[Vince Ferrer]

You can sit and do the math on man-hours. For each single person that comes up with Ebola...you can figure at least 3,000 man-hours tied up into this guy, tracking his friends and family down, testing them, and trying to prevent further issues. You can figure by March of next year...at least 10,000 people in Texas who have contracted the disease, and the whole system overcome with man-hours that they can’t sustain. Just figure one single McDonalds that a guy might visit and having the entire crew put on quarantine. Or a Wal-Mart visit....where the 300 employees are now quarantined.

If ebola really gets going here, it will spread through the schools. Pitchforks will come out if this concentrates on kids.

[samtheman]

Pitchforks will come out if this concentrates on kids.

Really? I haven't seen much fighting back against the communist takeover of our country so far. I find it hard to believe this -- or anything -- will change the fundamental complacency of the American people.

[pepsionice]

I would figure that by December of 2015....most American schools will go through the Ebola ‘scare’, and shut down operations for three months minimum. How they arrange for the kid to get credit, or just dismiss school for 2015/2016...will be a big question mark. A lot of folks will go ballistic because they think it puts their kid behind a year.

Added to this...how does a university function, if it shuts down for four or five months due to Ebola? An NCAA football schedule completely cancelled? An NFL season cancelled? A TV series suspended because two of it’s main actors are in some quarantine?