If you’re all stocked up and ready for the season, then by all means make preparations for medical contingencies. I’m just saying that we shouldn’t be shitting ourselves in fear that this disease is going to rampage its way across the country. The only cases here have been brought here by our government, and those people are still alive. I think that’s a testament to American medicine.
If ebola’s gonna come here, it’s gonna come. I’m not going to go through my day fearful of every sneeze, cough, and bead of sweat I come across. Live life. If we have to live life under fear, let it be legitimate. This, so far, is just a lot of media fearmongering.
As long as the number of cases of this disease are increasing, health care systems in the region are overwhelmed, and travel in and out are not restricted, I expect a lot of people to be concerned.
Concern is not equivalent to “go through my day fearful of every sneeze, cough, and bead of sweat.”
It’s just a concern in a long list of concerns that people are experiencing, due to the interesting times in which we live. It’s not at the top of my list for probabilities, either, buy we all have varying degrees of concern.