... YOU DO NOT HAVE EBOLA*.
Disclaimer ... I tried to make the flow chart a little more SFW, as the kids say, so don't go reporting me for foul language. That brush feature in Microsoft Paint is supposed to serve as if it were the "bleep" button in an audio feature.
Now to address the *. If you follow the flow chart and you end up in the spot to call the CDC, well then ... I guess you *may* have Ebola. If you recently traveled from western Africa, you also *may* have Ebola. If you tend toward the scatological or urolagnial side of things from a fetish perspective AND you just recently explored that whole side of yourself with someone from western Africa or with Mr. Duncan himself, then you also *may* have Ebola. If you were on that plane that got held up in Newark because there was a vomiting person on board from western Africa, yep, you *may* have Ebola. If you are one of those handful of people who came into the closest contact with patient zero, including that lady who was complaining on the news that no one had brought her any food during her quarantine, then you *may* have Ebola (and, in her case, let's face it ... you are also not prepared for Ebola or any kind of apocalypse if you think that the world is going to bring you some food as it is ending).
So ... apologies for the faux-Foxworthy sound of that last paragraph, but I just wanted to be clear that there *are* a few sets of people where concern is warranted. But to everyone else who is already planning to call off work next week with "a touch of Ebola" ... that's not going to cut it. Also ... this is not the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. EVERYBODY knows that that happens in Atlanta and not Dallas. (For more information, there's a documentary about to start it's fifth season next weekend on AMC. I mean I think it's a documentary. Maybe it's a re-creation of actual events? Or I guess it might be fiction ... maybe? But regardless ... and SPOILER ALERT [avert your eyes now if you haven't seen the first few seasons] ... we are not all already infected with the Ebola virus like we all are with the zombie virus.)
Look ... I recognize that part of this rant serves as a reminder to me. After all, I will admit to sneezing in public a few years back, and apologizing for having "a touch of the swine flu"... you know, just to see folks' reaction. I will also admit to a strategy when flying on airplanes without assigned seating where I have been known to sit in the aisle seat with the barf bag out willing my face pale in hopes that I can keep the middle seat empty ... and so I probably *won't* be doing that when I fly twice in the next fortnight.
And I also want to be clear that I'm *not* saying that you *shouldn't* be alert to your surroundings and to follow the news. What I am saying though, is that we do not need to overwhelm the medical system with hysteria ... nor should we start sending people of a certain country of origin to camps ala WWII and the Japanese. Let's all be smart and follow the facts and be aware ... without causing mass panic.
Mmm kay? Thanks, bye!
THAT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WHICH I WAS SPEAKING:
http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/season-5-tease-the-walking-dead
LET'S NOT START SENDING FOLKS TO CAMP AGAIN (BEEN THERE, DONE THAT):
http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp
MY FLIGHT STRATEGY WAS FEATURED IN THE KICK OFF TO MY SHORT STORY:
http://capcognition.blogspot.com/2013/04/lorem-ipsum-aloysius-angelasia-archives_9.html
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