Ebola is in my backyard

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I live in Northeast Ohio, just 2 cities away from where Amber Vinson, the 2nd nurse with Ebola, stayed last weekend. Everyone in my area is freaking out about it. My aunt drove by the house where the woman stayed last weekend and she said that it is covered in yellow tape with police and media surrounding it. It is pretty cool when worldwide news is happening less than 10 miles from your house, but it is also scary because that means that Ebola is close by. I think that this is all part of a plan by the government to wipe out the population. They know how to prevent it from coming to the country, but have failed to do so.

i highly doubt there will ever be more than a few isolated cases of ebola in the US. i have an MD. as i always tell my husband when he goes on a paranoid binge: when you hear the word conspiracy, think delusion.

I don't think Ebola is a conspiracy, but I do think we should all be at least a little concerned about it.

"A major outbreak of Ebola in the US and elsewhere in the West is unlikely given the strong health systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) says."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29640470

It would be frightening if it could be spread airborne, or transmitted before symptoms develop. I don't know what that nurse was thinking to fly commercial cross country, though. The same with Nancy Schneiderman.. the level of disregard and denial of protocol makes me thankful that it isn't that easily transmitted. It does seem an ominous precursor for what could be in a different situation.

I have no faith that America is ready for it.

i'd bet any amount up to all i own that there will be no ebola pandemic in the US.

I sure hope you're right. but are we any better prepared than we were a century ago during the 1918 flu pandemic? the news coming out of texas is not reassuring in this respect.

For some reason, this reminds me of when I was in grade school and we would have drills and hide under our desks in case Russia attacked the US with nuclear weapons. We see how silly that is today that covering our heads with our hands and gettting under our desks would not protect someone from radiation. I feel the same type of silliness revolves around the Ebola virus. It is not airborne and can only be contacted by close proximity to bodily fluids such as blood, etc. In the 3rd world there is a tendency to re-use needles for cost saving measures. There is a reason the nurses came down with it as they were in close proximity to patient's blood, and such.