It is interesting to read foreign news and see how this is reported in other countries.
Germany is border line freaking out over it.
The US could have zero cases, or 5,000, you would never know as the info is all but secret, and HIPPA is being used to compartmentalize and hide data. We haven’t even had any flu reports yet this year, several years ago we were all gonna die if we didn’t get our flu shots.
Every person in the US even placed under observation for Ebola has been reported to death. Any confirmed case would result in 20 to 50 or more people being quarantined. How exactly would they go about keeping that secret?
I’m perfectly willing to concede the possibility that CDC and other agencies might play games with statistics, but it is just not possible to keep any actual cases out of local news, which would then spread into the national media.
I’m saddened by conservatives getting into unjustified conspiracy theory territory.
A good friend of mine is convinced that blacks are unjustly imprisoned at much higher rates than whites, that all races commit crimes at similar rates, but blacks are prosecuted when whites are not.
I point to the FBI stats, and his response is that they’re all part of the white supremacist conspiracy.
I suggest it is a problem when people have a theory: black crime is inflated or Ebola in US is being hidden, for example. When evidence against that theory is brought forward, the response is not to provide evidence showing that the theory is actually right, but simply to claim that any evidence to the contrary is part of the conspiracy.
I suppose that could be the case, but IMO a reasonable person would want to see evidence that it was, not just assume that it was in order to maintain belief in the theory.