[oh8eleven]

this is nothing like AIDS, which was totally overblown and hyped, the first political disease.
I remember life's losers telling us back in the early '80s that within 10 years, we'd all know someone in our families with AIDS.
Here we are 35 years later, and I still have never (knowingly) even met anyone with AIDS.

[notdownwidems]

Well unfortunately I can’t say that, as I had a ‘gay’ brother who died of spinal meningitis, complication from HIV...he died a horrible death; very smart guy, national merit scholarship finalist in high school, attended Georgetown University, but he just couldn’t escape that ‘gay’ demon!
But I do remember the global-warming style alarmism back in the 80’s, where EVERYONE was going to get AIDS...oh brother!

[Veto!]

Having lived in San Francisco, I do know people who have AIDS, and some who died from it. At the beginning of the AIDs epidemic, they did not really know how it was transmitted. Very sad. I felt so sorry for AIDs victims, and also afraid for my own health. (I’m female). After it was determined to be sexually transmitted, many of the gays kept on having unprotected sex. No longer could I feel sorry for them; enraged is more like it.

AIDS is now contained; anyone who comes down with it volunteers.

Ebola is an equal-opportunity virus, much more deadly and far easier to spread.