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Is the UK doing enough about Ebola?

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Original post by White.R3sistance

4,500 people isn't many. The way the media goes on about it you would think millions have died. I mean really what you look at the size of Africa 4,500 isn't anything to worry about.When it gets to hundreds of thousands we should worry.

So we should be perfectly find with the development of chemical and biological weapons (supposing they weren't illegal already), after all, until they're used they haven't killed more than a handful, their potential is irrelevant.

Paper sensationalise headlines to sell, but that doesn't remove the POTENTIAL (albeit improbable) risk to us, and the actual risk to the people there. Extrapolate the current rates to supper limits of predictions of infection rates and you'll have your hundreds of thousands within a few months, probably your first million not long after.

Apathy is dangerous, and the "necessary" precautions are relatively cheap, and a hell of a lot cheaper than apathy could be, especially when you consider apathy would extend to doing jack **** about WA, which then increases the risk to us, even if it does remain minimal.

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Wissenschaft

Ebola is disastrous to West Africa, because the media scares business away. 4000 people is tiny, just over 10 times the number who died in flight MH17.

Reply 22

Mackay

Ebola infects two healthy people, compared with HIV's infection rate of four. People don't walk around scared of catching HIV, so there's no need to with Ebola imho.