[ClearCase_guy]

Yes. People say we have the best health care, so people come here for treatment. True enough. But when American start panicking, the system will overload. And our healthcare may be good, but it is also damn expensive. Thsi is going run into very serious money in no time at all, even if the disease doesn't spread far.

And if it does spread far? Non-ebola patients will suffer.
Dialysis? Chemotherapy? Trauma? Can't help you the way we used too -- we're totally overloaded. And outside of the medical world -- if people panic, they won't go to work. Power generation, food distribution, mass transit -- a lot of stuff could shut down even in the early stages of a bad situation.

The media has been training Americans to panic for years -- we've become quite good at being irrational.

[GeronL]

We won’t need any panic for the system to overload. A major city hospital was shut down because of 1 case. 100 cases could shut down 100 hospitals I guess.