Imagine if Ebola had hit our shores again instead of COVID?
- Thread starter Cuddles
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Ebola kills a high percentage of its hosts. It’s R0 is only 1.5 and it is normally spread by body fluid contact.
This combination makes it much less likely to become a global pandemic that cannot be controlled than COVID-19.
This combination makes it much less likely to become a global pandemic that cannot be controlled than COVID-19.
It does not live in the wild in the U.S either as far as we know. Unlike Africa where they still get a case pop up here and there from year to year. Usually from eating bush meat. Monkeys and bats there continue to carry it even when it is not circulating among the homosapiens.
Before everyone got more savvy about the disease, a lot of ebola spread by villagers washing and preparing the bodies of others who had died from it. If you avoid that heavy duty kind of fluid contact from excrement and blood it helps bigtime. Ebola causes major bleeding from the nose and gums and eyes and intestines so cleaning the body of a deceased is very risky.
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No, imagine instead if BSE or Rabies became as contagious, and in the same manner, as COVID or the Flu. THEN we are fucked. This thing is nothing compared to something like that.
Imagine if Liberalism was contagious. Now that would really suck big time!
The outcome will largely be dependent on who is president.Thankfully it wont be Trump.
Not really but nice try there Tony.
Maybe it is contagious. A lot of the kids who are just starting to vote like the ideas of the liberals. They even like the ideas of that nut AOC. Democratic Socialism. Wow are they stupid. They shouldn't even be allowed to vote.
Just travel along the east or west coast, it spreads everywhere, specially in the school systems.
That's correct. I forgot about the horrors of the US coasts. A bad disease.