Nothing to see here?
Posted on 10/30/2014 5:49:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
CHICAGO (CBS) — With all of the coverage surrounding the potential spread of Ebola in the United States, it might be time to step back and consider your odds of actually dying from the virus.
A graphic in on the Washington Post website, uses 2010 population figures to calculate your odds of dying from Ebola in the next year: 1 in 309,629,415.
The odds of winning the Powerball Jackpot–currently $159 million–about 1 in 175,000,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
Yeah, right. The lottery isn’t contagious, via air or touch. They aren’t even worth comparing.
The lottery is voluntary.
I’m so fortunate that I have the wise liberal elites at CBS news to ease my foolish fears. After all, I’m just an idiot conservative.
It’s a miracle I can even get myself dressed - in fact I probably couldn’t even manage that without having “CBS This Morning” playing on my television.
Nothing to see here?
Well I guess we can cut off foreign aid packages to west Africa since they have so many lottery winners.
So far.
With Ebola, you're in the game whether or not you want to play.
Yea, and your odds increase at a parabolic rate in an outbreak, A-hole See B S news Chicago,; While the Lottery is a flat line.
This used to be considered commen sense.
The level of stupid we have to put up with is astonishing
I hope my odds of dying from Ebola aren’t similar to my odds of winning the Nigerian National Lottery - I just got the third email this month informing me that I hold a winning ticket!
Yes but the lottery won’t kill you.
The lottery isn’t contagious, is voluntary and WON’T FREAKIN’ KILL YOU!
I don’t play the lottery either.
Come back in late January and se how your statement lines up.
What is it the GPS keeps saying when lost.....
Recalculating,...Recalculating....
You can’t win if you don’t play.
A lily pond has one lilypad in it. Each lilypad in the pond reproduces itself once per day. It takes 29 days to fill half of the lily pond. How long does it take to fill the whole lily pond?
Answer: 30 days
Now replace lily pond with “population of the world” and replace lilypad with “Ebola infected person.”
The timings may not be as fast, but in the end, the result is the same. It WILL overwhelm the population.
Your odds of being infected with and dying from Ebola will continue to climb exponentially.
You will keep telling yourself that the odds of your catching it are small.
Then, one day, seemingly overnight, you will be surrounded by it.
Your only hope will be to isolate yourself from it - a reverse quarantine.
You need to be prepared to wait it out as it burns itself out.
Exactly one year ago the odds of someone in the Hot Zone winning a lottery also was higher than catching Ebola.
Then we had Patient Zero die in Guinea in December 2013. Now, not so much.
Can you buy a power ball ticket at DFW? That could be a two-fer.
I had assumed being a journalist for a national news outlet generally required an IQ of at least 70 or so. This guy just invalidated my assumption.
Plus the 0bola odds change daily.
I know some secret techniques that will greatly increase my chances of winning the Ebola Sweepstakes. What I haven’t discovered are techniques that will help me win the Lottery. Working on it.
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