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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who the F steals mattresses and sheets soiled with blood/vomit/stool??

Those people deserve to get Ebola and die, I just feel sorry for the people they infect before they do.[/quote]

I don't think they "deserve" it, but this is living proof of Darwin's theories.  Pretty much too dumb to survive.[/quote]

It's easy to judge when your rich and educated.

These people stole the supplies because many of them have NOTHING. and not nothing in the way we think about it, like we have to drink Folgers instead of Starbucks. They have to scramble to survive. 
Aside from that, it's not dumbness. It's a lack of ed caution, even the basics. They don't understand germ theory or infection control or any of that. Most educated people in the US can barely grasp that handwashing helps... You really expect someone who fights to live or to eat really thinks that a blood stained mattress will make them sick. Or do you think they care? When looking out for your own survival, you don't think much about the spread to the community at large. You look that now you have a mattress that you can sell on the black market so you can eat tonight.

Ebola will likely become more transmissible, but it will also become less virulent with respect to mortality. That's what's saved us from massive outbreaks so far - people were too sick to travel and died quickly so transmission was pretty much limited to those in the immediate vicinity. In this outbreak, mortality rates are down, but numbers of infected are up because people aren't dying immediately and are well enough to travel, even to clinics, this spreading the virus. As a virus, it's really not very effective at spreading itself yet because it kills too fast- that can be expected to temper down if more outbreaks happen as it adapts to human hosts. [/quote]

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