Texas health care worker tests positive for Ebola

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106. Lol. "...shut that whole thing down."

I'm sorry. I don't mean to laugh about such a serious subject but that reminds me of Todd Adkins comment on 'legitimate rape' victims not getting pregnant because their bodies can 'shut that whole thing down.' I really look at this whole Ebola epidemic from the view of perspective. My mother was a little girl back in the 1918's in Mexico when the Spanish Flu pandemic struck and she remembers the screams of her relatives and neighbors and in her own home as young bodies were carried out and buried in burlap shrouds. She lost 2 brothers and 2 sisters in that pandemic. 50 to 100 million lives were lost world wide to the flu. It was estimated that the Black Death killed between 30 to 60% of Europe's population in the 1300s. Ebola strikes terror today because it's been so sensationalized and because it produces such a ghastly death. It's kind of like the hysteria over the AIDs epidemic when healthcare workers would leave food outside of the rooms of AIDs patients because they feared contact with them. Sure, AIDs is epidemic in the US, Africa and many other countries, mostly through ignorance and the criminal interference of religious leaders and groups, but Ebola is being hyped in the same way. It isn't very easy to contract and bodies won't be stacking up in morgues. We won't be living with it like AIDs and while it's a horrific disease, it won't be like the Black Death.