“Duh, Ebola isn’t as bad as they say!” -liberal idiot.
Heard some people talking, there are idiots that seriously believe Ebola is only 40 to 70% fatal in Africa and will magically somehow be less fatal here because “reasons”.
We know that Ebola is spreading in Africa because of reasons A, B and C. We do not have them here. However we may have reasons D, E and F that Africa does not have. Political correctness is one of them. Well armed population, law-abiding and otherwise, is another. Inner cities with one ER providing all the medical services is yet another. Well-informed population that *will* go overboard at first signs of trouble is another. Hardly anyone is prepped to shelter in place for weeks - this means that quarantine cannot be enforced, as food has to be delivered and distributed. Who knows what other reasons may the USA have that Africans don't.
But there is one reason that is common to Africa and the USA. That is willingness to mislead, obfuscate and lie about danger. The last example of that was seen in the episode of two unprotected guys power-washing a poodle with a few trillion of virus particles. They just vaporized it into a fine mist, inhaled a few billion that were blown by the wind in their direction, and then washed it all away into a storm drain... for rats to eat up. That cleanup company was lied to; they say that they were called by the building manager to clean up a squashed armadillo, or something like that. They certainly didn't know what they are up against. Is anyone going to check the health of those sewer rats? (They probably won't get sick at all.)