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Spreading fear is a hobby for some people. Every single story on Ebola seems to be taken over by people who are: a) ignorant of virology b) enamoured of a mul
by tjradcliffe 12y ago
Spreading fear is a hobby for some people. Every single story on Ebola seems to be taken over by people who are:
a) ignorant of virology
b) enamoured of a multiply-debunked case "they've heard" that "might have" involved "airborne" transmission despite the massive unlikeliness of that
c) deeply, deeply fearful about the "possibility of Ebola becoming airborne"
and
d) have never once anywhere posted anything wittering fearfully about influenza becoming a deadly pandemic, which is so many orders of magnitude more likely it isn't funny.
The degree of cognitive failure exhibited by these fearful posters is saddening. There is no obvious reason for them posting their fears and disinformation.
- danieltillett 12y agoI am far less concerned about fear being spread than ignorant “solutions” being spread. Things like proposing that closing the borders to people from west Africa will solve everything, that it is somehow's gods way of dealing with “overcrowding” and Ebola will only happen to “those people", etc. There is a real risk that we in the west will go into isolation mode and not do anything.