The statistics of Ebola in Africa (8,000 infected to date) are pretty conclusive. A virus of common cold infects nearly everyone in a large city. Ebola hasn't done that - neither in Africa, nor in Europe, nor in the USA. These numbers are not produced by the CDC; and those are the worst case (in a city) due to poor awareness, widespread superstition, and not so great infrastructure.
Still Ebola is not winding down yet. So it is dangerous and contagious. However every one infected person infects not 100 people, like common cold can easily do, and not even 10 people - but on average somewhere between 0 and 2, depending on personal protection that is used. This affects the rate of spreading. The nurses got infected because they worked with Mr. Duncan up to the moment of his death, which is the most dangerous. Nobody else seems to be infected - neither the power washer crew, nor the Sheriff's deputy, nor the family of Mr. Duncan (as far as we know.) There are pretty good chances to keep this under control.
So you have decided to take disease guaranteed by our Government not to be here and compare it to the common cold.
We have one dead and two nurses stricken by this “cold”.
The death rate is 50-90% depending on whatever.
We have the CDC wanting everyone on a flight to report themselves.
Over 8,000 are dead since June.
What?
You must continue to convince us proles that there is no danger from a disease that we were assured would never get into the country, and if it did would never spread, and if it did spread that no one would die.
You know that if this does slip the leash, like it did in Liberia, conservative survivors are going to hunt down and hang every last Lib, as they share the guilt for genocide...
Without regard for age, gender, race, religion or national origin.
I don’t believe conceptually your example is accurate. People with colds go to work and do what ever they would normally do for 7-10 days spreading colds. If ebola patients were able to walk around freely it would spread just as fast. For the most part they are to sick to move around and contact fewer people. In the case of Patrick Sawyer he seems to have infected virtually everyone he made contact that were not wearing PPE.
Really???? Go check out how many the Nigerian infected. Then compare that infection rate to the Bubonic Plague, Black death, etc. infection rate. It is shocking.
There are pretty good chances to keep this under control.
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I agree.....**if***.....standard the practices,( known for more than 100 years) for containing highly contagious diseases controls are used.
Do I trust those in government to use these highly effective practices? No, I don’t. So far, their response has been beyond believable except it is happen right before our eyes.
“Nobody else seems to be infected - neither the power washer crew, nor the Sheriff’s deputy, nor the family of Mr. Duncan (as far as we know.) “
No one on the multiple flights he took to get here were affected as well it appears; fortunately.
Lets hope that holds up.