To wonder why we aren’t worried about Ebola

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There’s a new outbreak in the Congo. Average death rate is 50%. It’s also highly virulent.

Block Google on every device you own!

Honestly OP chill out, we have more pressing issues closer to home.

I’m not worried about Covid19 but I am about Ebola.
For the reasons other posters have given the risk in the UK from Ebola is not high even if it was to spread here.

Have you also heard of norovirus, common cold, poverty, heights, sharks, toxic shock syndrome?
Beware anything that may, or may fuckin never, kill you.

Ebola has been on the go for decades without spreading across the globe. Why would it suddenly spread now?

I’ve only recently discovered radon too!

I think you’ll find that Friedrich Dorn got there before you.

I'd add life to that list. It's bloody dangerous being alive.

Ebola is a very difficult disease to spread across large areas as it tends to kill its host in a relatively short space of time, hence why outbreaks tend to be quite localised.

As others have said you cannot transmit Ebola until you are symptomatic and usually by that stage people are incapacitated and confined to their home/a hospital bed so don’t walk around infecting people. You need to have direct contact to catch Ebola, either with the person’s bodily fluids (blood, faeces, vomit, etc) or with an item that has been contaminated by those fluids (clothes, bed sheets, etc).

OP, there have been 11 Ebola outbreaks in the DRC since 1976. It is very, very far from a new phenomenon. It badly affects those living in countries where it recurs, but even there it can be managed effectively.

There’s no point in starting to worry about this now. If it hasn’t managed to become a pandemic in the last 45 years I think we can safely assume it isn’t going to now.

Because it is not in the U.K. and has treatment available

Madagaskar has had a few plaque outbreaks in recent years if you need more stuff to worry about.

It’s strange how it’s okay to worry about some things; see www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3927684-To-feel-extremely-pessimistic-about-humanitys-future

But not Ebola or radon.

And don't worry OP, if it came here Boris would squash it's sombrero, so you'd be fine.

Ebola is spread through direct contact, blood or body fluids. It is much less transmissible than covid-19. We also know much more about and due to the low transmission rates cases can be quickly traced and isolated.

If I hadn't seen your username and your rational posts on other threads I'd think you were being serious

On a serious note though, ebola has been going on for a while there, no one has really given a crap because it's very unlikely it will effect us

If I hadn't seen your username and your rational posts on other threads I'd think you were being serious

Is OP a troll?

There was a comment in the Daily Mail comments from someone predicting a worldwide Ebola pandemic. It got me thinking, should I be worried?

Don’t know what to think!

Hmm daily mail news

Thump.

OK, well played OP!

No @zscaler, it seems trying to provoke a fairly interesting conversation using a slightly unconventional method and perhaps prove a point.

I'd be very worried, we are going to die....at some point in the future, it's one of the few certainties in life.

Unless climate change gets us first.

Well let’s face it, 2020 is certainly chucking stuff at the world isn’t it.

Ebola is more easily contained, especially given the lack of travel etc at the moment. But Ebola AND covid are not a combination any country would want to be dealing with.

I posted on the pessimism thread OP. I've been pessimistic all my life - but I don't worry about it all day and night, I live my life and enjoy most of it, too.
Because pessimism and actual worry are two different things.

I’m not worried about Covid19 but I am about Ebola.

You’be got this the wrong way round. Ebola is usually pretty easy to contain. While it’s got a higher fatality rate than COVID, you’re only really contagious once it’s obvious you’ve got Ebola.

COVID OTOH is pretty much the perfect virus for causing a serious global problem. It’s reasonably contagious and not too fatal to wipe itself out but contagious before you know you are ill. It also doesn’t behave like a typical respiratory virus and respond well to the treatments you’d expect it to.