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by Someone1234 4277 days ago
Honestly that sounds like a very constructive suggestion. However it might be a little bit too early for it given the few cases outside of Africa.

There's a thin line between sewing panic and providing the public with constructive information. If they released that kind of stuff right now, people would become super paranoid and expect an outbreak any day.

You'd see people going to the hospital with every single flu, cold, or similar that they have.

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It is very likely that thousands of people are going to die this year alone, because the elected officers that are supposed to protect them are more concerned with "preventing panics" than with implementing actual measures to contain and stop the epidemic.

We already have forced the moronic security theater of airport security to "protect" against a bunch of yahoos using box cutters as weapons. How worse could it get, anyways?