Personally, if my neighbor starts bleeding from the eyes and ears while vomiting on my yard, I'd rather see as little of them as possible! Not saying it'll happen, simply that my awareness is up a bit more than normal.Jezebel wrote:So does anyone here on this board know anyone who has Ebola? Does anyone know someone who knows someone with Ebola? Has anyone had any firsthand or even secondhand experience with Ebola at all? Hell, I'll settle for third or fourth hand.
I find it highly suspicious that a person could go to a city in Africa and feel certain that no cases of a certain illness were in the city he was staying in when he's in a country where the disease is most prevalent. I have seen so many scares about different diseases come and go that remain unsubstantiated by any proof I could get my hands on, that I'm more inclined to think someone is making the whole thing up than that I am in danger. Besides, I've seen evidence of the government lying again and again. They've kind of lost my trust.
Show me the proof, baby! Something that I can see myself. Then I'll believe. Otherwise, I'm so unafraid of Ebola, it's not even funny.
On a totally unrelated note, I used to be an accountant for a nationwide health insurance company. Has anyone noticed that their deductibles went up, as well as their premiums? Rising deductibles are used as a disincentive for medical care utilization. In other words, they put the lion's share of the financial burden on YOU up front so that you won't want to use it. This is also one of the major effects of the PPACA, aka Obamacare. How do you solve a doctor shortage when giving more people access to fewer doctors? Make doctors visits too expensive for people to want to go.
Perhaps the reason I bring this up is because people who just think they have the "flu" will be less likely to get treatment, thus allowing the disease to progress much further and faster until they are beyond help and extremely contagious to their family and everyone around. On the other hand, those without health insurance (lower on the poverty scale, perhaps illegal immigrants) will be the ones most effected by ebola as they go to the ER for treatment rather than a doctor. Long story short, be careful who handles your food and be wary of hospitals, especially ERs.
My $.02.