[Smokin' Joe]

The hysteria even infected the feds, and they were accused of not being hysterical enough, by some.

It is a question of how that concern was applied. Keeping the disease in Africa made perfect sense.

For some of us, it made no sense to send troops and aid there to combat a disease which crossed our borders (and was even imported) with only the sound of either crickets or hollow assurances all was in control. A mere 100 cases would have overwhelmed the BSL-4 bed space in the US by a factor of 4+.

In the meantime, we import other diseases with a devil-may-care immigration policy and distribute them throughout the US.

[ansel12]

The disease wasn’t imported, and it never caused us any problems here, and no soldiers got sick, and while this has been the worst outbreak of the dozens of outbreaks over the last 40 years, nothing much came of it and nothing of note in the United States or outside of Africa.

The screaming panic scaremongers were incredibly wrong about everything.

If you want a laugh, go back to the early threads and watch the raving loons screaming at everyone who was rational.

Seriously, go look at those early threads and read the madness and the hysteria, and how nasty about it they were.