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EBOLA Panic Panic Panic Panic Poll Poll Poll Poll ...................................

At what count would you begin to get concerned.

  • 3000

  • 15,000

  • 30,000

  • 50,000

  • 1 Million

  • 10 Million

  • 100 Million

  • 250 million

  • 500 Million

  • 1 Billion

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At that point I'd become concerned because a lot of people were dying.

Panic on the other hand would only happen if it became airborne then found its way over here. Not bloody likely.
 
The spread would be more worrying than the death rate. Being that its hard to spread compared to many other diseases if it started moving faster than now would make me think it had mutated and the death rate would follow.
 
we jump from 50k to 1million?

100k or 500k seem like reasonable marks to start being concerned to me. But I choose 50k cause at 1M it would be pretty fuckin concerning already.
 
mnewsham said:
we jump from 50k to 1million?

100k or 500k seem like reasonable marks to start being concerned to me. But I choose 50k cause at 1M it would be pretty fuckin concerning already.
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but at 1 million why get concerned if the media would still report its difficult to catch etc..
 
I'm concerned now, just not in the way you think. The more concerning thing is that the disease isn't the real issue, its getting proper medical treatment that is the real problem.

Ebola could get a lot more scary with a mutation, but from what I've gathered its a simple enough disease from the genetic makeup standpoint that its doubtful it'll change into something a lot worse, and we might be able to come up with effective treatment/vaccine but its not a big enough threat to make it viable to put the effort into developing that right now. There's a lot of diseases that are a much bigger concern.
 
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mnewsham said:
we jump from 50k to 1million?

100k or 500k seem like reasonable marks to start being concerned to me. But I choose 50k cause at 1M it would be pretty fuckin concerning already.
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That's the thing, don't look at the numbers for alarm but where the numbers are.

1 million in several tightly grouped African nations is less alarming than 100k spread out to several continuants.


darkswordsman17 said:
I'm concerned now, just not in the way you think. The more concerning thing is that the disease isn't the real issue, its the issues with getting proper medical treatment for this current outbreak. There are diseases right now ravaging the world far worse than Ebola is.

Ebola could get a lot more scary with a mutation, but from what I've gathered its a simple enough disease from the genetic makeup standpoint that its doubtful it'll change into something a lot worse, and we might be able to come up with effective treatment/vaccine but its not a big enough threat to make it viable to put the effort into developing that right now (again, there are diseases doing far worse than it right now).
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THIS.

Ebola news is because there is nothing in the news so make something bigger than it is for ratings.

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Africa is a festering mess of nasty diseases. Why this one is the one the news is latching on to I don't understand, but I'm definitely not worried.
 
The loss of life and human suffering is sad and bad, but It does not panic me.

As far as panic, I think I would not worry about myself/my family/my friends contracting Ebola until the the count was in the tens or hundreds of millions, and in addition, at least thousands of cases in the USA, also assuming that the revolutionary new experimental drugs turn out to not be helpful.

A disease that can only be spread by fluid contact in a country with working sewage systems and plumbing is generally not a big threat or concern for epidemic.
 
I'm not concerned at all about ebola or any other humanity ending disease/virus. I already know the human race is doomed when I see and listen to the younger women at work.
 
I use the paper lining, put a 2x4 across the seat, and hover over all toilet seats, even my own...so I am basically 100% safe.
 
rsbennett00 said:
I'm not concerned at all about ebola or any other humanity ending disease/virus. I already know the human race is doomed when I see and listen to the younger women at work.
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The human race isn't necessarily doomed just because you personally have zero chance to procreate with them....
 
OCGuy said:
The human race isn't necessarily doomed just because you personally have zero chance to procreate with them....
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Hmm, ok, where do I even start with my response...

I don't know you but you come off as a bit of a negative nancy with your mind in the gutter.

Do you interact with 20 somethings daily? Maybe you are one of them so you don't see the problem?

I only said women because I'm generally the only guy around and have next to no interaction with 20 something men. This has nothing to do with procreation.
 
Absolutely zero worries from me. However, if something happened, and it started spreading more easily than it's capable of, I would be extremely worried - my wife is on the front line for stuff like that; I don't want her bringing it home to me.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Hmm, ok, where do I even start with my response...

I don't know you but you come off as a bit of a negative nancy with your mind in the gutter.

Do you interact with 20 somethings daily? Maybe you are one of them so you don't see the problem?

I only said women because I'm generally the only guy around and have next to no interaction with 20 something men. This has nothing to do with procreation.
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I interact with 20-somethings daily.

We're fine. Don't judge humanity by the failings of your fellow Starbuck's employees.

(Or a daycare? Hooters? I'm trying to think of workplaces that are all-but-one-person 20-something women. Not coming up with a long list.)
 
DrPizza said:
Absolutely zero worries from me. However, if something happened, and it started spreading more easily than it's capable of, I would be extremely worried - my wife is on the front line for stuff like that; I don't want her bringing it home to me.
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It's funny that you're worry is about her bringing it home to you instead of her contracting it.
 
I'm concerned all ready.

Depends on where it goes.

As far as spreading they had the guy in Saudi Arabia die before they confirmed it and are tracking down contacts it looks.

It can be transmitted by sweat, and will stay active for days after someone touches something.

You think the doctors wearing almost clean room suits treating patients just happened to get it?

Still not spazzing out on it myself or anything, but I think it's all ready more serious than they've let out and still going up exponentially atm.

I've seen estimates the counts are at least 50% low.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Hmm, ok, where do I even start with my response...

I don't know you but you come off as a bit of a negative nancy with your mind in the gutter.

Do you interact with 20 somethings daily? Maybe you are one of them so you don't see the problem?

I only said women because I'm generally the only guy around and have next to no interaction with 20 something men. This has nothing to do with procreation.
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Your sexual frustration is clouding your thought process. But it's ok, it happens to the best of us.

I'm not in my 20s, but interact daily with someone who is. Not sure it's that earth - shattering or odd.
 
Millions could die of this outbreak and the disease be contained within a few hundred km of it's source.

What we should really learn and be concerned about this outbreak is how Irrationality and Dogmatism is making the situation much worse. Some people are purposely defying good advice on how to prevent the spread, because they won't abandon Tradition and they believe there's a conspiracy against them.
 
I have a new idea. What if we all post on various places - here, reddit, wherever, that there's been an outbreak of Ebola in New Orleans. 480 people have gotten ill, and 370 of them have already died? While that's not quite believable by itself, toss in a "Obama told the CDC to remove any reference to it, to avoid a panic." "Government agencies are deleting the information from websites such as Facebook almost as fast as it's posted." Add in a few phrases like that, and the conspiracy nutcases will defy Einstein and spread misinformation faster than the speed of light. 🙂
 
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