He's got a point. Where's the hysteria over traffic deaths?
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Michael Fumento is a lawyer and journalist who specializes in mass hysteria. He lives in Colombia.
From one count I saw, there has been a bit more than 2000 deaths. Since 1976. Perhaps it is getting much worse. I know this has apparently been the worst year. Could be a fluke, could be the disease has changed. I do not know.
You know its time to start panicking when all the right-thinking people start spilling a lot of ink saying, “There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
The odds that something like this may hit here may be small, but it is NOT zero. I don’t think that there should be hysteria about Ebola, but I do think there should be concern.
Another knuckleheaded “expert”. A “lawyer” too.
How many people in America had SARS? We know at least 2 persons on the continent have ebola and they took precautions but still caught it.
No rumor is true until the government issues a denial...
He's got a point. Where's the hysteria over traffic deaths?
Mike, I don’t discount that Ebola may not be that big a concern. I still think that when we’re talking about a disease that makes you bleed to death, maintaining a healthy fear of it is a good idea.
Hey, heck yeah. Let’s send the whole lot of Washington Post reporters, editors, and and columnist to west Africa. I won’t worry at all about ‘em.
My 2 cents:
Given our free-for-all border situation, I believe Ebola is a concern. But I won’t lose sleep over it. I view the media hysteronics as Bronco Bama’s directed sideshow from the flood of Mexican/Central American illegals — when my kids go back to school in three weeks, I’ll be counting the number of Juan’s and Maria’s. G-Dammit, if I need to prove my kids have had immunizations, they’d better not to sitting next to a taxpayer-funded tuberculosis incubator.
And there are only 12 million illegals in the U.S.
We know this because we've been told this for 28 years now.
Of possible interest.
Ebola itself is still a small worry this week for any given person. What is worrying is the hubris of folks bringing it over here when they could not contain the africanized honey bee, kudzu, the japanese beetle, etc.
The problem isn't the low risk of an epidemic, the problem is that the cost of an Ebola epidemic is so huge. Risk % * cost = expected result. The expected result of an Ebola epidemic is very bad.
Read Taleb's 'The Black Swan' for a presentation on how small risks with huge costs (or sometimes huge rewards) are to be treated more seriously than we currently do.