A bit ridiculous to say anyone with a concern should shut up.
It’s a highly lethal disease that is at current uncontrolled. I’m not peeing my pants in fear but I am stay abreast of containment efforts in the hopes it doesn’t spread further.
Why is the media being so... blasé about this?
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Ya got to love the American media...
Masters of manipulation, devils of deceit...
Some people will fight for their normalcy bias...
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/Scarlet/
The Scarlet Plague
by Jack London, as published in London Magazine, 28(June 1912): 513-40.
[Thanks to David Reed for providing this eText and John H. Doe for markup]
Guess Jack London is out of style these days.
Use of rude language like this is typical of authorities becoming auhoritarian and arrogant.
ZEBOV (Zaire Ebola virus) has taken down a rather noticeable number of doctors and other medical employees.
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates (Airborn)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3188965/posts
When a case comes here, people will blame those who said “It can happen!”
We mock the African’s for their backwardness, yet we do the same things.
What caused you to excerpt your own blog?
They do not want to interfere with Obama’s utopia. Imagine this same Ebola scenario happening under a Republican administration.
I got to say, it is a bad time for me to begin reading Dan Brown’s Inferno.
I’m with the chart. But people won’t listen. There’s a large group of people who desperately want to worry about EVERYTHING. If they can’t find something to be freaked out about they’ll make one. It’s the same crowd that insisted Swine Flu2 was gonna get us, and SARS, and Bird Flu, and West Nile, and insists every flu season is the worst one ever. They’re sad really. Yeah, Ebola is a pretty scary bug, but it’s scary enough to burn itself out and even though this outbreak is the worst one ever it still hasn’t killed as many people as the regular flu does every year.
So, yeah, STFU is actually pretty sound advice... that none of the people who need it will take.