5 Reasons America Can Calm the F#@% Down About Ebola

[Warpy]

26. #3. The Panic Is Worse Than the Disease

"Now that the media has sandblasted us with fear, it's time to clamber over each other like a crowd in a theater that someone yelled "fire" in before actually lighting it on fire. While New Jersey and Massachusetts both saw scares that later turned out to be hogwash, reported Ebola cases shot up despite the verified victim count remaining at exactly one.

"So, sure, you could take Trump's advice and pile-drive the economy by closing every airport from Boston to L.A. under the mantra of "better safe than sorry." Or you could remember that SARS killed only 800 people while costing $50 billion in global cash money for this same kind of fartbag sensationalism. In other words, shut off the TV and go plan that airplane trip home this Thanksgiving"
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That is always the case. When a disease is airborne and being spread, panic is what makes people think they can run away from it if they run far enough, taking the disease with them and spreading it to a whole new area. That's what happened during the Black Plague.

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