Posted by baseball55 on October 14, 2014, at 19:43:25
In reply to Re: Ebola vs. Suicide--Worldwide, posted by Phil on October 14, 2014, at 19:13:01
I saw an article in the NYT that said ebola was the worst epidemic in the modern world. The influenza epidemic of the 1920 killed 50m people. Polio killed or maimed millions. Like you say, suicide, AIDs, kill millions today. Not to mention malaria, cholera, thyroid fever. Then there are the hundreds of millions of children in India alone who are malnourished and fail to thrive.
I turn off the radio when ebola comes on (which is all the time) and don't read the papers about ebola. It's just hysteria. Craziness.
I feel like the media latches on to these stories and then beats them to death. Like the airplane lost in Malaysia -went on for weeks and weeks.
There are bigger problems in the world.
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