So another heroic Doctor Without Borders doctor has managed to get infected with Ebola

[markpkessinger]

47. The virus was going to arrive here sooner or later in any case . .

. . . if not via a Doctors Without Borders physician then from an international traveler. Look, for the guy who died in Dallas, the CDC identified a total of 48 people who had direct contact. And of those 48 -- including the man's immediate family who lived in the same apartment with him for a full five days while he was symptomatic, and who weren't removed from that apartment until several days after that -- only TWO people were infected: two nurses who directly treated him. They have both recovered, and all of the remaining 46 have reached the 21 day mark without becoming ill. That should tell you something about how extremely unlikely it is that this doctor transmitted the virus to anyone else (save perhaps his fiance, who is under quarantine, but so far is not symptomatic).

The hysteria over this, coming, it seems, mostly from those outside of New York, reminds me of the weeks and months following 9-11, when New Yorkers got to work cleaning up the mess and putting their lives back together while the rest of the country went into a collective fit of pants-shitting!