Lol joking
But I'm taking the whole thing pretty serious. I'd rather look crazy now than look stupid if everything went bad.
I am too. I love how I've read that taking a dangerous level 4 one of the most deadly viruses known to mankind seriously is called "hysteria". I see comments from people on facebook comparing it to the flu and the media has overblown this, I guess some people don't like to cross bridges until they're burning? I don't know.
The CDC said that if it wasn't contained in west africa that we could be looking at 1.4 million cases by January.
Cases are doubling every 20 days we are at 20,000 right now (adjusted for unreported) with a 60-70some% death rate. So far we are at a 50% death rate in the US.
Granted we only have the two cases right now, but we've had two in two weeks and we aren't changing the way we do anything.
cdc's worst case scenario prediction has r0 at 3.7
theoretical numbers @ 3.7
Oct, 2014 - Infected: 33,701 Dead: 20,601
Nov, 2014 - Infected: 116,941 Dead: 71,486
Dec, 2014 - Infected: 405,786 Dead: 248,057
Jan, 2015 - Infected: 1,408,078 Dead: 860,758
Feb, 2015 - Infected: 4,886,029 Dead: 2,986,830
Mar, 2015 - Infected: 16,954,521 Dead: 10,364,299
last month it was around 2.5 theoretical numbers @ 2.5
Oct, 2014 - Infected: 26,457 Dead: 16,173
Nov, 2014 - Infected: 70,679 Dead: 43,206
Dec, 2014 - Infected: 188,818 Dead: 115,424
Jan, 2015 - Infected: 504,427 Dead: 308,356
Feb, 2015 - Infected: 1,347,577 Dead: 823,774
Mar, 2015 - Infected: 3,600,053 Dead: 2,200,712
One case has turned into two in 14 days. I don't know. I'm taking it serious. I don't think its something I'm going to catch out and about this week, but I have a number of cases within 100 miles of me where I've decided to just check out and I'm not going to leave my house.