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Thread #154975   Message #3666073
Posted By: Mrrzy
04-Oct-14 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
Subject: RE: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
Just because something else is worse doesn't mean something isn't bad.

The flu has vaccines. THe flu has treatments that work. Ebola has neither.

Besides, *this* *isn't* *about* *Americans* *it* *is* *about* Guineans, Liberians, Sierra Leonians, and so Ivorians, Malians, Nigerans (not Nigerians), Senegalese, and Guinea-Bassauans first and foremost. The West African nations in or bordering the current outbreak/epidemic.

The idea that now that there is a case in the US we should care more, or that diseases that kill more Americans are more important, sickens me,