20-20 hindsight, I knew it from the beginning, why didn’t you and the others?
20-20 hindsight is dishonest to say, my posts and my links show that we knew all this stuff when you guys were pushing the hysterics and the fantasies, that is why I could call Ben Carson and Rand Paul idiots when they made their statements.
Here you are still trying to argue like this was a year ago, when do you just admit that the hysterics were clueless and wrong?
Maybe because we were looking at what was in front of us not out the other end.
Clueless? Projections of the disease's progress in Africa were pretty much spot-on until new treatment methods and additional assistance were forthcoming, so I would not say that was "Clueless".
Most predictions of possible disaster here were based on the disease getting in the wild on these shores. That, generally, did not happen. It's like saying that because the person standing in the puddle of gasoline didn't strike a match, there's no danger of fire, and then saying "I told you so".
That the fundamental conditions which those projections were based on did not come to pass did not mean there was no danger if they had. It just means the conditions were not right. So you bet on the best-case scenario. Bravo, kudos, don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back. My purpose in all this wasn't to predict so much as to chronicle, and be aware of what the worst case might bring. (Hint: we already knew if no one got sick there wouldn't be a problem.)
There was a lot of interest in preventing that worst case, and the gross missteps the administration was making in doing so did little to gain the confidence of anyone paying attention. Ebola could have very easily been much more of a problem than it was. Thankfully, it wasn't.
Actually we're glad not to be burying people wholesale, too (well, at least most of them).