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Originally posted by TrashyNavy
Ebola IS airborne. The government needs to stop lying to people.
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omg no you just got on my bad side
NO. if ebola were airborne then the entire god damn continent of africa would be infected by now. do you know how much ebola virus is west africa right now? now remember that people who have the virus still have the capability to travel to other places. do you know how easily it would spread if it were airborne? like
person in west africa gets ebola -> travels 20 miles east to see family member -> family member gets ebola from them -> family member travels 50 miles east -> infects someone there -> and so on
and that way, the entire continent of africa would be infected VERY quickly, because if you go to a person's house and see them when you have an airborne disease on you it is VERY likely you will infect them. not only that, but if ebola were airborne, EVERYONE in west africa would have it by now because of how many people are spreading it. if there are 450,000 people infected right now (just a random guess), and they breathe as often as humans do, that would be an UNIMAGINABLE amount of viruses in the air, and there would be absolutely no way to contain it because people would have already gotten it and traveled away from the containment area. with the way ebola spreads now, it's still being contained much better than a lot of epidemics. do you know how fast and hard the flu epidemics spread? yeah, ebola doesn't have **** on that.
not only that, but there are MANY studies that show that it's not airborne. BY ACTUAL SCIENTISTS. WITH ACTUAL DEGREES IN SCIENCE. are you really claiming that you know better than people who have been studying this their entire lives just because "duhhhh da goverbnment is a lie!!!!!! duhhhh".
and if you really want damning evidence, this isn't even the first major ebola outbreak. africa has had several in places like sudan and the congo, and none of them have spread to every country in the world and killed us all yet and none even spread that much until this one which shows that ebola is a much more containable disease than a seriously airborne one.
do some research on how many people and how quickly got infected in the spanish flu pandemic and then say it's airborne. just try me. either that or shut up.