The difference in ebola and the diseases you mention is ebola infects both the healthy and those with compromised immune systems.
The transmission mechanism is very similar, if not the same as the flu, and the flu marches unchecked across our country every year.
The flu does not kill healthy adults, ebola does.
The combination of long, and infectious incubation time , and horrific mortality rate make this the perfect disease to cause a collapse of our medical system, followed by an economic collapse that would make the great depression look like a picnic.
Ebola has simmered in Africa for decades, but now it is out. West Africans are isolated and very few travel, they certainly don’t travel to Cancun, so your little paradise was safe. Now air travel is spreading it around the globe. Everything needed for a worldwide disaster is in place. Being PC about it will only help it along,
Whistling by the graveyard may be of jelp to you, gut it won’t stop ebola, even in old mexico.
“The transmission mechanism is very similar, if not the same as the flu ...”
NO....IT’S NOT.
It is transmitted, Primarily, the same way as AIDS and MRSA:
You contract these diseases primarily through contact of bodily fluids of another person who is infected.
MRSA kills plenty of people each year: 20,000 and that’s just in the USA.
Ebola doesn’t come close to that worldwide.
MRSA attacks the healthy as well as the sick.
It took a friend 3 rounds of antibiotics and six months to rid herself of MRSA but, not before it ate the ball of her femure first.
She got a full hip replacement out of that.
Those of us who cared for her wore gloves, mask and robes whenever we changed her port-a-pottie, washed the dishes she used and for various other things where her fluids might be transfered.
Even when changing/handling her PIC line and washing her sheets.
Nasty stuff and we went through gallons of bleach and alcohol, which were used liberally.
The only way she could have transfered MRSA would be to sneeze directly in my face and some droplets getting in my nose, mouth or eyes.
Other than that it is highly unlikely that MRSA would have been transmitted airborne to the point you can’t even define a “probability” for it happening.
If you want to believe Ebola can be spread like the flu, have at it.
It can’t and 99% of the “suspected” cases in the news, at various places around the country have been benign.
It ain’t happening.
I had friends go to an extraordinary expensive spa about the time H1N1 was going to become a pandemic.
There were some very learned doctors giving seminars on it and one even claimed H1N1 killed his father.
Now, how are we to determine if what that chump was saying is true?
Dunno but, my B.S. meter went off when I learned he was selling health potions and programs at the end of it and none of it was some life saving program you couldn’t get at GNC.
The kicker was having dinner with him and learning his dad was hospitalized with pneumonia, originally and he was 93.
that stiey was bunk and the world didn’t suddenly start dropping dead.
same deal with AIDS. Oh we were all going to die from that
how could we prevent it?
Seemed everyone knew it could be spread by sex, blood body fluids and what made it so deadly was that it could be spread like the Flu! !!
Or, at least that’s what the homosexual community wanted you to believe, so you would fund a cure for their death style, erh, disease and deliver a cure, so they could keep doing the nasty with each other.
hmmmmm....we ain’t dying in great numbers yet and we were assured the world was ending ...soon...30 years ago.
so yeah, I’ll whistle past the graveyard and stay away from those who have postules, boils or are outright sick.
the numbers are so low that shouldn’t be too difficult.