[radicaldreamer]

Yep, this is sneezing. Ebola is scary because it is one of the most contagious diseases.

But in any complex system, it's very hard to predict who will contract the disease and who won't. You can see similar scenarios play out after Chernobyl, where some people who were very close to the reactor which blew up where seemingly unaffected and lived long lives, while others who were relatively far away passed from radiation exposure or the subsequent cancers.

[searine]

> Ebola is scary because it is one of the most contagious diseases.

Ebola isn't particularly contagious. It has a R0 of ~2. Measles for example is 10.

[lyricaljoke]

Well sure, but that's a seriously high bar you're comparing it with. Measles is regarded as one of the most contagious diseases on earth, no?

[Fjolsvith]

Exactly, and how fatal is Measles?