I have a suggestion for all the faux friends who are afraid of EBOLA

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4. The CDC estimates that only 2.1% of respiratory and circulatory disease related deaths are from flu

Of those, 90% are of people over the age of 65.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm

Ebola is killing at about a 50% rate and it's killing across all age groups.

The reason that, so far, only a few in this country have it is because the people who are sick have all been identified and it's been possible to identify and monitor the people with whom they've had contact. If the situation changes and you have unidentified people carrying the disease, it's a different ballgame. Once that happens, the disease becomes orders of magnitude more difficult to manage especially if they happen to be using mass transit or live in a densely populated area. People who haven't been identified as potential carriers would be unlikely to seek medical attention until they were very sick and at that point, they would be highly contagious. It's likely that by then they would have infected other people who also wouldn't know they'd been infected until they became very sick. That scenario cannot be ruled out and it's why isolating people who have been in West Africa treating Ebola patients is essential until the incubation period is past.

Your post smacks of Alfred E. Neuman and I'll stand by mine.