The recent Science publication found fewer than 400 mutations, and more than half of them were conservative, meaning that they changed the genetic sequence without changing the protein sequence. This is out of a genome that is around 19,000 bases. So it really has not changed very much at all.
The Reston strain has been documented to cause asymptomatic disease in humans--15 people were demonstrated to have seropositivity, evidence of past infection. It is still treated as a BSL-4 agent, since there is still the possibility that it causes disease in humans as severe as other strains of Ebola do.
I am sure that is true(you are very knowledgable) but we don’t know zip about what it’s doing today, or will do tommorrow with 100% certainty.
I think a lot of people would just like to know that someone is preparing for the worst, and not just dismissing it out of hand, or just hoping for the best.
Continually reassuring people that there’s nothing to worry about, just makes them more concerned and afraid. That has been my experience. You may have a totally different perspective, and that’s fine too.