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[–] oooooo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Imagine a mortality rate of 40% in a disease in your own country. That's not a trivial mortality rate.

According to wikipedia, this was the most widespread epidemic of the Ebola virus ever. And a significant percentage of those cases were from this outbreak. It's not like half of them happened a hundred years ago so the "all of history" claim is implicitly disingenuous. This outbreak was severe enough as to cause significant economic impact to the region.

Additionally, you can see from the graph here based on the wikipedia page numbers at the time that there was an early point where the rate of infection was growing exponentially: http://www.geert.io/exponential-growth-of-ebola.html. It's exactly because people sounded alarm bells and started working hard to contain the outbreak that the disease didn't spread further.

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[–] CommonSense ago 

I'm not saying it's not tragic. I'm saying that, in 2014, we were having a picture painted about ebola that made it sound like the whole world was at risk. even the countries that were most effected only lost a few thousand people. that's not an epidemic. shit, that's not even influenza.