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Are You Personally Scared About the Ebola Virus?

Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 10.9%

  • No

    Votes: 57 89.1%
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TheDemSocialist

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Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
 
People should be blaming that other black guy, Thomas Eric Duncan for bringing ebola to the US, not obama.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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I'm not scared at all and I've even been to a hospital that had an ebola patient there when I visited.
 
Nope, not at all.
 
No. The US medical system can handle ebola. Basically every single person that Duncan looked at is under surveillance or quarantine.
 
No. I know a manufactured media frenzy when I see it.
 
As for they "But what if it mutates and goes airborne?!" hysteria, if viruses did that even a fraction as often as people thought they did, we'd all be dead.
 
No.

Yet the govt. should do a better screening of those coming into the US from known infected areas.

Heck. I live in a small town in Arizona. A resident who just came back from Africa has placed himself and family in the 21 day isolation.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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The probability of dying of Ebola is so far down the list of possible causes of death as to be totally off the radar for me.
 
Are You Personally Scared About the Ebola Virus?
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i'd say that i'm concerned. thankfully, it's not airborne, or i'd be really concerned. this one is passed through body fluids, so that makes it a little more unlikely that it will spread like wildfire in a sanitized environment like the US. however, we should still keep an eye on it, and i think that we should seriously restrict air travel out of that region.

let's hope that they are making a vaccine. i wouldn't mind working in that field. you get to do a lot of good and save lives.

i once worked with a strain of e. coli 0126 with a theoretical infectious dose of one organism under BL2 conditions. i've never worked with a BL4 organism like Ebola, though.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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Sure. I live in Southern California, home to the nations largest population of illegal aliens. If Ebola can enter the US as easily as it did, it would be even easier for outbreaks to occur in countries who are feeding the illegal migration through our porous border just south of here.

With little trust in government in those countries, and little medical care to speak of, infected illegal aliens could quite easily cross the border and head to cities containing large populations of illegal aliens already. Once there, the spread could be dramatic.

It's foolish not to be concerned with the poor national response to this health threat.
 
A man made virus designed as a biological weapon would be far and away more scary than a few cases of Ebola.

Should the Mideast crazies, for example, develop a virus that has a long incubation period, a high fatality rate, and is easy to pass on through the air, then release it to kill the infidel, it could do far and away more damage than any natural disease has done since the black plague of the middle ages.

and I don't even think much about that possibility. Why would I worry about Ebola?
 
:cool:I'm the least germaphobe person ever... I think I deserve to die if my body can't survive it xD because then... IM WEAK!!!!:cool:
 
Helix said:
i'd say that i'm concerned. thankfully, it's not airborne, or i'd be really concerned. this one is passed through body fluids, so that makes it a little more unlikely that it will spread like wildfire in a sanitized environment like the US. however, we should still keep an eye on it, and i think that we should seriously restrict air travel out of that region.

let's hope that they are making a vaccine. i wouldn't mind working in that field. you get to do a lot of good and save lives.

i once worked with a strain of e. coli 0126 with a theoretical infectious dose of one organism under BL2 conditions. i've never worked with a BL4 organism like Ebola, though.
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Well, since you're going to be all serious-like, then I'll amend my earlier post to say that all infectious diseases should be treated with concern. There's just no reason I've seen that we should be completely losing our collective **** over it.
 
Cardinal said:
Well, since you're going to be all serious-like, then I'll amend my earlier post to say that all infectious diseases should be treated with concern. There's just no reason I've seen that we should be completely losing our collective **** over it.
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no, certainly not. however, this is the time i'd like to see it contained, not later when / if it spreads.
 
I worry, some what. Mostly out of precaution for my family and friends.

[I do work for a hospital and a couple of emergency clinics so, I deem the worry/precaution necessary]
 
Scared? No. With all the other diseases out there, ebola is pretty low on my list, and even then I refuse to live in fear of pretty much anything.

That which doesn't kill you....... ;)
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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Scared? No. Do I trust corrupt and political state agencies to be honest about the virus and its risks? No.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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We should be scared that Obama still has 27 more months in the White House.

The Obama administration State Department issued the visa to the individual (Duncan) who became infected with Ebola in his home country in Liberia.

Obama's Department of Homeland Security allowed the Ebola infected individual into the United States.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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Of course I am concerned.

What kind of a person looks at a potential widespread disease and isn't worried?

Just because we're the US doesn't mean people can't contract and spread viruses - and die - at an alarming rate. Just because we have electricity and internet doesn't mean we're safe from such things.

Epidemics happen when the spread of the disease or ailment outpaces the rate of care and cure.
 
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