Ebola and other things.

[Lburou]

My view is that its easy to get hysterical about anything in our media-driven world.  Take our actions to monitor and find terrorists after September 11th for instance.  It will be easy to panic over this ebola thing too.  Unthinkable viruses have plagued humanity regularly for a long time....millions die.  (A lot like the viruses mites bring into our hives.)  Hold your water over ebola,  some of us will die, but most will likely stay alive long enough to contribute to successive generations. 

We can't protect the public against everything and still have much liberty.  Guard our liberty fiercely.

[Gypsi]

Thank you Lburou.  Good to hear a voice of sanity.

If all the troubles I can imagine, plus those that the media can imagine, were to come to pass, the world would have ended 10 or 15 years ago. When this whole fear-mongering in the media really got going, around 2001...  Before then we had confidence in science and some wits about us, and personally I am less than 50 miles from that ebola case and I simply refuse to run around cowering in fear or trying to terrify everyone else.

I can see where the husband of a nurse would worry.  Her job puts her at risk, but for the general public the risk is simply not that high.

[barry42001]

Hmmm anyone still think is contained, the sheriff that served the quarantine notice to apartment where the first Ebola patient lived, is now in the hospital with some symptoms. Note: he never had contact with the patient or body secretions. So a how did he get it...

[Jen]

Let's hope he just has the flu 

[Lburou]

Hmmm anyone still think is contained, the sheriff that served the quarantine notice to apartment where the first Ebola patient lived, is now in the hospital with some symptoms. Note: he never had contact with the patient or body secretions. So a how did he get it...

You have your finger on the big issue here.  Remember when AIDS was new?  Same thing going on now.  I live south and west of Dallas, glad the prevailing wind is from the southeast in case this new virus goes airborne.  It would be very easy to be checked out for the littlest thing after visiting that apartment...would be for me anyway.  Hope he has the flu like jen. 

[Gypsi]

he had the flu.  Ya know we do all die sometime.

[Jen]

Well okay Gypsi... but I was invisioning my demise a little more outstanding than ebola, like maybe a 10 stack of supers at 60 pounds each fall on me and instantly I'm sent to the heavens. That would reach the news papers as well. You guys would hear about that clean over on the east coast on Fox News.

[riverbee]

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and maybe us here in the midwest.......

[Jen]

Wouldn't that be a hoot?!!

[Gypsi]

I figure I'll get run over by a bulldozer trying to knock down a forest for an oil pipeline actually, if I had time to go chain myself to a tree.

[Jen]

I wouldn't want you to chain yourself to a tree Gypsi, for one simple reason. Somebody... or more... will have to come and cart your poo away in a bucket everyday that you are chained to that tree. There was a story of a woman who climbed a redwood tree here in upper Calif and wouldn't come down until it was promised thru congress that they wouldn't cut down the redwoods. People in support brought her food and roped a bucket up and down for her poo every day. Guess What! It Worked ~

[Gypsi]

It does work. I've been at a few tree blocking protests if they were local.  An elderly friend of mine got herself arrested for chaining herself to one, several hundred year old marker oak, stepped on by the native americans to mark a trail.  Arlington cut it down anyway, nothing works in Arlington.