People who are posting that they are not afraid or worried, it’s been nice knowing you. I am stocking up on much basic goods. I have neighbors building around their property like a fortress. Really. People who live in the wilderness far off from the cities is where I’d prefer to be away from all of the risks.
“People who live in the wilderness far off from the cities is where I’d prefer to be away from all of the risks.”
My mother, now 97, lived in tiny, isolated Medina, Ohio. She said her father and the local sheriff went to the edge of town and put up a sign that the flu had already reached Medina and urging people fleeing the city to keep going. They thought they were lying in an effort to protect themselves and their neighbors. But the flu had already hit at a boarding house that had rented rooms to city dwellers and they just didn’t know it yet. Mom, who was born at the end of the outbreak, knew lots of people who lost family to the flu.
Having said that, I don’t think Ebola is spread by air, which makes it less dangerous than the flu. Theoretically, you get it by directly touching the body fluids of infected people. (Although, sneeze droplets hang for a long, long time. The closed ventilation system of a plane could be a 100% effective vector on a four hour flight with an infected person.)