The biggest threat from Ebola is the paranoia and panic that is being generated; people will be discriminated against, injured, or even killed, just because they're suspected of having Ebola. In the United States, you're more likely to contract Typhoid or Cholerea (both potentially lethal diseases) than Ebola, but the fear mongers are fanning the flames of the current fear-du-jour. It's really sad what lengths these people will go to; and Rush Scumbaugh's statement is the worst.

These days, it seems, humanity pursues, and even embraces, the REAL Four Horsemen Of The Apocolypse: Arrogance, Greed, Paranoia, and Hatred.

When will it end?

Palindromedary ~ If they really want to reduce the population in Africa, why don't they just voluntarily hand out birth control pills and condoms? It seems to me the cost would be about the same and there would be no suffering and loss. Although, it would make sense if they wanted to perfect a new weapon. Again, the military industrial complex demonstrates why it has to go.

Thanks for those links. Most provocative.

Limbaugh's comment...actually more like a screamed pronouncement...that Obama is purposely bringing ebola to the US in order to kill white people is beyond the pale. I hope that the rest of his sponsors drop him over this. And I hope someone realizes that comments like that are designed to undermine our government and destroy our President...and that is tantamount to treason.

Malnutrition is an epidemic in the US with 3 million children living in food deprived house holds. 2000 to 3000 elder die each year from malnutrition, according to a livestrong article.

Normally, when the government pushes the media to create a distraction for the public like Ebola; a citizenry should look, very close, at what legislation is being considered in congress at the same time.

Don't take you eye off the ball.

Absolutely! This isn't about being an alarmist, its about a virulent virus with the potential to be another epidemic similar to the Spanish flu of 1918. Any of you who do not understand virus' should read some academic material in microbiology. I was in the initial battle of the HIV epidemic in the early 80's. Saw many friends and people die. At the time, there wasn't enough information on how the virus was transmitted yet understood. When the nature of the virus was understood. transmission of bodily fluids by direct contact or blood. As time progressed, the HIV virus was far less virulent then the Ebola virus. Why? As a person involved in hospice care, I never worried if someone sneezed or coughed unless there was blood but even then it was by direct contact or transmission into my system. The HIV virus didn't live long outside the host like the Ebola virus. The chances of getting HIV from someone by kissing is probably less than 1% unlike the Ebola virus where you can get if the person is contagious by touching the fluids of a person and breathing in the potential virus. I believe the government, CDC, NH and those leading physicians are down playing how dangerous and lethal this virus is. In all my years of dealing with AIDS patients, never did I have to wear a HAZMAT suit and over my with face and head with the top of the line goggles and head gear. And even bleach all the clothing of those ill. Never.

I believe many of you are taking this all to lightly.

Is elite globalist next attempt at race war in America, which media consumers are swallowing hook, line and sinker. Fearing fellow humans of a different shade of skin tone. These racist fascist around this town can't think without neo-con media telling them what to think, who to hate.

aphrodite: It scares me even more that the Democrats might gain the power. The Democrats are no better than the Republicans...perhaps worse...because they do the bidding of the ruling elite...just like the Republicans do...except they have so many people fooled into believing that they are going to change things for the betterment of the constituents that voted for them. There really is no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats....just different window dressing...they both work for the ruling elite...the corporations...Wall Street...and the Bankster...and especially the Military Industrial Complex. Look how these manipulators have once again steered people into being ok with spending all that money on killing people in their newest war in the Middle East. If it isn't false horror stories of Iraqi soldiers bayoneting babies from incubators or throwing them out the windows of the hospital (Bush 1) it's a Neocon created 9/11. Now, it's ISIS beheading a few westerners! Americans are such fraidy cat pushovers.

Think of it this way...Limpballs is part of the psi-wars against the American people that the ruling elite is conducting. The ruling elite wants us to vote for one of the two main parties that run this country...Republican or Democrat. They certainly don't want the people to massively riot against them like has happened in other countries. So Limpballs and his ilk creates the propaganda that many dummies may believe...and they'll most likely vote Republican. But it's really a two edge sword. The other edge is used to scare people into voting Democrat, because the Republican talk scares them, so they vote Democrat. But that's not going to help us, the 99%, out one bit. The ruling elite wants you to either vote Republican or Democrat. If we all voted Green or even better, Communist (if that party was allowed to even run for political office in the US). It would scare the bejesus out of the ruling elite and they might see fit to change their ways a little. If it doesn't happen that way, then I'm afraid that we will all eventually have to take more drastic measures...like they have done in other countries that have gone through revolutions. And that would get pretty messy. We have to show the Democrats, and their puppet masters, that we are no longer going to be fooled nor will we keep playing their game of bait and switch. They bait us with progressive and liberal sounding speeches and the specter of "what if the Republicans gained more control" then switch to their real selves...no different than the Republicans, after they get elected.

I appreciate Thim's comments! Indeed, the odds of wining lotto are better than contracting Ebola or being killed in the United States by an ISIS terrorist. It is far more likely that you or I might be killed by a drunk driver or gun fire randomly sprayed by a semi automatic weapon into a group of college kids partying near a beautiful Santa Barbara beach. 100 people (average) died in auto accidents today, half of which involved alcohol.

The unfolding of human events in West Africa, a bewildered continent of westn neglect and abuse. Overcome by civil war with untold, needless loss of death, starvation, cure able childhood disease of deadly poverty. For a brief moment the world will but a moment call our ADHD attention to the realty of their scant existence. No medicine. No sanitation. No education of society.

As the millionaire anchors read their scripts from highly secure, high rise studios, the reality hit hard! We are witnessing live the perpetual fulfillment of the dark ages - the days of the plague and the brutal, warring factions of the rich and the zealots continue on their path of eternal war.

From the same "expert" doctors who have said that the Hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan was a "first class" hospital, who now says that they didn't think it would be a good idea to shut off passengers coming to the US from West African countries, just how right can they be if that "first class" hospital sent Duncan away the first time even after he had told them that he had just come from West Africa, had all the signs of Ebola? Sure doesn't look like a "first class" hospital to me. And if that hospital was considered a "first class" hospital...what about all of those other hospitals that may not be "first class" hospitals? Maybe those same people would have said that checking everyone coming into the country for signs of Ebola was going too far?

Now Spain has an Ebola case. I've heard reports even on main stream news...and not Fox news either...that this is a rapidly spreading disease that could wind up infecting millions of people. But, if you fancy yourself as rather level-headed and are being very "adult" about this maybe you should just go shopping....but I think I'll just try to stay away from the public for a while...physically anyway. You know, maybe that's why people keep voting for Democrats or Republicans even though they both keep screwing us...they think they are being "level-headed" and sensible. How did Obama work out for you the first time? The second time? So, they threw some people a carrot...ACA (originally a Republican plan that, in addition, wrote into law that Medicare cannot take advantage of bulk prices...they have to pay whatever price the pharmaceuticals want to charge). I guess it works for some people anyway. What about the costly wars that Obama continues to wage. And what about increase government secrecy and prosecution of whistleblowers and a government that favors rich people and screws the rest of us. What about massive spying on us? And I'd bet that no matter how badly Democrats may talk him down now...if it were possible for him to run a third time...I'd bet the same dummies would continue to vote for him because they'd be so scared of a Republican President. And it is not just Obama but all of Congress...the Congress has something like an 8% approval yet these crooks continue to be reelected. So it was the last time and so would it be again. Talk about continually repeating the same stupid things over and over again and expecting different results. Shear folly!

Now, there is another hemorrhagic disease making it's rounds...Marburg Hemorrhagic Disease....another big killer similar to Ebola. It comes from the same family as Ebola. It has about an 80% lethality. It does the same thing that Ebola does...causes the organs to turn to mush and bleeding out of every oriface ...including pores of the skin.

Since Ebola or Marburg, not to mention the other similar diseases, has the same symptoms as a common cold or influenza, if hospitals are swamped with people thinking they might have Ebola...I wonder how many who are actually infected with Ebola will fall through the cracks. The health care professional will ask "have you been to West Africa or been in contact with someone who has recently been there?" And most will probably say no. But, how do they know? The next case might be from people who never even knew someone who had been in West Africa..but who had touched the same things...perhaps sneezed on maybe even from behind in a crowded bus or theater or grocery store. Not many people are very fanatically diligent enough to wash their hands after they touch things. Sure, maybe after going to the bathroom...or before eating..they wash their hands but what about the faucet handles or the restroom door handles...what about anything and everything in public that people can touch? Lots of people get itchy noses and rub them or worse with their fingers. Children are not usually very conscious of washing their hands frequently. Is your nose, just now, starting to get itchy? Don't you feel like rubbing it to stop the itch?

So, the health care worker will undoubtedly dismiss patients just because they have not been in W. Africa nor have known, or knowingly come in contact with, someone who has been in W. Africa. Maybe someone has just flown in from some other country...like Spain....or France...and think they are safe because it wasn't W. Africa. But someone from W. Africa can fly to Spain or France, contaminate someone else who flies to the US.

This might be a bit off topic, but this ebola story is sucking up too much attention that could be better spent elsewhere. I'd like to suggest some topics that bother me much more and are much more likely to affect all of our lives in the months and years ahead.

1) The first is "Civil Forfeiture Laws" and how out of hand they are. Here is an interesting piece by John Oliver and Forbes Magazine that sum up what is taking place right now all across the country right under our noses. I'd suggest everyone check this out because you might learn about it the hard way after you, or someone you care about, becomes another victim. At the rate this problem is getting out of hand, that event is only a matter of time.

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/how-cops-take-millions-from-motorists-not-charged-with-crimes-215603712.html

2) The second is "Walmart". As you know, walmart is responsible for running many local businesses out of business. It is also responsible for overburdening our social safety net and influencing our politicians. Did you also know that it is destroying our high end businesses as well. Walmart is a serious contributor to our unemployment problem and in this article which interviews former managers from companies that did business with Walmart in the past, their technique of destroying their own supply base is exposed for all to see. Most provocative reading indeed. The gist of the article is that "we are shopping our way straight to the unemployment line." This is another issue that must be dealt with in a timely fashion to save what is left or our economy.

http://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know

DAnneMarc: I read that article and watched the video...yee gads!! That is much worse than I thought...now I don't even want to drive my car anywhere. But, they can still steal my house while I'm sitting in it, couldn't they? Margarita machines? I guess if the cops don't get their quota of actual traffic violations...they stop people anyway and confiscate their cash.

They are obviously forcing people to not carry cash...to rely on credit cards. But then every time you use your credit card they have a record of every single thing you buy...and that is no bodies business....which is why I usually always pay cash for darn near everything. They are also forcing people to financing buying new cars instead of using cash. Forcing people to have to pay interest rates. Man, this country is really starting to suck...big time! Crooked cops, crooked government, crooked judges, crooked lawyers.

By the way, I hear there is yet another person with Ebola symptoms being quarantined in a hospital in Dallas...one of the 3 deputy sheriffs who first went to Duncan's home. They went unprotected and now one has the symptoms.

Just don't get caught trying to take money out of the country. Some Central American had come to the US a number of years ago to earn enough money to ...I think it was to start a small restaurant back in his home country. He had slaved away for years and finally took the plunge. He tried to take his savings back over the border but was caught. It was something like $50,000 I think. The authorities confiscated the money and sent the guy back home without the money. Welcome to Amerika! Land of illusions of freedom and democracy and the illusion that if you work really hard and be very frugal you too can make it. Well, some might but many don't. Many just get it stolen from them by the people that are suppose to protect us from theft. I'm not very confident that even our saving accounts are safe from these criminals...if not the hackers...then the bankers or the cops.

Palindromedary ~ Thanks for those links. This is a really eye opening story. If you ask me, the people who wrote this law need to be brought up on criminal charges. Not only did they legalize stealing, they also blatantly violated the Constitution when they did it. The law makers are the ones who should stand trial for this. Then, the state should be held responsible for paying back every dime taken where a crime wasn't charged and proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Anything less is nothing less than legalized crime; or, organized crime at the highest level.

I learned today that, in Indianapolis, there have been 27 police vehicles stolen or broken into so far this year. Perhaps someone has figured out that turnabout is fair play.