The cluelessness of idiots focusing on things that don't matter... highlights the lack of perspective...
"Those things are real and happening every day"...
And they each pose ZERO risk of killing half the population on the planet...
There is CURRENTLY a close to about zero chance of anyone in the U.S. contracting Ebola, this week. The risk isn't that you're going to catch Ebola and die this week. The scope of the problem, the nature of the risk, isn't made less because it hasn't happened to you yet. Thus far, in Africa, only a very small percentage of the population in infected areas have contracted it... which is good... because the more it spreads in Africa, the more it will prove unable to be contained by the existing controls.
Here's what others are doing:
Travel bans issued in reaction to Ebola
news.yahoo.com
The point that makes... is that reasonable precautions will ensure there ISN'T a risk. The risk that exists, now, is real.... but it is a risk that is being caused by a government that is, purposefully or not, ensuring the risks will be realized. If you ban travel... and enforce that effectively... the risk is controlled. If you impose a quarantine... and enforce that effectively... the risk is controlled. None of this is rocket science, rather than the routine stuff you do in containing any contagion. So, why are western governments NOT doing what is obviously required, and simply sensible, to control the risk... while deliberately exposing their countries to the risk ?
Whatever risks do exist from Malaria, Dengue Fever, Lyme disease, or drowning in a bucket... none of them CAN pose any larger risks than now exist routinely. All of those other risks that exist are EASILY AVOIDED... and, if you do have the misfortune of catching Malaria on your vacation to some tropical hell hole... there is roughly ZERO risk of you dying from it... as those diseases are all easily treatable... with very low mortality for anyone who has access to a reasonable quality of medical care.
They are not the risk that the NEW STRAIN of Ebola is...
"There has been (sic) 14 Ebola outbreaks since 1976"...
And, none of those prior instances with limited outbreaks have ever posed anything like the risk that the current outbreak poses. Yours is like saying there have been 14 meteors that hit the planet this year, and none of those did any damage... so, there's no need to worry about that 5 mile wide chunk of rock bearing down on us ? The prior history... is irrelevant... when what's happening now isn't the same as what happened in the past. Those prior instances... DIDN'T SPREAD... while the current outbreak IS SPREADING. You should note that that is the key difference matters. The disease that doesn't spread... isn't a risk. The one that does... is. |
