Thursday, October 2, 2014

Ebola is Not Concerning Me at Present

Dallas is only about thirty minutes from here so Ebola in the wild is not making me feel cuddly like a bunny rabbit.  But you have to do such disgusting stuff to catch it, all or most of which involve contact with bodily fluids.  It seems the operating process is don't kiss anyone if blood leaks from unusual parts of the body (i.e. yours or theirs).

Ebola does not spread through the air but there are already cranks out there screaming, it might, it might.  What if it mutates.

The fact is that it does not spread through the air.

It's a tough disease to catch if you are not living in filthy conditions (e.g. poor sewage systems, poor funeral customs, etc, etc).

My concern about the disease isn't that it will rise up and kill us all but rather that any people, anywhere on the planet, in the face of such overwhelming riches, have to live in such squalor that it contains an immediate risk of killing them.

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