re: #3 Shiplord Kirel

Another defeat for the right. They must be getting completely demoralized. What happened to that martial law/cancelled election prediction of theirs?

Huh? Even those making the prediction can’t have believed it. That sort of thing is election-eve panic-mongering, not genuine fear…much less hope.

As to demoralized, nobody wants Ebola to go on a tear here. When it doesn’t, everybody is either unmoved (appropriately, since there was never any chance it would) or relieved.

There’s nothing surprising about having people who were feared to have Ebola turn out not to have it. Since the consequences of a false negative, as with Duncan, are much more serious than the consequences of a false positive, the system will now flag anything that just might be Ebola. There are many other diseases that produce symptoms consistent with Ebola in its and their early stages. We must expect that almost all those who are flagged as potentially ill with Ebola will in the end turn out not to have it. Better that, than the too casual system that was in place in Dallas earlier.

Most likely, there will be a handful of further real domestic cases, including maybe another one or two acquired here, and scores or hundreds of false alarms, before this finally winds down. But part of the reason that these numbers can be expected to be so very low is because there’s now signs of progress on the ground in Africa [the must-win continent], and because here, we have tightened our protocols and are more vigilant with respect to monitoring, and tracking contacts of, those who just possibly might have it.