Perhaps we'll lose the continent.
From Richard Fernandez:
“...we have no idea what is happening in Sierra Leone or Guinea, which is one of the most corrupt countries on earth. Officials claim only about 1,000 people have died from Ebola in West Africa so far, ‘not many’ in such a vast region. But this completely underrates the real danger. The relevant population against which such casualties must be measured are the medical personnel. They are being wiped out. Africa has a very limited store of scientific, medical and technical human capital and once these irreplaceables are killed or intimidated then the man issuing the medical exit visas will be an illiterate with a rubber stamp.”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/08/viral/#more-38550
I call dibs on Victoria Falls. Or Botswana. Whichever.
Things are much much worse then are being reported. I’ve read that 30,000 are infected in West Africa. The locals are no longer seeking treatment in hospitals as they have correctly decided that going to a hospital is a certain death sentence. Whole villages in the “bush” are being wiped out, bodies are piling up in the streets in urban centers. For sure this is going to Europe I just hope our two oceans protect us in North America.
If so, it will not stop there. There will always be those who escape, and some will be infected.