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Even though it's kinda died down somewhere, this Ebola hysteria, in both the media and the populace at large, has really pissed me off. We have 30,000 firearm deaths a year, not a peep about sensible gun regulation. We have upwards of 25,000 deaths from the flu each year, but some people won't get vaccinated because "the flu shot causes the flu" or some other insane reason. How many kids get sick and how many die each year from preventable childhood diseases when their parents didn't get them immunized because the parents just 'knew' the vaccines cause autism, or mental retardation, or were a way for the government to implant tracking circuitry in their kids or some other batshit crazy theory. We have 400,000 deaths a year from smoking related diseases, but we've still have those cancer sticks on sale in stores, and everyone's okay with that.
But my GOD, one person dies of Ebola, the other half dozen or so in our country that are infected have been treated and cured. Heroic health care workers going to West Africa to combat the disease there so it won't get here, return home, asymptomatic, and they are treated like lepers!
We are are a nation of hypochondriacal idiots!
Here's a handy chart!
I wish this was published on the front page of every newspaper and was the main story on every news show for an entire week! Then maybe, just MAYBE, people would act sensibly about this.
But I doubt it.
POLT
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