You packed alot in here, so I am going to break it up a bit to address it properly...
I'm not in denial, I'm following this situation very carefully. First of all - the odds that Ebola will suddenly turn airborne are miniscule, according to all serious scientists.
This is a disturbing opening, and one that may be your opinion but not one that anyone looking for rational discussion of the situation would consider as well meaning debate...First, You personally can't speak to the odds, you are not a trained physician, or virologist as far as I know. Second, your use speaking to "all serious scientists" is dismissive blather that makes one roll their eyes...IOW, if a scientist doesn't say what you believe you dismiss them as un-serious...Shame on you.
Look, has HIV ever turned airborne? What about hepatitis B? What about hepatitis C? Viruses that are only transmitted by bodily fluids tend to remain so.
Every viral disease is different, and acts differently. It is crazy to think that because HIV isn't airborne, that another can't become airborne. That is a silly comparison.
Therefore, all the airborne talk is nothing other than hysteria and fear-mongering. Ebola is NOT airborne.
Maybe some of it yeah....I for one am not at this point overly concerned that the cases we see in America will become airborne, or out of control, but that doesn't mean that it never could, or that at some point this could get away from officials, and part of the concern today is that we are not being told the truth.
Ebola DOES NOT propagate easily in a developed country that has a decent health system and can isolate contacts.
Good. But I doubt that the disease differentiates between 1st world, and 3rd world...But I am glad you brought up contacts. This is what I am talking about here...People like this NY Doc. comes back in, and goes for a run, goes to work out, goes bowling, and takes an Ubercar around...Now they say they are contacting 4 people, but who the hell knows? It is irresponsible not to have him have had to identify, and be stopped BEFORE he had the chance to act in the irresponsible manner he did.
Look, not even the family of Mr. Duncan contracted Ebola from him, much less the general public that had no contact with him. Only two nurses of the 170 some people in the hospital who got in contact with him and treated him directly, contracted the disease, apparently through not following proper protocol.
Thank God...I believe that was pure luck.
Learning from this mistake, the protocol has been tightened up.
So they say. We shall see.
I won't be surprised if no health care worker contracts it from the NY doctor, now that the protocol is tight. Emory Hospital, Nebraska, and the NIH hospital in Maryland, all successfully treated Ebola patients and no health care worker got sick there (because they were following proper protocol, unlike a small community hospital in Dallas).
I hope you're right...The problem is that when you're wrong, the people you were wrong about will die.
Were there mistakes made? Yes, this disease shouldn't be treated in unprepared small community hospitals by well-meaning, but poorly trained nurses. The two victims of this mistake are now Ebola-free. From now on I believe things will be tighter.
They are Ebola free as far as you know right now...There is some speculation within the scientific community that the incubation period may be longer than 21days...
So, get this in your head
Don't talk to me like that...You don't know me, and wouldn't talk like that to my face so knock it off or we are done, Got it?
One foreigner died. He did not receive the treatments our fellow Americans have been receiving (which is ethically questionable but that's another story). ALL fellow American citizens who contracted Ebola while trying to help patients, have been successfully treated and got cured.
That you know of...I hope you're right.
In view of all of the above, don't you think that the fear has been excessive?
I think the so called "fear" has been hyped by liberals looking to label, mock, and stifle real concern...
Can you say in all confidence that the people who spread the fear, fan the fire, and yell out loud that Obama is trying to bring down America by not restricting flights, aren't actually speaking from a political agenda? Be honest, can you?
No more than liberals ready to scream racism at every FUBAR situation that proves our government dropped the ball, especially as you alluded to earlier in this post alone...
Is this a scary disease? You bet. Are we in danger of walking out of the house and contracting Ebola tomorrow? No...But that doesn't mean that we need smug, arrogant, dismissive bull**** from liberals that think they know it all, and to date sure look like every damned thing catches them by surprise.