EEEEEK!

[kpete]

[bigwillq]

1. Pitbulls made the list!!111

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3. it didn't specify. until we get clarity, i'm avoiding basset hounds.

[bigwillq]

8. It says Dog Attacks.

Translation: Pitbulls. We know Pitbulls are the only dogs that attack. The DU told me so.

[G_j]

9. along with chiwawas

[bigwillq]

11. Awww.

Love Chihuahuas. I have one.

Sweetest thing you'll ever meet, but some can be vicious.

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16. yeah, i've known a few of those. the dog owners in my neighborhood growing up were nasty people.

we were in a pretty nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood with rather little crime, yet almost all of them had the "dogs are for protection" attitude.

chihuahuas nip; they're not as likely to tear your ass cheek of (as one doberman did to the paperboy) or maul your arm (as a german shepherd did to a neighborhood kid) but they can still draw blood, and they did.

[RebelOne]

23. I have a Chihuahua. She is adorable and sweet with me.

But let a stranger come into the house and she changes into a miniature pit bull. She is one of those that can be vicious.

[valerief]

49. How many chihuahuas have killed people over the past decade? I'd guess NONE. nt

[tclambert]

33. They'll nibble you to death.

It may take a week, but you can tell they want to.

[hollysmom]

10. hey! I was cornered by a pack of street roaming beagles once, they are small, but it is not like

you can step on them like a hoard of cockroaches. Not to mention an angry beagle ran in my back yard once and I had my hands full and had to avoid it. sheesh. Dogs, not pit bulls. I figure my next dog will be a beagle for protection!

[unblock]

2. personally, i think we should ban water.

ok, kidding. but i understand why people aren't as fearful of the flu, i mean, it sounds like it's in the past tense, so we no longer have to worry.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Flee!

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5. fly!

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Flow!

Flum!

I smell the blood of a really dumb pun!

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14. flum!

"I smell the blood of a really dumb pun!"

no no no! plun!

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Quit trying to plun

der my thunder.

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18. thlunder!

some people never clatch on!

[Jackpine Radical]

40. Blunder.

[longship]

44. DUzy sub thread! nt

[tclambert]

34. Dihydrogen monoxide is found in all cancerous tumors, and did cause the sinking of the Titanic.

It's deadly if you breathe in enough of it, and it factors into every single shark attack.

[DeadEyeDyck]

6. I feel better now. You are quoting a cartoon from the Washington post.

Now you can see how AIDS got its chance to evolve.

[freedom fighter jh]

21. Exactly

Ebola is still rare, but it has the potential to spread and increase exponentially at a high rate.

[ZombieHorde]

45. If Ebola starts killing 20,000 people every single day,

it will be almost as bad as hunger.

[hifiguy]

7. Life is terminal.

No one gets out alive.

[TRoN33]

48. That is the most comprehensive comment I've seen for long time.

Yet... The rich people are desperate to find the immorality via nanotechnology. Koch bros are investing heavily into universities who are actively researching the nanotechnology, of course!

[kestrel91316]

13. Ok, let's ignore it. Let's ignore all infectious diseases with high mortality rates.

Let's mock people's efforts to spread awareness and provide reliable information to counter the RW propaganda machine.

You, too, kpete?? REALLY??

Shame on you.

[Voice for Peace]

20. That's missing the point; it is not mocking anyone except the fearmongerers.

[kestrel91316]

27. And those of us who are trying to provide reliable information and correct misinformation and

use our education and expertise to be part of the solution and NOT part of the problem are ALSO being mocked and called fearmongers. Right here on DU.

[Voice for Peace]

32. I can't respond to that, because I haven't seen fearmongering here.

There's a fine line between helping people be informed,
and helping people be terrified. That kind of fear is not
helpful, it paralyzes and blocks clarity.

Any humor associated with Ebola has been for that purpose,
ie to dispel irrational fear. Not to make light of it, nor
ridicule people for disseminating useful information.

If you are feeling frustrated, maybe you are trying too
hard to make people be more alarmed. On DU I think
most everyone is well-informed about the situation.
Informed enough that it is scary all by itself, without
any additional fear-inducing input. If you have some
information that's not available elsewhere, that's helpful.

I've got a daughter who just came back from Africa.
It's easy to become scared. It's important not to
stay scared.

[upaloopa]

15. I don't see zombies on the list. Are they

Trying to tell us Ebola is a greater threat than an attack by a bunch of zombies?

[humbled_opinion]

19. LOL I had someone at my job

say that ebola victims are going to start biting people to spread the disease...

[Little Star]

22. Toon is true for now. Hope we keep it that way.

[Wait Wut]

24. One thing that I noticed...

...all of these things still have, to this day, smart people who know their shit working to make things safer.

Just like there are smart people who know their shit working around the clock, missing their families, not sleeping, eating out of vending machines...trying to find a cure or prevention for Ebola.

Am I happy about the thousands that have died and will die? Nope. Am I skipping through the streets without a care in the world? Nope. But, I'm going to remain optimistic that those smart people are doing their damnedest to figure this out and will, at the very least, make it less of a global threat.

[LawDeeDah]

26. What does that last high bar say? People dying from playing Diablo?

[Chellee]

36. Probably Diabetes

nt

[truedelphi]

28. Meanwhile both hemachromatosis and hepatitis are under-tested for.

Hemachromatosis only affects one in every two hundred people, but it is genetic - meaning that among those who are afflicted with the syndrome, both they and quite a few of the family members suffer from many terrible situations for their lifetimes, until they die early on from heart attacks. (If your family has had several members die of heart attacks before age forty, or if women in the family have early onset of menopause as early as twenty five or so, it might be worth looking into.) The suffering is needless, as simply donating blood enables the person to be affliction -free!

Rarely tested for. And doctors often miss it. My mother-in-law lost four of five of her brothers and not until the fifth brother started exhibiting some symptoms did it finally come to the family's attention.

Hepatitis is at epidemic proportions, and only in the last few years have there been efforts to screen for it, whenever anyone claims to feel run down etc.

[florida08]

29. A few left out

Guns have been killing a lot of innocent lately. Loud music, skittles..walking down the street

[jtuck004]

30. Uh, who made this shit up? We lose about 12-20 people a year to dog attacks, nearly 40,000 driving.

About 4 from fireworks, Far and away more with slips, falls, drowning, etc. CDC data as well as others is quite clear.

The major point is true enough, it would seem, without mistakenly adding in other things from the person's existing bias. Makes the rest of it seem less reliable.

A great example of the misuse of data, however. The bars are completely out of scale, except for the scale of the agenda of the cartoonist.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. "Browning"? We're likely to be killed by a Victorian poet ?

Oh, "drowning" ... never mind.

[scarletwoman]

35. What you *really* don't want is a Yeats infection.

However, for drowning, see Percy Bysshe Shelley.

[LawDeeDah]

37. :O

[BrotherIvan]

43. Double DUzy

[liberalla]

38. Where's GUN violence?

If you fear for your life, you should worry more about guns than ebola.

Domestic violence may include use of guns, but 'gun violence' covers much more than just domestic violence.

[Loge23]

39. If you are an African-American male...

...you would add "Police" to the chart.

[scarystuffyo]

41. Post the same chart up a year from now

[Marie Marie]

42. Hey! Dick Cheney didn't make the list??

If that ghoul was still in power, he would at least be rivaling Bee Stings.

[blkmusclmachine]

46. The GOP is the most likely thing to cause the premature death of an average American citizen.

[hedgehog]

47. The Winnuh!

[Liberal_in_LA]

50. kick

[JoePhilly]

51. PEANUTS!!!! BEARS!!!

[valerief]

52. What's more likely to kill a 30 year old? Probably not the flu or pneumonia.

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age-and-gender

I wonder where ebola will fit in here in 3 years. I wonder what the rank for HIV/AIDS was in 1983.

1) Poisoning
2) Suicide
3) Road accident
4) Homicide
5) Other injuries
...
10) HIV/AIDS
...
14) Flu/pneumonia
15) Drownings
...
23) Drug use
24) Falls
...
28) Alcohol
29) Fires

[Laffy Kat]

54. Poisoning? Seriously? nt

[valerief]

55. I know. I can't understand what this represents. nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

53. This is a deeply misleading diagram. It doesn't make clear that it's not to scale. N.T.

[BlindTiresias]

56. Stupid logic

Only one of those is contagious (influenza).