Peak Ebola? Even Goldman Is Now Warning About The Ebola Fear Factor

News about the spread of the Ebola virus has been an increasing focus for market participants in recent days. Despite rising media coverage, Ebola seems to have had little discernible effect on consumer sentiment to date. However, as Goldman Sachs notes, the "fear factor" associated with Ebola appears more significant than in past instances of pandemic concern. While expert opinion sees the likelihood of a significant outbreak of Ebola in the US as very low, it is likely any negative macroeconomic consequences are most likely to be transmitted through fear or risk-aversion channels.

Not this time. Ebola is a clear and present threat to national security.

Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.

I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.

Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.

Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?

Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.

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While expert opinion sees the likelihood of a significant outbreak of Ebola in the US as very low, it is likely any negative macroeconomic consequences are most likely to be transmitted through fear or risk-aversion channels.

Experts supposedly advised Obama that ebola would never reach the US! Experts also supposedly advised Obama that, if it did arrive here, hospitals were prepared to isolate it to prevent further spread. Both of these expert opinions were WRONG! And we have spent millions and millions of dollars because one guy finds it politically incorrect to ban travel from nations where the epidemic exists!!!!!! Many have been exposed to the virus because of his politics. If any further deaths occur in the US he should not simply be impeached, he should be tried in a court of law for murder...

The will be — and probably already are — far more people in the U.S. getting sick from watching endless and breathless "Deadly Ebola Crisis" coverage than there will ever be actual ebola patients, much less dying from it.

So far, the most tangible result of the "ebola scare" has been that the U.S. has added one more "czar" to her list of other unelected "czars."

This manufactured "crisis" has at least 3000 of our troops (now affectionally known as Obama's "boots on the ground") "fighting" ebola outbreak in Liberia / West Africa, while ISIS and other al-Qaeda offshoots are taking over entire countries and their natural resources, such as oil, as well as their banks, military equipment and "formerly non-existent" WMDs in the Middle East where there is no "war" (just unnamed military kinetic action) and therefore no "boots on the ground" are present because they supposedly aren't needed to win a non-war.

Why are people so easily distracted from critically important things and events that will have a long-term, lasting consequences, and detour into easily resolved relatively inconsequential ones?

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