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Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:20 pm
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Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:21 pm to Asgard Device
Ok
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:22 pm to Asgard Device
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:22 pm to Asgard Device
So your saying when 2500 people die of ebola we should start worrying?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:24 pm to Asgard Device
Elections coming look elsewhere talking points all is well Bush fault etc etc.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:25 pm to Asgard Device
Which is more people than will be killed by handguns.
Guess which one the nominee for Surgeon General wants to ban?
Guess which one the nominee for Surgeon General wants to ban?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:25 pm to La Place Mike
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So your saying when 2500 people die of ebola we should start worrying?
No, I'm giving al little perspective to show how much emotions play a role in our reactions/outrage to certain threats.
I'm not diminishing ebola or any deaths that occur from it. I'm showing how desensitized we are to automobile accidents because it's "normal" to us. Ebola on the other hand is not "normal."
It's food for thought, if you're into that sort of thing.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:25 pm to papasmurf1269
I have a funny feeling that Obama would be more pleased to halt traffic than these flights out of Africa. Obama's ideology is what drives him the most and nothing else. Dangerous thing, a very dangerous thing to give power too.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:26 pm to Asgard Device
I didn't know car wrecks were an epidemic.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:27 pm to Asgard Device
Didn't see this food for thought argument during Bush's blood for oil war?
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:28 pm to goatmilker
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Bush
What's Bush got to do with any of this? Does he presently dictate cultural norms?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:29 pm to austingator
quote:Good thing I got my Car Wreck shot.
I didn't know car wrecks were an epidemic.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:36 pm to SquirrelyBama
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Obama would be more pleased to halt traffic than these flights out of Africa.
Are you for, or against halting traffic to save lives?
Which is it?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:41 pm to Asgard Device
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No, I'm giving al little perspective to show how much emotions play a role in our reactions/outrage to certain threats.
People in the US dying by some sort of vehicular accident has been going on for almost a century. People in the US dying from this virulent strain of Ebola, just a couple of weeks.
Car accidents aren't contagious.
Those are some important differences.
We know the 2nd nurse took a flight to meet up with friends, then took a flight back. Depending on when\if she became contagious we are looking at a potential number of others similarly infected right now that runs from 0 to around a (conservative) few dozen (the people she came into direct contact with, those sitting near her, whoever sat in her airplane seat on the next leg of the journey, someone taking any money from her, etc).
What will tell the tale is how many new cases related to her crop up over the next 2-3 weeks.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:41 pm to Asgard Device
By the time there is proof of a real problem with an infectious agent, it is already too late to do much about it.
I think this episode proves we aren't remotely prepared for a highly infectious disease and nobody in the government (either party) will be willing to make the call at the right time to shut things down.
And I am not remotely worried about Ebola. Just worried about our poor response from top to bottom by both parties.
I think this episode proves we aren't remotely prepared for a highly infectious disease and nobody in the government (either party) will be willing to make the call at the right time to shut things down.
And I am not remotely worried about Ebola. Just worried about our poor response from top to bottom by both parties.
This post was edited on 10/16/14 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:46 pm to Asgard Device
No one's ever been laid in the back of an Ebola.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:47 pm to Asgard Device
While I agree the worry seems to be over the top, this OP is a bit ridiculous.
2 million people die from Tuberculosis each year and no one seems to give a shite about TB either.
However, the Ebola virus has a 50-70% mortality rate, so there are legitimate reasons to take it seriously.
Last I checked, that mortality rate doesn't hold true for most other viruses, much less driving a car. There is an appropriate level of worry that is somewhere between the OP and Fox News/CNN.
2 million people die from Tuberculosis each year and no one seems to give a shite about TB either.
However, the Ebola virus has a 50-70% mortality rate, so there are legitimate reasons to take it seriously.
Last I checked, that mortality rate doesn't hold true for most other viruses, much less driving a car. There is an appropriate level of worry that is somewhere between the OP and Fox News/CNN.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:59 pm to Asgard Device
Irrelevant comparison
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:59 pm to SquirrelyBama
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I have a funny feeling that Obama would be more pleased to halt traffic than these flights out of Africa. Obama's ideology is what drives him the most and nothing else. Dangerous thing, a very dangerous thing to give power too.
You know how I know you're not very bright?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:00 pm to Asgard Device
quote:Jon Stewart wanna be?
2500+ Americans will die in automobile accidents in November.
Yet, people are exponentially more outraged and worried about Ebola.
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Absolutely.
... as it would have been were it to ridicule DC area residents' concern during the Malvo-Muhammed DC Beltway Sniper Attacks
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