Question about ebola/beliefs/government........

[CathyA]

LOL.......yeah, I was thinking maybe there should have been a spoiler alert.

[gimmethesimplelife]

Dang it Rob, I'm only on Chapter 8!

Ouch....sorry Gregg! Really I am.....didn't know you were currently reading it. But the good news is that there are many other twists and turns in the plot that I have not given away to keep you engaged with the book. Rob

[mtnlaurel]

I am very late to the fray on this... I don't watch 24 hour news, right now
I did council my sister not to take a superfluous trip through NYC within the last 2 weeks.
She has kids and her reason for going was not pressing & she could get her points refunded.

I do however enjoy following Chris Christie. I get a kick out of him and sometimes even agree with him.
I truly want to have 2 parties functioning well for the American people and I think he gets things done.
(even if they are not always the correct things)

I don't get how such a snafu as the terrible conditions that the nurse quarantined at Newark happened.
Who was the PR person that signed off on that?

To ignore that there is a political posturing element to Ebola entering the US is naive.
The government HAS to at least appear to be handling this situation quasi-'correctly'
Perception does have value.

That's the problem with news as entertainment....
Granted not too many years ago families used to take picnics to the guillotines.

[catherine]

I like this FB post. As Gilda Radner said, "It's always something…"

[ApatheticNoMore]

It will only kill a few people. Which come to think of it were probably disposable people anyway.

hardly needs a /sarc But I'm sure the bad economy did kill people and BP as well (although wildlife mostly but people doing the cleanup were exposed to a lot) and of course ebola has killed people. Where is: "fukushima is going to kill us all?" Is there a 1918 version: Spanish flu is going to kill us all! A cold war version: mutually assured destruction via nuclear weapons is going to kill us all!

[CathyA]

There has to be a reasonable medium somewhere.

[JaneV2.0]

I have to say I don't remember the last time I worried about the freakout du jour--maybe when AIDS debuted? I think the world is a pretty intriguing place and a lot less threatening than in earlier eras. At least I don't have to worry about being burned alive because someone accused me of witchcraft or about dying a wretched death from bubonic plague. I don't have to submit to an arranged marriage or work myself to death on the family farm, or in some scullery somewhere. All in all, it could be lots worse. I suspect this Ebola brouhaha will blow over when Dr. Spencer finishes his treatment and any future infections are sporadic and treatable.

[iris lilies]

Decades ago I used to worry about nuclear warfare. It actually colored my view and I remember that the world looked less bright. I guess that was during the cold war.

Since then, I don't worry about the scare of the moment. I lived through one scare mongering period and I don't want to be sucked back into that black hole.

[Spartana]

Ouch....sorry Gregg! Really I am.....didn't know you were currently reading it. But the good news is that there are many other twists and turns in the plot that I have not given away to keep you engaged with the book. Rob

Ooohh The Stand - one of my favorites! I actually thought of that book when the first man with Ebola showed up in the US and you saw how many people he was in contact with and how easily a contagious disease could spread when just one person is infected. It's pretty amazing to see just how easy and fast a truly contagious disease could spread worldwide in a short period of time. Not that I feel Ebola is very communicable (it doesn't seem to be) but the "potential" for rapid spread of Ebola or any disease is an interesting thing to watch happen.

[IshbelRobertson]

Many years ago, long before The Stand, the BBC made a series, using the premise of a man, not a Westerner, because of course it had to be an apocalypse caused by Johnny-foreigner (!), arriving at a UK airport, coughing and sneezing. Then people started to die... The series was called The Survivors, and I LOVED it! They remade it a couple of years ago, with less mud and grubbiness, updated to more recent times. I watched it, but it wasn't a patch on the old series!

ETA here's a link to the wikipedia entry, it was made in 1975 and the remake in 2008

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survi...008_TV_series)