Hey! It's Ebola!

[emrinalexander]

The sight of first world citizens agonizing over how they can "catch" Ebola is one I find sad, funny and frankly another indictment of the American educational system, at least when it comes to teaching science. I am also shaking my head because when Ebola "only" affected thousands of nameless and faceless people in Africa, when it was those "other

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[tx_cronopio]

We need a like button.

[tehomet]

My thoughts exactly.

[forcryinoutloud]

So much THIS!

I also find it sad that we have how many cases every.single.year of people dying from things like the freaking flu (in the US alone - 30,000-49,000 over a 30 year period, according to the CDDC, which would make it approximately 1000-1600 a year, EVERY year, with two hundred thousand hospitalized - every year), but because Ebola is exotic, it's got everyone in a freaking tizzy after what, three people in the US getting it - and each and every one of them were working around someone with full blow Ebola

[lexin]

Word. Absolutely.

[nesmith]

Yesterday I had to sit and listen to some of my coworkers freaking out about Ebola and it was all I could do not to scream at them. I've never heard such completely ignorant paranoia in my life.

[mrshamill]

You know I agree, excepting one part -- I'm expecting it to get bad in inner-city hospitals, you know, the ones that have NO FUNDING and/or NO TRAINING... If an "outbreak" happens (and I think it's just a matter of time), the only ones going to be affected will be the poor, homeless, indigent people that no one around here likes to think about.

GRAR.

(BTW, Seperis (on DW) is from Texas, and her take on it was thusly: I just want to say, as a Texan, we already had Rick Perry. Ebola is just salt in the wound here.