How Soon to National Panic?

A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who cared for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has tested positive for the disease, Texas officials said Wednesday. Authorities were decontaminating the worker’s apartment complex and going door-to-door before dawn to inform neighbors about the situation.

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[O]fficials are monitoring 77 people who may have been exposed to the deadly virus.

  alJazeera

Does that include the people who were exposed to the people who were exposed?

Soon, we’ll all be wearing gloves and surgical masks like the Japanese and Koreans.

Yesterday, a neighbor said she asked a nurse at University of Columbia Medical Center what they were going to do if Ebola made an appearance there. The nurse responded, “We didn’t sign up for that.” I have no doubt there will be a shortage of medical personnel in this country if the virus becomes widely spread before an effective, plentiful vaccine can be put in place.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.