Meh. I remember the dire warnings even here on FR about how devastating Ebola was. It wasn’t. Even where the main outbreak was, it really wasn’t.
Thing is, I have a theory about why it just doesn’t hit european american (or native american) populations all that bad. History states that both were severely hit by plagues that wiped out from 1/3 to 90% of the population (the latter applies to native americans before Columbus but after the Vikings arrived).
We are the progeny of the survivors. i.e. much tougher when it comes to disease. The same is not true of the African and Asian populations. The weak genes have not been effectively weeded out by nature yet.
But this is just an hypothesis based on marginal knowledge. The thing is, when these diseases hit here, they always - and I mean ALWAYS - fizzle. Truth be told, I think part of it is because the breathless reporting is not warranted in the first place.
I remember during Ebola I said that when 3,000 Americans die within a 12 month period, I’ll become concerned. Obviously that did not happen.
Wrong. Each cycle gets worse. All along the Congo river are forms of hemorrgagic fever. Not just ebola. The first known case was found by Belgium nuns in the 1950s in a hospital in the Congo but wasn’t called ebola, not the 1976 cases. Each cycle since then, the virus has “weakened” and this has made it MORE dangerous as it can spread further as people run away instead of wiping out the entire village in 24 hours.
NIGERIA helped firewall the last spread because they put in strong border controls as well as LOCAL area border controls in sectors of the country, this helped.
They put in controls we don’t.
It isn’t just TB, Zika, ebola, yellow fever, it is a horde of diseases and dangers presented by our open borders, illegal aliens, “refugees” who are coming in hordes now due to political correctness and no immigration health checks and firewalls. You are wrong. All this is a serious threat, and the same political correctness in the name of cheap labor is now attacking and censoring science.
Possibly another factor would be the personal and the public hygiene practices found here in the US — for now.