Yep
This Ebola crap is insane.
We were gonna die from Bird Flu to the point Mexico shut down government services a few years back.
I went to the Mayan Riviera for a week and yep, anything run by the government was shut down.
However, I didn’t wait in line for anything run privately.
Best part? I didnt get sick, at all.
I did give myself a nasty 6 inch gash on my leg while zip lining.
No problem. Just washed it down with bottled water, hydrogen peroxide and sprayed a bandage on it...
This Ebola crap is the same deal.
some jerk off comes to America with Ebola and dies.
Some people who cared for this evil bastard got sick or are suspected.
hardly an epidemic.
some 20,000 people died last year from Staph or what we call. MRAPS.
no one is freaking out about that?
Nearly 40,000 died last year from the flu. What? No howling?
Just about the same number of people died from automobile accidents as well.
still no alarm?
Stop with the insanity surrounding this one dead guy.
Here here ... bravisimo !!!
You make some very good points. It’s time adopt a wait and see attitude. We will know if there is real cause to worry in a couple more weeks. Hopefully there will be no more cases or deaths. If health care workers continue to get sick and die I’d say we have a real problem.
I believe the panic and stupidity by the masses is because of how Ebola kills people. Bleeding out, projectile vomit, high fever, etc. descriptions of Duncan and other pictures/videos of end stage Ebola victims are pretty gruesome. And the fact that according to the MSDS, Ebola is a BSL level4 infectious virus. Doesn’t say much for the folks who said it’s hard to be infected by this.
I’ve not heard of the bird flu, flu, swine flu killing folks the same way.
Just an observation. I’m not panicking just aware.
The difference in ebola and the diseases you mention is ebola infects both the healthy and those with compromised immune systems.
The transmission mechanism is very similar, if not the same as the flu, and the flu marches unchecked across our country every year.
The flu does not kill healthy adults, ebola does.
The combination of long, and infectious incubation time , and horrific mortality rate make this the perfect disease to cause a collapse of our medical system, followed by an economic collapse that would make the great depression look like a picnic.
Ebola has simmered in Africa for decades, but now it is out. West Africans are isolated and very few travel, they certainly don’t travel to Cancun, so your little paradise was safe. Now air travel is spreading it around the globe. Everything needed for a worldwide disaster is in place. Being PC about it will only help it along,
Whistling by the graveyard may be of jelp to you, gut it won’t stop ebola, even in old mexico.