Ebola has a 60% death rate and you are comparing the severity of Ebola to the common flu? The way you are pooh poohing this I have to ask, are you the Dr. from Fox News; Bernie Seigel? Are you the head of the CDC Dr. Thomas Frieden? The same cavalier, “it can never happen to the US.” to “it will be contained easily as we have superior medical facilities than the third world.” excuses reek of arrogance and a false sense of delusion. This is worse than panic as this misleads the public into thinking they are safe when Ebola can be transmitted rather easily if 2 Dr.s contracted it even when wearing supposedly sufficient protective gear.
“it can never happen to the US”
What can never happen? What is it? My mother once said, that “it” is the biggest word in the dictionary. looks to me like the entire country is going to go into a “it” frenzy, with the exception of a few cavalier people...
I think that is the question that is being turned into a strawman.
While anyone in West Africa can get ebloa, be asymptomatic, and get on a airplane and fly to the US, while still asymptomatic, few people could actually do that for a variety of reasons. Thus the idea that the US will be flooded somehow with ebola patients escaping Africa was ludicrous. That was the first “it”.
All I did was try to knock that strawman down, only to have it replaced with another, in that entire airplanes would be infected by one person, so I tried to nock that strawman down only to have it replaced again by another, and another and another.
I’m not being cavalier. I live in the real world..”It” is certainly possible for someone to get here asymptomatic and then present with ebola, but now that has occurred and new strawmen are arising from the ash of the old and the “we are all gonna die” refrain is one of them.
Ebola is no more easy to contract then the flu. In fact it’s much more difficult. I use the flu comparison because they are both viruses. They both kill. But the flu is much worse in terms of ability to infect vast numbers of people and cause global damage.
In the US, we have been handling outbreaks of both bacteriological and viral caused illnesses on small, medium and large scales for my entire life. I recall a strep outbreak back in the 50s where state and federal medical authorities intervened. The bug presented as Strep-throat, and was in the schools system. They ID’d all of the kids who had contracted it, treated them in the schools, and eradicated the outbreak. Even followed up on the infected for a number of months. This would be no different if the disease was ebola.
That is just a minor example, but I use it to illustrate the difference between the western governments, and the conditions in West Africa and I use a dated example from the mid 1950s America.
It’s just a realistic assessment of the issue, and not some cavalier pooh-phooing..
I think you have a better chance of getting struck by a meteorite, then catching ebola in the US, unless of course you work in a field that puts you in direct contact with potentially infected persons coming back from funerals in Liberia..
If that is the case, then the chances are only a little higher than the meteorite strike..
Now that is getting a bit cavalier...but I admit “it”, in advance..