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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's see.  According to Miriam-Webster, hysteria=behaving or reacting in an extreme way because of fear.

Now let's look at some of the things that have been posted here over the last few days, following the announcement of ONE case diagnosed in the US:

--Close the borders!
--The government is lying to us!
--I'm never using another airplane bathroom!
--I'm going to quit riding the Metro!
--One person (who's temperature was taken before check-in) could infect an entire plane!
--Hoardes of West Africans with Ebola are going to start flying to the US!

Yeah, you're right.  None of those reactions sound extreme at all.
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Also, you're changing your tune now, but what you originally labeled "hysteria" was a person asking why it was a stretch that one person might infect a plane full of people, if the Spanish nurse got it from being in the same room with an infected patient.  No exclamation points involved, even.  Not even a statement.  A question.  But, a person must be marginalized -- and accused of mental illness -- just for asking the question in your world.  Gee, I wonder why our dialogue in this country is at such a low level.
Also, if you think "not using an airplane bathroom" or "not taking the metro" are extreme actions, then, um, wow.  I wonder what would happen if you actually saw an extreme action.
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Hysteria lady does not know Ebola.  I work in the field.  The World Health/CDC is shitting their pants because they know we did not contain it in Africa and now it is going to be very hard to contain.  This is not 'hysteria'.  This is fact.[/quote]

I know.  It's the same people who like to act like they're better than others because being worried about anything is uncool.  Apathy is so hip. I come from a family of public health physicians and studied epidemiology.  I know that even if we get lucky with this one disease (which is not at all certain), the slipshod response shows just how very unprepared we are for any epidemic -- whether it originates elsewhere or here.  They basically are just saying "don't worry, we'll never have an epidemic, we don't need to be prepared". It's embarrassingly incompetent.  And lack of trust is fomented by the fact that some of the things they told us a week or two ago haven't been true.  They said people coming in on those flights were being temp-checked.  Some were, some weren't.  Sanjay Gupta on CNN said he wasn't -- last week.  Is he just lying?  Or hysterical?  Numerous people I know said they weren't.  
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