WHO worried about 'scale and speed' of Ebola outbreak as death toll reaches 131
Posted by TheExpressUS@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 193 comments
Posted by TheExpressUS@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 193 comments
DruidicMagic@reddit
Hope like hell that Ebola never goes airborne because if it does humanity is utterly fucked.
escfantasy@reddit
Would staying indoors not work?
WombeI@reddit
Did it work with Covid? Or was Covid just a flu and it was just not dangerous enough for people to really stay home/indoors?
How is this gonna work on a large scale and for a longer period of time? How are you gonna get food, healthcare? Older or sick people get help?
escfantasy@reddit
Yeah, it really did.
ommnian@reddit
Not really. Millions still died. People HAVE to go to work. Doctors, nurses, first responders, etc. All the support staff for them - cafeteria workers, janitors, etc.
Everyone has to eat. Maybe YOU can stay inside and have all your food, etc delivered... But, someone is out shopping for you. Someone is delivering for you. Someone is keeping gas stations, grocery stores, etc open... And all the warehouses, delivery drivers, etc they, in turn, rely on.
Maybe you can 'just stay inside'. But, most people, cannot.
BeardedGlass@reddit
Yeah. Several relatives of mine died during the peak of the global pandemic. Even close family members.
It caused death, all over the world.
I still remember the mass graves and the overflowing morgues. The hallways of hospitals with a deluge of infected people who can't breathe anymore.
Too many people got sick too fast and at the same time.
escfantasy@reddit
As it happens, I’m a key worker. That wasn’t the question above though. You really need to stop making assumptions about people. No wonder all you Americans keep saying about each other that you’re all assholes.
RamonaLittle@reddit
You mean . . . now? If you're saying that people took precautions in 2020, that's great. But what are people doing now? Because of course covid is still spreading; still sickening, disabling, and killing people (there have been far more deaths "after the pandemic" -- by any definition -- that "during the pandemic"); and vulnerable and compassionate people are still being isolated, traumatized and not even allowed to safely get healthcare. Of the people you named (mayor, city council, health service employees) -- are any of them wearing a mask in public places or taking other precautions? Or did they decide they'd rather endanger themselves and others, including their own families?
escfantasy@reddit
Yes, everyone wears masks here and we are all isolating when we can. Like you say, covid is here forever, so the pandemic is now our way of life.
RamonaLittle@reddit
Wow! But honestly I find it hard to believe. I don't recall seeing any politician anywhere in a mask for years. Where is this amazing place? (And you might want to share it on /r/Masks4All too, because I've seen many posts/comments from people saying they'd love to move to a place where masks/precautions are more common.)
abrit_abroad@reddit
Andy Burnham?!
escfantasy@reddit
The King in the North
im_dancing_barefoot@reddit
I highly doubt everyone is going to do that again
DruidicMagic@reddit
They will when their family, friends and co-workers start bleeding out of their eyes.
im_dancing_barefoot@reddit
Idk I can see certain red hats screaming about their right to bleed out their eyes
Middle-Bed-1883@reddit
It is their god given right to bleed out of whatever orifice they desire, gawddamnit
ideknem0ar@reddit
I'll never forget the lady driving to or from church, telling the reporter that Covid couldn't hurt her because she is bathed in the blood of Jesus. Ass blood will be Jesus blood too, I'm sure.
NearABE@reddit
They can storm the capital and deposit running bloody infected stool samples in the offices now.
NearABE@reddit
Matches the hat.
_Cromwell_@reddit
You have a point. The most horrible parts of covid were really hidden behind the scenes. When you did see really sick people in public it would just people hacking up their lungs which is something you see all the time anyway with all types of diseases.
Ain't no one used to seeing somebody collapse in the middle of Kroger bleeding out of their orifices.
chefkoolaid@reddit
Maybe not at your kroger
lm-hmk@reddit
Isn’t there a murder Kroger in Atlanta?
Atomsq@reddit
That seems more of a Walmart thing
michaltee@reddit
Right winger morons will still find a way to pretend it’s not real. They did it with COVID when so many were dying. Nationalism is more important than self-preservation.
maddprof@reddit
Covid pandemic rapidly turned me from a "I always want to live in big cities with all the convenience and opportunities for things to do" to a "yah, I think I'm going to move as far outside of any major city as I can and just embrace the rural life".
Radiomaster138@reddit
Suddenly air travel has gone up significantly…
DruidicMagic@reddit
How long can you stay indoors before the pandemic burns itself out?
(knowing full well that half your neighbors wouldn't take a vaccine or wear a mask)
escfantasy@reddit
Probably at least a month. Also, almost my whole street wore masks and got the vaccine during covid—not everyone’s neighbours are the same.
ommnian@reddit
There's no vaccine for ebola.
exoenigma@reddit
There is, but it's for the Zaire strain, not the Bundibugyo strain which is the one that's currently spreading. There was an experimental rollout of a vaccine for the Sudan strain during an outbreak in Uganda last year (which showed promising results during clinical trials) so hopefully a vaccine for Bundibugyo can be developed and deployed quickly.
GalaxyPatio@reddit
Also you can get it from dead bodies
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
The Black Death has entered the chat...
NearABE@reddit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_vaccine
Merck inc is selling vials of something with that label. It has been approved since 2019.
poorly_timed_leg0las@reddit
I'd barrage my doors and get some positive pressure going
Creasentfool@reddit
how would you go about that? Genuinely Curious
poorly_timed_leg0las@reddit
No idea probably a carbon filter like a grow house
Jeveran@reddit
And UV lighting inside to kill the virus on surfaces.
Bored_Acolyte_44@reddit
As someone who is six years in isolation at this point and counting I will let you know when we finally get a pan vaccine for covid.
You have no idea how insane the world looks from my vantage point.
RandomBoomer@reddit
We have a fully-stocked pantry that could probably us (my wife and I) for 4-5 months. It would be pretty grim by the last month or so, but we wouldn't starve.
I'm more concerned about my wife's ADHD. Staying in the house for that long would be torture for her.
horridbloke@reddit
We'd have to wait until Dustin Hoffman made an antiserum.
FrankenGretchen@reddit
Is Will Smith back in the game?
ommnian@reddit
The hot zone will forever remain the most terrifying book I have ever read.
Successful-Try-8506@reddit
Stephen King agrees with you.
DaisyHotCakes@reddit
Dude when Covid was just breaking out I read the Stand again and man he really nailed people’s reactions to an outbreak of a deadly virus.
goldmund22@reddit
I also read the Stand around march or April 2020, apparently potentially living through something like it wasn't enough!
mooky1977@reddit
Captain Trips on steroids wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but here we are :D
BolotaJT@reddit
I had that book when I was a teenager. I’m 29. Still remember.
Toastburrito@reddit
That is such a good book!
Accomplished_Bus2169@reddit
Loved that book
FeFiFoMums@reddit
The airplane scene at the beginning of that book lives rent free in my head. Ebola is horrifying.
cryptedsky@reddit
The one with the paragraph that basically says: through the bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea, the parasite was desperately trying to find another host
? Real life alien shit
AnOnlineHandle@reddit
Children of Ruin was not a great book compared to its predecessor, but the intelligent parasite 'villain' was probably the most terrifying antagonist of any book I've ever read.
mamamackmusic@reddit
I thought Children of Ruin was pretty on par with Children of Time...definitely a lot more horrifying overall, even if the characters weren't as strong. I thought both were excellent, but I couldn't even finish Children of Memory.
festoon_the_dragoon@reddit
Children of Time was so insanely good that it's really hard to follow up with something just as strong. But yeah, that other life form in the second book was really interesting.
TheIronicMullet@reddit
We're going on an adventure.
KlicknKlack@reddit
0_0
Miguel-odon@reddit
Try reading Biohazard, by Ken Alibek.
DaisyHotCakes@reddit
That’s a good one too. I recall it being a bit scarier than the Hot Zone but I read it decades ago so can’t remember that much about the plot.
Miguel-odon@reddit
Nonfiction. Former Russian bioweapons scientist talks about the things they developed, accidents, leaks, concealing it from Americans.
TheGisbon@reddit
Hey same, we were on that flight together I think about that literally all the time
izzidora@reddit
That scene 😭😭😭
Bigd1979666@reddit
That book is good but the author embellished the truth quite a bit .
Reasonable-Teach7155@reddit
That book is responsible for the single worst LSD experience I've ever had. Had been out all night, came home still tripping and said fuck it I'll read for a bit. Got about 3 pages in before the words crawled off the page and infected me w Marburg. Thought I was a goner for sure.
SelectionBroad931@reddit
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story?
Lady_Litreeo@reddit
The author of Spillover, a book all about zoonotic disease history and research, called The Hot Zone utter garbage that exaggerated the hell out of what’s already a terrible virus. Just fyi. People generally don’t fountain blood or anything wacky like that.
NearABE@reddit
“Fountain” no. Hemorrhagic fevers do make people leak blood.
DaisyHotCakes@reddit
From everywhere too. The bleeding from the eyes is pretty horrific.
glasshomonculous@reddit
This is terribly off topic, but this is the second time ever I’ve seen “fountain” used as a verb and in both cases it’s been referencing Ebola.
NB: I’m aware fountain is a perfectly good verb, I just genuinely never see/hear it used!
Also I’m in the UK if that makes a difference
DruidicMagic@reddit
The Andromeda Strain did it for me.
NarrMaster@reddit
Just get addicted to Sterno, bro, you'll be fine.
Or a colicky baby, idk.
xenobit_pendragon@reddit
That…wasn’t Ebola.
filmguy36@reddit
Completely agree. That book started me in a viral/biological info hobby. I blew through that book in one day. Completely riveting
AlcibiadesTheCat@reddit
Seventh grade, we read that.
kaoc02@reddit
I am more scared of the possibilty of an longer incubation period while contagious
HakaishinChampa@reddit
Doesn't longer incubation make a virus weaker or am I wrong
dashingsauce@reddit
So hanta
Radiomaster138@reddit
Simpsons movie had a dome.
liatrisinbloom@reddit
Super weird story, but one of the "engagement" groups at my workplace hosted a movie day recently and it was for a 2002 movie named Contagion. Not the one you're thinking of. There is a mention of it on Wikipedia but no actual Wikipedia article for the movie itself. In this "Contagion", the president is attacked by bioterrorists who manage to infect him with Ebola and will only give him antisera if he gives in to their demands. The group had to end on a cliffhanger just as the doctor realizes "It's airborne!"
Hollirc@reddit
I mean, realistically, if most of Africa ever starts utilizing Western medicine in a large way… We are fucked.
After the reason, there has not been a major Ebola pandemic is because most cases are out in the bush being treated by tribal medicine. Not taking that sick person all the way into a big city where they come in contact with untold amounts of people.in
Radiomaster138@reddit
Aren’t we already?
Tough-Elk@reddit
“The U.S. completed its official withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), eliminating funding for global health initiatives, pandemic preparedness, and disease eradication.” Just in time … s/
Barnacle_B0b@reddit
Republicans fucking it up for everyone else on Earth per usual.
Bluest_waters@reddit
Excellent article in the Atlantic. Basically explains why this outbreak is scarier than others because we simply don't have the resources dedicated to fight it right now
https://archive.is/20260519161149/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/05/ebola-outbreak/687216/#selection-703.0-703.886
AnOnlineHandle@reddit
Again. :/
nullzeroerror@reddit
I don’t even care anymore
Spunge14@reddit
You'll care when you're blasting bloody shit from every orifice
kaleidoscope_pie@reddit
Yep, I'm resolved to the shittines of my fellow human beings in the event of something like this happening again. Next pandemic or epidemic, if I'm getting sick and possibly falling off the perch....I'm going to hang out with the cookers. You don't want to protect others? Here, have some of this then.
Fluid-Pin6052@reddit
I got banned for saying something close to this. I did everything to protect others and got nothing but negatives on from it. I got called names and physically assaulted for helping others. No longer care.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
It is deeply alarming to see people treating past trauma or burnout as a valid justification for embracing malicious intent toward others.
The idea that being hurt by a broken system or cruel individuals gives someone a blank check to act out that exact same cruelty is a massive ethical failure.
Millions of people experienced profound suffering, exhaustion, and isolation over the last few years without deciding that the rest of humanity deserves to suffer agonizing deaths as a result.
Publicly bragging about abandoning basic empathy isn't the radical or tough stance people think it is.
It’s just total capitulation to the worst elements of the environment that hurt them in the first place.
Trading solidarity for spite is an absolute surrender. It's failure.
StarStruck3@reddit
I can also see where they're coming from, though. I lived through people threatening to shoot me and my coworkers for enforcing masks at my store during covid. Every day. Multiple times a day. People actually pulled their guns out on more than one occasion. It got so bad that I started conceal carrying my own weapon at work because I feared for my safety. I'm not going through that shit again.
kaleidoscope_pie@reddit
Exactly. I'm a person with a disability who, despite my fear of getting sick and dying and fear of my loved ones (some who are also vulnerable) getting sick and dying, pushed relentlessly in my area to get a vaccine hub up and running. The state department of health finally saw reason and we got it open for everyone who wanted to get a vaccine. I was now local enemy number 1 for anti vaccination and conspiracy theorists in my area for what I helped do. Just to give people the option to protect themselves and protect others during a global pandemic. These cookers stalked me, doxxed me, sent death threats to my family and myself regularly and were coughing in my face while I was in my power wheelchair when they saw me in public. They're still popping up to harass me even now. So sorry for being well beyond my limit to care about people like these guys at the cusp of another possible similar outbreak. I'm only interested in showing them what they showed me during my time of vulnerability and concern for others. I hope everyone else gets through it though.
Fluid-Pin6052@reddit
I wouldn’t consider it malice per-say, I just don’t care. A child who didn’t get a say? I’ll care.
A old person who voted republican all their life no longer gets food stamps and go homeless? 🤷♀️
I used to say give empathy to people who don’t deserve it but I no longer care.
They didn’t vote or care to help me, someone who is working poor and is now working poorer. So I no longer care about them. I’ll help the truly innocent.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
That is hierarchical.
You are not the judge, jury and executioner of humanity.
You are very similar to that which you criticize.
The old person who voted Republican their whole life. Did they have an education that served well enough in the '50s as a working class child to adequate transverse state-backed psychological manipulation?
Were they a victim of propaganda and psychological warfare from the very beginning?
Were they exposed to toxins, poisons, chemicals from the state and corporate class that damaged their facilities?
You explained yourself, so this is not an insult- you say it yourself. You are only really concerned about yourself.
"Didn't care to help ME." This is the reason why you are so similar to what you criticize.
Fluid-Pin6052@reddit
I never said I was but those are all excuses. I grew up with parents who were under privileged country hicks who didn’t get a good education and who pulled themselves up from the boot straps but who had empathy. The people that didn’t were the people they left behind.
I care for my fellow man but in America they have never cared their fellow man.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
No, those aren't excuses. Those are the material conditions.
Once again you are focused on yourself.
You're even using pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, the same propaganda that conservatives use to justify why some people deserve to die.
That last sentence is very ironic.
HeathenAF@reddit
Thats a whole lot of words for no longer caring
Known_Leek8997@reddit
You got banned from r/collapse?
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EchoesOfEleos@reddit
This is weird.
This is not normal or okay. And you are no different from the worst people you criticize.
MariaValkyrie@reddit
Treat it with the legitimate danger that it warrants or you get this, no exceptions.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
Dude.
MariaValkyrie@reddit
Okay then, treat it like the common cold and see where that gets you.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
When did I suggest I was going to do that?
That I don't take Ebola seriously? Especially this strain.
I didn't. That was just tribalism projecting dehumanization onto whomever you wished.
Smh. Dude.
SpikyCactusJuice@reddit
This is besides the point of the post, but I loved your phrase there, “falling off the perch”. I’ve never heard it, but I knew exactly what you meant haha.
Substantial-Spare501@reddit
Yum, tasty nihilism.
TheBroWhoLifts@reddit
Same. Thank you for saying this. I just don't care anymore. Feels good to just say it.
Shadow1787@reddit
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BlueGumShoe@reddit
Well, I'm usually a doomer about this stuff especially with the WHO weakened because of my country's stupidity, but I really don't think we are at panic level yet. This isn't exactly like Covid. Covid-19 was a surprise even though coronaviruses themselves have been studied for a long time. The current Ebola variant is rarer but it is known.
But the more important fact is Ebola viruses do not spread like SARS. You're not going to get it from someone coughing on the other side of the room like with Covid. And, incubation in Ebola works differently. People with covid were flying around without symptoms spreading it everywhere. When people have Ebola, my understanding is they are not contagious during incubation, and when someone does manifest symptoms, its pretty hard to miss, unlike with Covid.
Not saying this is good news but unless we hear of some major mutation I'm not stocking up on canned food just yet. But who knows I guess. From what I'm reading the WHO is being hampered by logistical challenges and as the article touches on, part of the country being controlled by a rebel faction isn't helping.
NearABE@reddit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_epidemic
The West African strain spread and continued to expand steadily. The epidemic then stopped growing larger almost immediately when the US army moved in a mobile tent hospital brigade. No US Army personal were involved in treating patients. They just built pop up hospitals with double the bed capacity needed at any one district.
To Obama’s discredit this easy action was not taken when the case rate was around 1,000. Nothing is ever certain but with another year of inaction the case rate could have risen to 100,000 instead of the 10,000 where it leveled off.
The reported 25% case fatality rate is likely worse than the West African 40%. It is counter intuitive but high fatality ebola tends to wipe itself out. Early ebola-Zaire strains had around 90% fatality.
The longer a virus lingers in an animal population the more likely it is to adapt to it. The mutations will tend toward increased spread because of natural selection.
The vast majority of things that we talk about on r/collapse are preventable. The collapse occurs because the needed mitigation is not implemented. There is also a cumulative effect of multiple small failures adding up to make a broader systemic failure. Any given virus strain might not be the one that goes pandemic. However, evidence that the international response is weak is still evidence that the next pandemic is coming. Our biohazard threat readiness is deteriorating rather than improving.
BlueGumShoe@reddit
Yeah I agree with most of this but I'd still be more worried about H5n1 mutating than Ebola. Mutation is not an automatic upgrade button. Most variants just in general are either neutral or failures. Yes selection favors something which spreads more but for ebola thats actually a pretty big leap.
Transmission has a lot to do with what cells a virus targets after all. And Ebola does not target respiratory cells afaik. The reason scientists were and are worried about bird flu is because h5n1 targets the lower respiratory tract which makes it lethal, but it could mutate to target the upper tract, making it more transmissible. That would probably make it less deadly but would still be really bad for pandemic response. Ebola mutating to change its transmission path would mean it also completely changed its underlying architecture which is sometime people ignore. Viruses mutate a lot but completely changing how they operate is something that I dont think has ever even been recorded. Again as far as I know, I'm just some guy.
But on top of that, it would have to evolve different behavior during incubation. When it hits its bad but during incubation it is not contagious. So its got multiple things that would have to happen to be a global pandemic, and neither one are right on the edge of happening despite circulation in animal populations. If you want to convince me our overall readiness level is bad youre preaching to choir believe me. I'm not optimistic about all this but from the data that I can see this outbreak so far barely breaks into the top ten in terms of deaths. Thats callous to point out I guess just saying this is not unprecedented in the way that covid was.
NearABE@reddit
H5n1 definitely a higher short term risk.
capt_fantastic@reddit
“Before the second Trump administration, USAID would have been on the ground,” said one public health expert.
what a clusterfcuk.
AlwayInForwardMotion@reddit
Yep. This is exactly what they wanted to happen.
Reasonable-Teach7155@reddit
Somehow this will be blamed on Trump lol
Informal-Sea-6047@reddit
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ebola-drc-congo
Reasonable-Teach7155@reddit
🤣🤣 American taxpayers have zero responsibility, here. DRC is not our problem. Never has been, never will be and there's plenty of other countries who can spend their taxpayers money. Like France, the ones who colonized it in the first place. But yeah Trump 🤣🤣
Informal-Sea-6047@reddit
Bot.
Reasonable-Teach7155@reddit
Cope
Correctthecorrectors@reddit
how do you plan on coping when people put themselves in self imposed lockdown because 50% of the people around you are internally bleeding to death from a virus that liquifies your organs?
Informal-Sea-6047@reddit
😅🤣😂
daywreckerdiesel@reddit
That's a great point man, it's a good thing viruses respect national boundaries or we could be in real trouble!
Reasonable-Teach7155@reddit
We're finally getting a grip on our borders. If the rest of the world did the same we'd be in business.
daywreckerdiesel@reddit
Yeah dude remember how Covid didn't spread to countries with strong immigration laws lmao
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a nationalist is also a moron.
Monsur_Ausuhnom@reddit
We didn't figure it out last time and will likely do the same thing a second time whether with this or another disease, only to have the same outcome.
Perhaps, repeating the same mistakes and not learning from them is humanity's achievement? We do seem to ace how to control and be more efficient at annihilating ourselves and everything else in the process though. That seems to be one what that is learned more effectively.
Someones_Dream_Guy@reddit
Gentlemen, we're about to get epic COVID-19+hantavirus+Ebola crossover arc.
m0nk37@reddit
No we arent. This will pass. This stuff happens regularly. If it passes 10k in a couple days then worry. Not 60 in a few weeks.
HeathenAF@reddit
When a simple cough can see you shart your entire insides out of every orifice?
Someones_Dream_Guy@reddit
Yep.
Aurelar@reddit
Do I need to add airborne ebola to my bingo card?
Vdasun-8412@reddit
O capaz..huir.
Mientras puedas yo..
No lo se..
ThnkWthPrtls@reddit
Hey? Ebola? Maybe read the fucking room, ok? Kinda have enough shit going on right now, wait your turn
TheExpressUS@reddit (OP)
The World Health Organization director-general openly worried Tuesday over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo, where authorities reported a sharp increase in suspected deaths — to at least 131 — and over 500 suspected cases.
Full story here
ghola5@reddit
Let me guess, Democrats are also flying in migrants from Congo into every major metropolitan city in the US
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RIPFauna_itwasgreat@reddit
Let me guess. You don't think at all and you just repeat what pedophiles are telling you as if this is the truth
sushisection@reddit
what do democrats have to do with this? it is this nation's ethos to take in refugees and migrant labor.
rule34isalwaystrue@reddit
The Democrat aren't even in the white house you fucking grifter.
kojengi_de_miercoles@reddit
Sounds like a maga lie, honestly.
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DaisyHotCakes@reddit
Shit those deaths and suspected cases jumped A LOT since I read about it yesterday. The fact that COVID-19 has been in so many hosts with other viral infections vastly increases the chance of mutation of one or both viruses in the body. There was a big scare over a case of HIV who had Covid and had all kinds of weird mutated viruses in her body because her immune system was getting attacked by the hiv.
Ebola is what got me interested in virology and retro viruses. It is a breathtakingly horrible way to die and if it becomes more transmissible we are seriously fucked.
w3stoner@reddit
It’s the speed it kills at that needs to slow down, it’s already very transmissible. It tends to spread and kill so fast it burns out the population before it can spread
codybrown183@reddit
Meh. The world needs a mass casualty event to try and reset at this point.
Fingers crossed more liberals survive than conservatives.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
Hey congratulations! You've won!!!
What have you won you ask?
You've won: Falling For Partisan Propaganda Used To Divide Regular Working Class People Imto Sociopathic Heirachal Monsters Instead Of Of Class Conscious Humans!!!
Congratulations you are a proud pawn of the State and Elite.
mahalovalhalla@reddit
Pretty sad to see the state of people's minds in here, isn't it? Imagine saying something like "the world needs a mass casualty event", and then a bunch of people upvote it. They don't see or understand how partisan rhetoric has got them as cruel and shitty as the people they claim to be raging against. Sad people. And it makes me sad, for people.
codybrown183@reddit
Lol has nothing to do with politics. The world is overpopulated and its not sustainable as it is.
The best way to reset would be a mass casualty event.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
The comment I was responding to.
seraph741@reddit
And from the commentators I've seen echoing these sentiments, it seems like they normally have better critical thinking skills and can realize/understand what you're explaining. That's why it's extra sad, that disillusionment overrides their critical thinking.
EchoesOfEleos@reddit
I agree.
What's strange is I DO believe systems have to collapse because they are so entrenched into everything for anything new to start. Which is tragic, and should me minimized at all costs.
But I think acknowledging that reality, and straight up wishing for the torturous death of "insert group of people here" is so horrifying its hard to bare.
NearABE@reddit
Urban areas are likely to get hit harder.
Willing-Dog6463@reddit
Gendo Ikari is that you?
codybrown183@reddit
Idk who that is.
Im just your average wage slave like everyone else. That thinks giving more than half your life to the work force for basic necessities is fucked up.
Willing-Dog6463@reddit
It’s from an old-ass anime, some dude wants to speed up evolution which’ll reduce humanity to a great ocean. This is to save the planet from us
grimsb@reddit
If it makes it into the US, I hope it visits the people who gutted the CDC first. 🙏
VermicelliNew2784@reddit
They sent the American doctor to a Berlin hospital instead. This is two outbreak patients (a hantavirus case was also there) being sent to Charite Berlin within a month. I have stayed at that hospital for two weeks and I can tell you that I wouldn’t be surprised if Berlin ended up with an outbreak of both within the next month or two.
SurgeFlamingo@reddit
It won’t but we can hope.
Neumaschine@reddit
It still won't kill RFK Jr., though because he's already the walking dead.
Admirable_Advice8831@reddit
The *Undead Kennedy!
imalostkitty-ox0@reddit
You get my last award in the bank for a punk band reference
Admirable_Advice8831@reddit
What's the difference between punk and the british queen? r/punksnotdead
Neumaschine@reddit
Oh snap! Just like a zombie limb.
rule34isalwaystrue@reddit
One parasite more or less isn't gonna harm him.
Neumaschine@reddit
It might even make Rotten F'ing Kennedy stronger?!?!
Substantial-Spare501@reddit
Phew it’s a good thing the country I live in is no longer a part of WHO because then we would be worried
Some_Drink_5375@reddit
this is pretty scary. if you want to get even more scared, read THE HOT ZONE, about the real ebola scare right here in the USA.
Smallsey@reddit
If you want something factual and real life not some fiction horror, read Spillover.
No_Aesthetic@reddit
No, read Preston's much superior Ebola book, Crisis in the Red Zone. There is a lot of misinformation in the Hot Zone that he regretted afterwards not knowing how big the book was going to be. He does his best to correct this misinformation and tell real stories in Crisis.
puppeteerspoptarts@reddit
I wasn’t aware of Crisis in the Red Zone. I’ll have to check it out. I love The Hot Zone, but it’s super dramatized
No_Aesthetic@reddit
It's not just super dramatized, it's super wrong. Preston totally corrected course in Crisis, but for the fact he still snuck in a reference to Nipah as being the true liquefying virus. It isn't, but I guess he couldn't resist. Still, Preston is one of my favorite writers, so I can't be too bothered about it.
Grinagh@reddit
Panic in Level 4 is pretty good too
klaschr@reddit
Crisis in the Red Zone was written as an article two years before Hot Zone was published, lolwut?
AssistantPretend8287@reddit
Toilet Paper Time 😞...
TanteJu5@reddit
RFK:"Vitamin C and enough exposure to the sun is enough to cure this."
ememtiny@reddit
Don't forget the essential oils!
TheBroWhoLifts@reddit
VI-i-tuh-uh-mi-in C-ee
Yeah, I fucking made fun of him for how he talks. Fuck that guy.
dontletthestankout@reddit
Throw on your jeans, do some pull ups and hit the cold plunge you'll be fihe
TanteJu5@reddit
Best advice
Sufficient-Bid1279@reddit
Let Ebola wipe out Republicans/conservatives first please
NearABE@reddit
Epidemics tend to hit urban areas hard.
Admirable_Advice8831@reddit
No shortage of MAGA morons in urban areas these days either tho
sweetgreatpotato@reddit
catlaxative@reddit
ToasterBathTester@reddit
Don’t worry, everyone RFK Junior is gonna save us
TheGisbon@reddit
Is he gonna eat it?
sarcasticbaldguy@reddit
Shit, I don't speak Drowning Chainsaw. I'll never understand him.
matt95110@reddit
Have you tried working out in jeans?
ToasterBathTester@reddit
Only eat raccoon penis soaked in ivermectin
TransitJohn@reddit
Yeah! Every time after I snort cocaine off of toilet seats
space_manatee@reddit
"You just need to eat 16oz of raw meat every day and ebola wont touch you"
possibly_oblivious@reddit
Ebola ain't nothing for that thing
Valklingenberger@reddit
RFK is capable of absorbing and containing every form of parasite, bacteria, or virus, and to think any of us are allowed to have any of his hard earned germs that enter our beautiful country is just wrong and he will be taking what is rightfully his from you.
Void_of_a_Writer01@reddit
Good ol’ swiss-cheese brain who takes his family on vacation to amoeba-water, and I don’t even wanna know what other “experiments” he’s done with the roadkill. 😬
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/TheExpressUS:
The World Health Organization director-general openly worried Tuesday over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo, where authorities reported a sharp increase in suspected deaths — to at least 131 — and over 500 suspected cases.
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