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In reply to the discussion: Forget about Ebola. Look what the anti-vaxxers are doing to California [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)you should have good enough reading skills to realize that similes are not literal. When discussing severity, using a simile "It's like the common cold" would mean comparing severity. Ya know, the subject at hand. Not the literal cause of the disease, which is an lovely attempt to divert away from your claims that whooping cough is a minor disease that clears up quickly.
Secondly, if you want to talk about your massive reading skills, you should probably also have noticed that the OP was saying we should stop freaking out so much about ebola, and instead discuss these other, much more common diseases. In fact, your superior reading skill should have noticed that "Ebola" appears exactly once in the OP. Thus absolutely nowhere in this thread was anyone saying whopping cough is as bad of a disease as ebola. Until you attacked me claiming I did.
In other words, you are now attacking me for something I didn't do with an air of superiority in an attempt to disguise that you were wrong.
And I'm done wasting my time with you.