Have they frightened you enough yet?

[malaise]

This is absolute madness

[In_The_Wind]

1. Not yet.

I'm still leaving my home as usual.

[Beaverhausen]

2. Fuck no

I'm more afraid driving the LA freeways.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. I'm not scared....but then I am a realist!

[arcane1]

4. I'm becoming increasingly more frightened of the extent of our collective gullibility.

[malaise]

9. +1,000

I always ask the question what are they really up to while they are trying to distract us.

[woo me with science]

13. +1000

[Chimeradog]

15. agree

I am done with media fear and smear b.s.

Sux to be them. After so many lies and fakery, I will spend my time reading and researching, and not letting my 7 year old watch the shills/talking heads of lame US media.

What garbage it is.

[cwydro]

19. Yes,

you just summed it up for me.

[Warpy]

5. It is.

It's a horrifying disease that the most advanced protective gear doesn't protect health care workers 100% against.

It has me glad I'm retired because it's scarier than a lot of the stuff I had to deal with, although not quite as scary as hantavirus was before it was identified and transmission methods known.

It's still a fragile virus that isn't easy to catch unless you're sleeping with or taking care of someone in the end stages. Sunlight and Clorox still kill it off. People haven't caught it even sitting next to an extremely ill person on an airplane.

Hospitals are going to have to pony up for hazmat suits and pay during quarantine. They're not going to like that one bit. They might also shell out a hundred grand for a "Little Moe," something that will decontaminate rooms contaminated with all sorts of bugs.

It's still not nearly as serious as a severe flu epidemic is, not at this point.

[goldent]

6. There is a lot of information coming out.

I think I'm frightened just enough.

[Initech]

7. This clip accurately sums up media hysteria during an election year:

[PAProgressive28]

8. If...

people on the plane with her test positive, yes.

the people Duncan had come into contact with, especially the schoolkids, had tested positive, yes. (Which they didn't)

[Kaleva]

10. The people who are posting numerous threads here at DU about Ebola? No.

Your OP reminded me of the auto-trash by keyword feature here and I think I'll use it for the first time.

Okay, opened up another tab and auto-trashed the words "ebola", "CDC". and "nurse". Checked out the 1st page in GD and it's cleaned up pretty well.

[Inkfreak]

20. That's not a bad idea.

Ive never trashed any words before. But perusing through the greatest threads, I'm blown away by the amount of threads discussing it. I don't have issue with at all, just not particularly interested. I could do with the quick update I see on the tv at the gym, lol. More than enough.

[woo me with science]

11. I"m reccing this in a very general sense.

I've lost track of everything I'm supposed to be afraid of, from Isis terrorists under the bed to investigative journalists who talk to whistleblowers and protect their sources.


I'll tell you what I AM afraid of: the future for 99 percent of us under corporate rule and an increasingly fascistic, authoritarian, propaganda-soaked and corporate-perverted parody of a democratic nation.

That being said, and given that several people in the thread have already guessed that you were referencing the breathless "All-Ebola-All-the-Time" corporate news cycle we're currently being fed, I will add my caveat that this thread made an excellent point:

Dickensian US working conditions almost guarantee Ebola catastrophe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025659248

[haikugal]

14. +1

[liberal_at_heart]

22. I think it is really funny that the enterovirus got left out of the mix.

Are we not supposed to be terrified of it as well? Aren't we suppose to be yanking our kids out of school and putting them in a bubble where they belong?

[winter is coming]

12. Rachel Maddow is covering Ebola now in a very factual and matter-of-fact way.

[cwydro]

17. She did a great job in that show.

I am becoming alarmed on a low level however, because of the response (or lack thereof) of the authorities.

[ecstatic]

23. Yeah, but her questions about Pham's condition

kind of worried me a little. She suggested that Pham might be too sick to transfer to Emory, and noted that Duncan's condition had been upgraded the day before he died. I really hope she's wrong.

[FLPanhandle]

16. They haven't even managed to work me up to "concerned" yet.

I know their game and how they make money scaring people.

[cwydro]

18. Someone should do one of those thermometer thingies showing our alarm from low to high.

I would say yesterday I was at very low. Today, I'm reaching the lowest rung of concerned.

But still.

Concerned.

[liberal_at_heart]

21. hell no.