I know exactly what the experts who study viruses like Ebola do.
I really do not understand the fixation with airborne, and why it won’t go away despite every expert in the world saying it isn’t airborne.
Most airborne viruses are not very pathogenic and have low death rates. They cause more deaths overall because they infect so many people, but the chance that a specific person will die is pretty low.
To put that into context, the CDC estimates that 5-20% of the US population gets influenza every year. Between 3000 and 49,000 die from it, with the average about 16,000. That’s less than a 0.33% fatality rate, calculated using the numbers that give the highest possible CFR.
Are those Bammy’s “experts”?
Puhleeze!
Just go away! Your blatant indoctrination always shows up on theses threads.
We cannot stop Air Travel because it will “disinscentive” resume enhancers to go to Africa? Like we did not handle the tsunami in Thailand without “Commercial flights?’
Go Away you.
Call me slightly skeptical, but just because experts have said it won't doesn't mean that it hasn't or won't. I wouldn't consider it a fixation, it is rather a healthy skepticism. I would prefer to err on the side of caution.
All of the experts from the CDC who have given us information over the airways have all said that Ebola can't do this or that only to backtrack at some point, meanwhile two nurses get infected while taking care of a man who dies of it. None of them know how they got infected. If I were the nursing director, my nurses would act as if it could be airborne.
The only thing the experts have done is encourage Obama to trot out a worthless czar, because who really wants to be held responsible for it all?