athletic.
Your point is somewhat valid in that Ebola is not particularly easy to catch. It is extremely serious though, a couple of virons can ultimately kill you. My worst fear is that the terrorists khow this and turn it into a WMD. That would not be difficult at all.