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I believe the panic and stupidity by the masses is because of how Ebola kills people. Bleeding out, projectile vomit, high fever, etc. descriptions of Duncan and other pictures/videos of end stage Ebola victims are pretty gruesome. And the fact that according to the MSDS, Ebola is a BSL level4 infectious virus. Doesn’t say much for the folks who said it’s hard to be infected by this. I’ve not heard of the bird flu, flu, swine flu killing folks the same way. Just an observation. I’m not panicking just aware.

You have a disease that is killing roughly 70% of people infected, that is doubling every 2-4 weeks (despite being in a population that is among the most immobile on earth), and has sustained that level of growth for many months, now. That alone is enough to make rational people concerned. Whether it is gruesome or not is irrelevant. These numbers are potentially cataclysmic.

Maybe we are in a substantially better position, and it won't grow at the same rate outside of W. Africa. Or maybe it will, and maybe that 70% doesn't come down that much. Nobody really knows (despite professed confidence to the contrary). Rational people would be quite concerned if a disease with a CFR of 3%, with this steady rate of growth, were to appear. Numbers like we are seeing with Ebola are almost unfathomable.