WHO: Ebola outbreak in West Africa over

[Warpoet]

http://time.com/4179412/ebola-outbreak-over/

The two-year Ebola outbreak in West Africa is expected to be declared over by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday.

On Jan 14, the outbreak in Liberia will officially be over after 42 consecutive days of no reported cases, and after the people most recently infected test negative for the Ebola virus. Guinea and Sierra Leone reached similar milestones in the past few months.

Curious, as I recall tons of people, including, IIRC, some on this very board, losing their shit and acting as though we were all going to die. Yet despite a 24-hour news cycle of relentless fearmongering, the whole thing played out basically exactly as experts expected it would. But hey, it's not like people tend to irrationally overreact to relatively minor threats, right? Right?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

May be a good time to remember the 14,938 Americans who died because Obama brought over the sick people and the disease spread.

Only if he had heeded the warnings of the Republicans in Congress, maybe those lives would not have been lost.

 

[SimpleDon]

May be a good time to remember the 14,938 Americans who died because Obama brought over the sick people and the disease spread.

Only if he had heeded the warnings of the Republicans in Congress, maybe those lives would not have been lost.

Forget? They remember their fake facts as if they happened just yesterday.

 

[thebeave]

So, does that mean I can remove the plastic sheeting and duct tape from around my house now?

 

[funinspace]

I think they moved on to the massive ISIS invasion currently coming into Amerika...

 

[GenesisNemesis]

So, does that mean I can remove the plastic sheeting and duct tape from around my house now?

No.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I think they moved on to the massive ISIS invasion currently coming into Amerika...

Ooh, imagine if ISIS terrorists infected themselves with Ebola and ran around biting everyone. People spike be like "Hey, zombie invasion" but then it would just be a bunch of terrorists giving people Ebola. They kill off a bunch of folks and really disappoint all the hard core nerds in the crowd.

 

[4321lynx]

I think they moved on to the massive ISIS invasion currently coming into Amerika...

Ooh, imagine if ISIS terrorists infected themselves with Ebola and ran around biting everyone. People spike be like "Hey, zombie invasion" but then it would just be a bunch of terrorists giving people Ebola. They kill off a bunch of folks and really disappoint all the hard core nerds in the crowd.

Don't give them ideas.

Anyway, there's a new case with many contacts in Sierra Leone.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Anyway, there's a new case with many contacts in Sierra Leone.

I don't want to say that it's time to panic, but it's clearly time to panic. We're all going to be dead by the end of the month.

 

[funinspace]

Anyway, there's a new case with many contacts in Sierra Leone.

I don't want to say that it's time to panic, but it's clearly time to panic. We're all going to be dead by the end of the month.

Not I. We will plastic rap the house, and I've got Bakker's Apocalypse Chow buckets to live off If the crap doesn't kill me first...

 

[dismal]

Anyway, there's a new case with many contacts in Sierra Leone.

I don't want to say that it's time to panic, but it's clearly time to panic. We're all going to be dead by the end of the month.

Yes, the new outbreak coming so soon after the last outbreak ended is a bad sign.

We barely got 4 sarcastic posts in between the outbreaks.