Talk:Diplomacy: The Future Map Game/@comment-82.132.212.152-20141013145459/@comment-4997457-20141013170820

You, my friend, are wrong. Low infection rates? Do you know how many things we touch off a day? How much peole sweat without realising it. One small bit of persperation on your hand from rubbing your forehead and then you touch money. Ebola can survive on surfaces, it isn't a parasite. Ifyou cough on somebody the saliva can spread Ebola. The infection rates double eery 14-20 days. With a suspected 20,000-30,000 incubation the disease and 100,000 by december (WHO and UN estimates) Look at how both in the US and Spain workers are undertrained at handling outbreaks. Two healthcare workers have got Ebola. But who did they come in contact with. Their first cough they didn't just presume they had Ebola, maybe they went shopping, into the densely packed city centres, maybe they went to their jobs filled with sick people unable to fight off infection who would mistake Ebola for their current flu or cold until they started extrenaly bleeding. The biggest threat to humanity right now isn't ISIS or Russia or even Ebola at the moment, it' humanitys confidence. Oh sure Ebola can never infect us, why do this why do that, it could neer infect multiple people why take those percautions! Humanities Ignorance and History's will to repeat itself will always exist. Over confidence and under-confidence (panic) are as deadly as eachother. Both have claimed millions of lives. Nature will always will, we arn't the stongest thing out there or the best most prepared like we like to think we are. Nature is, and she doesn't like being over populated. Nature has always culled the human race with diseases. Europe with the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) In the middle ages. Typhoid wiped out a 1/4 of Athens's population in the Classical Period. The Spanish Flu not even a hundred years ago killed upwards of 50-60 million worldwide 3% of the worlds population at the time. That was when there was very little travel due to the plane being not used for mass transport and the fact WWII had stopped most people taking a holiday. Human ignorance is not bliss, it is our worst enemy. Humanity will never learn from it's mistakes.Ignorance and over confidence and under-prederation is what we are currently witnessing. It will have it's toll in it's own time.