It’s troubling that the stock market has reacted to this Ebola case and that multiple airlines’ share prices fell more than 3%. It doesn’t help my confidence a whole lot.
Medical personnel seem to be consistent in saying that Ebola is not as much of a threat in the U.S. as it is in Africa, but that doesn’t help my confidence a whole lot either.
The jury is still out on this one. We won’t know who is correct for another 21 days or so. If we hear nothing about potential cases after 7 to 10 days, the medical community has contained it. If we begin hearing in 7-10 days that individuals are presenting symptoms and being tested, fear will begin to set in with the general public.
It is interesting how doctors like Dr. Segal (sp?) on Fox say that for every 1 patient in Africa who has Ebola, only two will contract it. As per Drudge, this one patient who is symptomatic, had contact with 18 people. I guess only 2 of the 18 will contract the virus. Luckily we don’t wash the bodies of the victims. So that will help and keep the numbers down? : (
OK, so this is one guy. But as long as we keep letting in people from the affected countries there is going to be another, and another, and another. There’s going to be someone who doesn’t visit their family, who doesn’t go to the hospital, some schmuck who goes around to strip bars or something like that and ends up bleeding out in an alley.
Try tracing the contacts from someone like that.
There is no reasonable reason that we are still permitting people from these countries to come here.