Should we worry about Ebola?

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

I think some of the fears are over blown.

[Lief 🗽]

People in the affected areas should worry, and we should worry for the people there, but as Americans we're completely 100% safe.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I fear Ebola more than I do Putin, that's for sure.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

People in the affected areas should worry, and we should worry for the people there, but as Americans we're completely 100% safe.

[Storebought]

I'm not into the habit of handling corpses, so I think I'll be fine from Ebola.

Mosquito-borne tropical illnesses are an entirely different matter.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Africa has a major problem with distrust of medical workers, disobedience of quarantine, and a failure to understand the mechanism by which disease spreads. We're separated by the disease by a huge ocean (both literally and culturally).

Let's be realistic about the numbers. Since the outbreak began, there have been 932 deaths due to Ebola. In the same time frame, 300,000 Africans were lost to Malaria and 600,000 were lost to Tuberculosis. And, of course, we'll likely see another 1,000,000+ Africans die to HIV this year.

It's a scary-sounding disease, but it's not a real threat. If there's any contagious disease to be concerned with in the U.S., it's the flu. It'll kill thousands of Americans this year.

[Free Bird]

The idea of people suddenly getting it when it is not airborne all over the country is a sure sign of panic and knee jerk reactions. It was still stupid to bring the live virus here.

[Sol]

Countdown to Beet in 3,2,1...

[Simfan34]

Better to worry now and feel a bit silly afterwards rather than to ignore it and be sorry later...

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Take sensible precautions /=/ worry, so no.

[ElectionsGuy]

No, according to research, the virus is deadly and painful, but it isn't very contagious. I watched a TYT video on this last night

[TDAS04]

No point worrying. 

[Vega]

People in the affected areas should worry, and we should worry for the people there, but as Americans we're completely 100% safe.

[Joe Republic]

Only because it will selectively wipe out our nation's supply of atheists, gays and sluts. 

[Middle-aged Europe]

Only because it will selectively wipe out our nation's supply of atheists, gays and sluts. 

"Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography, and abortion."

^^ That's a statement so ridiculous that I can't even find myself outraged by its bigotry as I usually would. Material for the Comedy Goldmine.

[tik 🪀✨]

We shouldn't worry, but we should totally overreact and treat it more seriously than it probably will be. I'm not being facetious - you don't roll your eyes at potential outbreaks like this. The potential for catastrophe, although hard to imagine for us, is something I would expect a serious government to help in limiting. Humane preventative action is prudent, intelligent governing.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

No.  This is just Media Sensationalist Disease 2014. 

[tik 🪀✨]

Highly contagious, horrifying disease with no cure or useful treatments with a 60% mortality rate that authorities are finding extreme difficulty in isolating = media sensationalism.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Highly contagious, horrifying disease with no cure or useful treatments with a 60% mortality rate that authorities are finding extreme difficulty in isolating = media sensationalism.

Yea... read above.  932 deaths.

[MaxQue]

Highly contagious, horrifying disease with no cure or useful treatments with a 60% mortality rate that authorities are finding extreme difficulty in isolating = media sensationalism.

It's not highly contagious, by any strecht of mind. If it was highly contagious, there would have been a 5 or 6 digits death toll.